Automated Imaging Systems
Prior’s OpenStand® platform is a flexible and fully customizable system suitable for optical microscopy and imaging. It is an ideal development platform for testing and proving novel optical techniques or imaging automation. OpenStand offers OEMs a cost-effective and fast route to prototyping, testing, and production, reducing the crucial time to market. With OpenStand you get a working system to start developing your application immediately. The system is modular so you can adapt and alter the hardware during your development phase, but any developed software is portable to new designs as all system mechanics use the same software development kit. This means you can develop your hardware and software in parallel without losing any functionality on the final production instrument.
Software development capability is not a requirement to use OpenStand: it’s compatible with all leading imaging software platforms including µManager, Visiview, and Inscoper. Learn more about the software compatibility here.
How it works
With OpenStand you get a whole system and full support from Prior’s expert team. The process starts with a consultative meeting to understand your application and how OpenStand could improve your system performance, or enable the realization of novel or correlative imaging methods.
Benefits of OpenStand customized solutions
Cost-efficient
With OpenStand you buy the exact configuration and components you need for your application, keeping your costs down.
Speed to market
OpenStand’s modular configuration enables fast prototyping for novel imaging techniques enabling shorter development cycles that can also evolve with your business requirements.
Easy automation
Choose the exact imaging components to suit your application from our vast portfolio of motorized and automated components.
Customized components
Specific requirements can be designed into your OpenStand by our in-house development team, without building a complete solution from scratch.
Expandable
An OpenStand system is an investment that grows with you: easily add new components when your needs change, or keep only the components you need as you transition to an OEM design.
Future proof
The software developed on OpenStand is portable and easily integrated with our innovative hardware command set.
With four base formats and hundreds of compatible components, you can select the right configuration for your application:
Wide range of applications
Life Sciences
- Confocal imaging
- Neuroscience and Electrophysiology
- Fluorescence imaging
- Cytology & pathology
- High content screening
Materials
- Metrology
- Inkjet
- Reflective optics
- Photovoltaic (PV)
- Diamond fly cutting
Semiconductor
- Hard drive testing
- Laser ablation
- Semiconductor wafers
- Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)
- Other automated inspection and vision-based applications
