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Test & Inspection

Increase PRECISION and THROUGHPUT of your TEST, INSPECTION or CALIBRATION system!

Our products make a difference:

  • HIGH PRECISION and HIGH DYNAMIC MOTION systems
  • REALTIME SYNCHRONIZATION of MOTION and SENSORS or CAMERAS
  • 24Bit HIGH RESOLUTION, 1µs ANALOG INPUTS
  • MOTION, VISION, IO, SENSORS… in a single Realtime environment
  • SOPHISTICATED CONFIGURABLE RASTER and SPIRAL SCAN ROUTINES; AUTOFOCUS
  • BROAD RANGE of SCALABLE MOTION COMPONENTS and SYSTEMS
  • PACKAGE of advanced sophisticated ANALYTICS TOOLS

INSPECTION

Compact motion system with a small footprint

Meet the size of your setup and machine:

  • Small travel stages with 25mm up 150mm
  • Custom sizes and travel ranges to meet space restrictions
  • Motion platforms meet aggressive 2D flatness and 2D error requirements

High throughput at high precision:

  • High scan speed with ultra precision event triggering
  • Minimized move and settling time for point-to-point moves: Active Damping, advanced 100kHz Position loop closure, Advanced 50kHz Trajectory Generation, optimized Bandwidth
  • Superior sub nanometer position stability

FMotion systems for 24/7 operation

Linear- and rotary stages for your product as a series in the market:

  • Horizontal and vertical linear motion
  • Direct driven and spindle driven stages
  • Rotary stages for sample rotation with a high speed

Advanced calibration technologies:

  • NTGmotion motion systems are completely checked out, measured and calibrated
  • From simple single axes measurement and calibration of static motion errors to advanced complex multi axes multi work-point calibration and dynamic testing.

METROLOGY

Metrology for any kind of environment

NTGmotion systems can be prepared for different environments:

  • Standard laboratory environment (standard clean Labs)
  • Cleanroom environments (specify iso class)
  • Vacuum and ultra-high vacuum environments (specify pressure and materials) Completely checked out and tested motion systems in vacuum (we build our own vacuum chambers and perform particle measurements)
  • ESD critical applications
  • Aggressive 24/7 operation in industrial (dry environment)
  • Other environments (ask us)

Decades of experience in system integration startup and checkout:

  • We have decades of experience in building complete machines. We offer this experience to lower risk and speed up time to market
  • We offer our extensive measurement capabilities in the µm and sub-µm ranges In our temperature stabilized (±0,05K) Measurement facility
  • We don`t promise what we cannot prove.

Custom and complex systems for any kind of motion

Motion of the sample or the metrology device:

  • Flexible configurations for the metrology application
  • Multi axes fixed sensor, moving object configurations
  • Multi axes fixed object, moving sensor configurations (Gantries)
  • Multi axes moving sensor and moving object configurations (split axes)
  • Open frame configurations
  • Telescope Axes; Elevation axes…

High performance volumetric multi work-point error compensation:

  • Highly sophisticated measurement and calibration methods for volumetricerror compensation with different kinematic axes configurations
  • Automatic recalculation of compensation values if work-point location and/ or temperature changes

MICROSCOPY

Single to multi axes motion systems for larger objects

Small (light) to large (heavy) objects

  • Scalable high precision Linear and rotary axes for high loads
  • Ultra smooth motion
  • Integrated cooling system to remove thermal energy
  • Flexible configurations
  • Ultra precision options with integrated Laser Interferometer feedback

Special Telescope and Rotation Axes

  • Telescope Axes are designed for large vertical travel ranges (up to 1m) For small Sensors with a mass of x100kg up to large Sensors with a mass of >100kg
  • Wide Range of high precision rotary axes with large clear apertures from 10mm to 500mm diameter

