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Piguet
Frères & Cie SA
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Flexible
microtechnologies for ultra-hard materials
 Piguet
Frères has been developing, for over 115 years, a pool
of competences for machining, manufacturing as well as for
assembling components and microtechnical subsets of
millimetre-length size, intended for the medical, the
instrumentation and the metrology fields.
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A
partnership from the earlier stage of design
Piguet Frères runs its own office of development and positions
itself like a privileged partner of its customers, from the early
stage of design. Its constant challenge is to create a relation of
confidence while bringing on its side the thorough knowledge of
forty collaborators in microtechnic, difficult assembly and hard
material machining. To control the follow-up of more than 1500
different components which circulate permanently in the workshops,
Piguet Frères equipped itself with a powerful CAM. It lays out in
addition of excellent data-processing tools (CAO/FAO). |
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Ultrasonic
heart scanning probe
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Machining
of difficult and ultra-hard materials
Specialized in the machining of difficult and hardened materials,
the company has modern and powerful machine facilities, among
others: 6 x 5-axis machines (1.3 G of axe's acceleration!). Piguet
Frères is able to machine metals (titanium, medical stainless
steel, Arcap, tungsten...), plastics with high characteristics (Peek,
Kel'F, Delrin...), as well as ultra-hard materials: corundum (ruby,
sapphire...), ceramics (alumina, zirconia, silicon nitride...) and
carbides (tungsten carbides...), whose high characteristics are
often essential. It also has a great experience in the correction
and the cylindrical or plane polishing of these ultra-hard
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Instrument
for ophthalmology.
Titanium
part, machined in the mass.
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Assembly
and control of subsets
Authentic development pole, the manufacture, the assembly and the
control of microtechnical subsets involve Piguet Frères in many
projects : range of ultrasonic scanning probes, cerebrospinal
fluid pressure regulation valves, equipment for ophthalmology,
electrodes for oil prospecting, components for wiring with optical
fibre...
Apparently unrelated application areas include in fact functional
features that may be the nucleus of other customer-specific
developments.
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Cerebrospinal
fluid pressure
regulation
valve, biocompatible ruby.
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http://www.piguet-freres.ch
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