Driving progress: Micropositioning systems and optomechanical components
At OWIS, we turn our customers' pioneering ideas into reality and drive progress in high-tech industries. In doing so, we rely on our high-quality standard components, our outstanding engineering expertise and our ambition to push technological boundaries.
Following the idea of our founders, we now offer a modular system of optomechanical components and positioners that can be used to simplify and customize applications in industry and science.
Things get exciting when we combine our expertise and develop customer-specific systems based on our standard components. Typical application examples include laser processing, sensor technology, analytics, medical technology, semiconductor technology and clean room applications in general.
Lasers love OWIS. Not without reason. Our products and engineering services are characterized by precision, functionality, scalability, sophistication and reliability that you can rely on and that will take you further.
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Together we make groundbreaking ideas a reality.
With this vision, Rüdiger Ruh joined OWIS in 2018 – initially as Managing Director. The takeover then followed in 2021. Since January 1, 2021, he has been the Managing Partner of OWIS GmbH.
As an engineer (precision engineering) and with professional experience in development and management, he recognized the unique potential of the company. As a person who is enthusiastic about technology and can infect others with his enthusiasm, he revived the OWIS competencies and sharpened here and there.
Today, we at OWIS convince with a unique setup. Together we develop components and solutions for the challenging tasks of the high-tech industries and make groundbreaking ideas come true.
OWIS ExpertiseValued by industry and science
This fills us with pride. As a medium-sized, owner-managed company based in Staufen im Breisgau (Germany), we develop and manufacture high-precision products and solutions for industrial companies and scientific institutions worldwide.
Our strengths lie in laser technology. That is why we have been appreciated in measurement and testing technology, research and science, the semiconductor industry, biotechnology and medical technology, image processing and sensor technology, analytics and diagnostics for decades.
Thinking about tomorrow today
Photovoltaics, heat recovery, charging stations... We are constantly investing in renewable energies and energy efficiency. Since 2023, we have been part of the "Zielgerade 2030"-alliance to become climate neutral.
As a training company, we support young talents in their professional lives and qualify future technicians for their respective specialisms. We promote the health of our employees with programmes such as Hansefit and Jobbike.
Together we make groundbreaking ideas a reality: This is our mission statement, which guides us in our daily work, but also characterises our actions beyond that. We have also become a WIN Charta company in March 2024, committing us to achieving the goals we have set ourselves.
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OWIS guides you to your perfect solution
Perfect planning and perfect realization lead to your perfect solution. A simple calculation. That's why you can involve us as early as the planning phase of your project. Our engineers and designers are already at your side in the search for application-specific system solutions or cost-optimized OEM solutions.
In the realization phase, we assist you with the system configuration – from a mechanical, optical as well as electronical perspective. Naturally, you may also count on us after the implementation. We ensure support and provide assistance for possible developments of your application.
Manufactured to the highest quality and with the expertise of our long-standing employees, your perfect solution is created. Flexible and individual. Delivered on the agreed date. Perfect!
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Network and win
It's not quite that trivial - but we want to create the best conditions for this with our commitment. In line with our forward-looking strategy, we are increasingly contributing our knowledge and experience to research into new technologies and solutions in photonics. We have created capacities and spaces at OWIS for this purpose and want to share our results and findings in the network and enrich them with external impulses. We are proud to be a member company of the Photonics BW e.V., wvib Schwarzwald AG and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für angewandt Optik e.V (DGaO).
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