Partnering for Performance
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These case studies show how collaboration and innovation come together to produce measurable outcomes.
Case Study: Automation Strategy Cuts Cycle Time by 50% for AR Lens Testing
View/print as a PDF Primary Challenges & Breakthroughs Augmented reality (AR) lens manufacturing faces important testing challenges due to complex multi-parameter validation requirements and sequential testing dependencies. Cycle time constraints create critical bottlenecks for augmented reality optics, with comprehensive performance testing of high-precision AR lenses averaging 3-8 minutes per unit—directly impacting manufacturing throughput, workforce costs, and delivery schedules. A new Optikos LensCheck™ and advanced robotics strategy has achieved 50% reduction in cycle time while delivering substantial throughput gains during peak production cycles for a Fortune-500 client. High Volume Lens Assembly Overview The world of lens manufacturing is ruled by three important production parameters: quality, investment, and time. Within this matrix, the testing phase of optical systems...
Locating and Refueling Satellites
NASA worked with Optikos to develop a system to characterize visible wavelength lenses used in the RESTORE-L payload. Optikos delivered a unique quality measurement station designed to characterize the image quality of lens systems used on the NASA Restore-L Satellite Service Robots. These lenses act as the system’s “eyes” as it approaches and docks with a target satellite. To simulate docking conditions, a special Optikos LensCheck™ System projects resolution targets and measures the quality of lens imagery as the targets move from long to short range distances. The mission details can be found at this publically available link here. Have a project in mind? Get started here.
Case Study: Drug Discovery: Carterra® LSA Platform Accelerates Lifesaving Antibody Drug Development
View/print as a PDF Figure 1: Carterra LSA platform with proprietary HT-SPR technology enables a disruption in antibody discovery and development Carterra® is a leading provider of pharmaceutical R&D instruments that accelerate the discovery of novel therapeutic antibody candidates. Carterra’s founder and leaders of engineering and research contacted Optikos with a revolutionary idea that would dramatically improve the efficiency of antibody screening for pharmaceutical companies. Their vision was a fully integrated, screening and characterization platform that would combine their patented flow printing microfluidics with real-time high-throughput surface plasmon resonance (HT-SPR) optical detection. This system coupled with one-of-a-kind software capabilities, if successful, would deliver many times the data in a fraction of the time, with minuscule sample...
Measuring Folded Optics
Technology is constantly evolving, and as it does, the strain and need for cutting-edge optics grows. As manufacturers strive to make infrared cameras smaller and smaller, they often employ a folded optical system in which the optical axis of the front of the lens is not on the same line as the optical axis exiting the lens. This often leads to an image plane that is folded 90-degrees to the front of the lens. This fold can be in either the horizontal or vertical plane. Optikos developed the SD-800 and SD-900 image analyzers to easily access these folded image plane locations. The design challenges included implementing accurate rotation in two axes: one to rotate to four viewing positions (up, down,...
