We combine our optical expertise with years of experience in system engineering and machine building to make photonics technology reliable and ready for industrial production.

Discover our high-G motion project, where the goal was not simply to build a faster machine, but to create a platform capable of testing customer components under extremely high accelerations in a controlled, accurate and repeatable way.

Demcon high-tech systems is developing a passive de-orbiter: a lightweight, inflatable sail that increases drag at the end of a mission and allows satellites to decelerate in a controlled manner until they burn up in the atmosphere.

Electromagnetic actuators are an important actuation tool to achieve positioning precision on the nanometer scale. In this realm Lorentz actuators are the mostly used, due to their linear dependence between actuation force and applied current.

The performance of precision mechanisms can be limited by disturbing vibrations that are amplified at parasitic eigenfrequencies. Piezoelectric patches that are integrated into flexures have been shown to be a promising approach for actively suppressing parasitic modes.

Demcon Multiphysics enhances high-tech system performance with an advanced modeling framework, optimizing cable behavior under high forces and accelerations.

The phenomenon of thermal drift compromises precision as a result of thermal expansion or contraction of components, caused by small variations in temperature. Various mitigation strategies exist to minimise the effect of thermal drift on precision. Through modelling of thermal systems, the magnitude of thermal drift and the effectiveness of mitigation strategies can be predicted, using for example the lumped-element method (LEM) or the finite-element method (FEM).

TNO and Demcon have designed a Laser Projection System and are now in the process of building and testing nine of these systems for the Very Large Telescope and the Extremely Large Telescope, both located in Chile. This article focuses on the integration, alignment and testing of this complex and sensitive optomechanical system.

Discover how modelling supports product design using the V-model, enabling efficient transitions between phases and optimizing system performance.

In this article, we present the model-based design steps for a high-performance vibration isolation system to support a metrology frame. During the design phase, several improvements were shown to increase the vibration isolation performance.

Autonomous robot for water‑pipe inspection. Detect leaks and defects with modular snake robotics and data‑driven diagnostics for smarter maintenance.

Despite storm Ciarán, nearly 40 professionals gathered at ASTRON during the DSPE Knowledge Day to explore challenges and innovations in cryogenic engineering.

Demcon and Carbyon jointly developed a prototype for capturing CO₂ from air, combining start-up innovation with engineering expertise.

We designed a BCDS for telescope laser systems, ensuring beam quality, pointing stability and reliability under demanding thermal and mechanical conditions.