Various mechanical options in a unique Planar structure

Direct driven, scalable 3 Axes Motion Platform

  • Open Frame XY 50mm by 50mm up to 750mm by 750mm workrange
  • Standard XY closed tabletop configurations
  • Integrated elevation axes; XYZ configuration (up to 75mm Z)
  • Integrated rotation axes; continuous n times 360° or limited rotation XYΘ configuration

Advantages

  • Superior Flatness over larger areas
  • Nanometer level step size and outstanding position stability
  • Fast move and settling

NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING (NDT)

MOTION SYSTEMS FOR VARIOUS TYPES OF NDT

NTGmotion are used for many concepts of testing:

  • Mechanical stress on the samples with outstanding results
  • Move the sensor and the sample

Various controller features possible:

  • Current and force control possible
  • Use force control to measure mechanical stress on samples

X-RAY Inspection:

  • Motion Stacks to manipulate substrate, source and detector for inline or offline X-RAY Inspection tools

Motion subsystems for CT applications in NDT

Motion of all devices that are involved in the CT application:

  • Very flexible motion systems for CT applications
  • High speed rotation of the sample
  • High precision standard axes with travel ranges up to 4.6m and high load capabilities up to 1t
  • Move the beam source and the detector for focus adjustment and when the sample size varies

Controller features to trigger the beam source:

  • Advanced predictive control for real time synchronization of beam source and angular position of the rotary stage for ultimate accuracy
  • Sophisticated 3D calibration for low 3D static errors

SENSOR TEST & CALIBRATION

  • Many SENSOR TESTERS rely on motion systems with a capability to

  • - precisely follow a given velocity profile or to
  • - precisely raster scan a given position pattern
  • - capture data from the Sensor precisely synchronized
  • with position, velocity and or acceleration of the axes

    • High Bandwidth direct driven rotary and linear axes are designedto follow aggressive move profiles
    • Sophisticated predictive control algorithms for ultra precise Event synchronization
    • Superior 100kHz closed position and velocity loop guarantees for high Servo stiffness, fast settling and high position stability

    Advantages:

    • Saving time without reducing quality
    • Complete systems including Sensor- mounting adapters and cable management system

    Sensor test and calibration for automotive industry

    Better testing results by high quality testing:

    • Excellent reference with high accuracy for sensor testing
    • Motion systems designed for 24/7 operation with very little downtime for maintenance; long lifetime

    Reliable measurement results:

    • NTGmotion systems are completely checked out and therefore easy to implement
    • Many standard and custom solutions

    Examples for sensor testing and calibration:

    • Radar sensors, Gyros, acceleration sensors, position- or velocity sensors, optical sensors..

    SURFACE SCANNING

    MOTION SUBSYSTEMS FOR MEASUREMENT PROCESSES

    NTGmotion provides complete motion subsystems for various measurement tasks:

    • Core of the system consisting of rotary and linear axes
    • Setup with granite bridge and plate
    • Stages mounted and aligned in the assembly to one complete unit with optional machine weldment
    • Solution out of one hand

    Advantages of motion subsystems:

    • Outstanding Flatness with mechanical bearings
    • 2D Accuracy 1µm with direct 2D feedback
    • Scalable sizes and a lot of standard options

    REDUCE SCAN TIME AND IMPROVE RESULTS

    Time saving advantage for designed system:

    • Measurement of rotational symmetric objects like a spherical lens can be done in a predesigned system with a lot of time saving
    • Sophisticated but easy to use Algorithms
    • Advanced commands for raster scanning and spiral motion
    • Multi axes systems move synchronous linear and rotary stages with an optimized beam path

    High accuracy in mechanics provides outstanding measurement results:

    • Very low geometrical errors provide the best measurement results in the complete multi axes system
    • Specifications for the measurement are defined in the work-point

    See us at AKL
    Aachen, 22. – 24. April 2026 at Booth 69

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    • NTGmotion GmbH & Co.KG
      Am Spielacker 20
      D 63571 Gelnhausen-Hailer

    • Central: +49 6051 600395 0
      Sales: +49 6051 600396 0
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