OpenStand

OpenStand

OpenStand

Product catalog summary
Introduction
OpenStand® by Prior Scientific offers a customizable platform for developing microscopes and optical systems tailored to specific application needs. It provides a cost-effective and rapid solution for creating prototypes, reducing development time and costs significantly.

Key Advantages
  • Rapid Prototyping: OpenStand allows for quick setup and development, enabling faster time to market.
  • Cost Efficiency: The system is more affordable compared to traditional methods, as it eliminates the need for purchasing separate components from various vendors.
  • Flexibility and Compatibility: Compatible with a wide range of optics, devices, and light sources, allowing for easy expansion and customization.
  • Software Integration: Features easy integration with Prior’s hardware command set, ensuring software developed on OpenStand is portable and future-proof.

Development Process
The development process begins with a consultative meeting to understand application needs. Prior Scientific provides full support from design to manufacture, ensuring seamless communication and flexibility for post-production changes.

Applications
  • Life Sciences: Cell culture, confocal imaging, neuroscience imaging, fluorescence imaging, cytology, and pathology.
  • Materials: Metrology, inkjet, reflective optics, photovoltaic, diamond fly cutting.
  • Semiconductor: Data storage, semiconductor wafers, MEMS, laser ablation.

Customization Options
OpenStand offers a wide range of components for customization, including motorized stages, joysticks, peripherals, nose pieces, objectives, autofocus systems, and various illumination options. This modular approach allows users to add only the necessary components, optimizing cost and functionality.

Conclusion
OpenStand provides a comprehensive and flexible solution for developing custom optical systems, backed by Prior Scientific’s extensive experience and expertise in the field. The platform supports a wide range of applications and offers significant advantages in terms of speed, cost, and customization.
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Custom microscopes and optical systems

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Fast-track solutions for your imaging needs Platform that evolves with your development work With OpenStand, you get a working system to start developing your application immediately, and adaptations can be made flexibly during your development phase. Prior Scientific systems use the same commands, offering a linear development route. With OpenStand, you can develop your software and hardware in parallel without losing any software development on the final productionready instrument. The most significant advantage of OpenStand is that we can get a working prototype to our customers fast. They...

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Straightforward approach to custom solutions From design to manufacture With OpenStand, you get a whole system and full support from Prior’s expert team. The process starts with a consultative meeting with our product managers to understand your application needs and how OpenStand could improve your system performance. Throughout the process, we work closely together to develop your system. Prior Scientific has the development and production under the same roof allowing continuous communication between different departments from the concept phase to prototype and finally to manufacture. Your...

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How to start with your customization Adding only the components you need for your application brings significant savings to the final instrument. Robert Haggart Senior Product Manager, Prior Scientific OpenStand and Prior’s extensive portfolio of OEM parts offers a fast-track to a prototype instrument. We work closely with you so we can provide an optimal solution to your technical and business demands. Extensive possibilities for custom instruments Tube lens enclosure (different tube lens options available) Large availability of components Filter wheels Customization starts with selecting the...

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prior.com linkedin.com/company/prior-scientific UNITED KINGDOM Prior Scientific Instruments Ltd. Units 3-4 Fielding Industrial Estate Wilbraham Road, Fulbourn Cambridge, CB21 5ET United Kingdom Email: [email protected] Phone: +44 (0)1223 881711 U.S.A. Prior Scientific, Inc. 80 Reservoir Park Drive Rockland, MA. 02370 U.S.A. Email: [email protected] Phone: 781.878.8442 GERMANY Prior Scientific Instruments GmbH Hans-Knöll-Str. 6, D-07745 Jena, Germany Email: [email protected] Phone: +49 (0)3641 675 650 JAPAN Prior Scientific KK Kayabacho 3rd Nagaoka Bldg 10F, 2-7-10, Nihonbashi Kayabacho, Chuo-Ku,...

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