Company overview
Renishaw provides solutions for precision measurement and process control, additive manufacturing, position and motion control and industrial automation, as well as healthcare and scientific applications. Its encoder range covers high-speed absolute and incremental, linear and rotary optical encoders, enclosed optical encoders, interferometric laser encoders and magnetic encoders. The company was established in 1973 by David McMurtry and John Deer; its history page notes its first range of encoder readheads in 1989 and 5,000 employees worldwide in 2019. It also offers calibration and maintenance tools for robots.
| Founded | 1973 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | United Kingdom |
Products
- Optical encodersHigh-performance absolute and incremental, linear and rotary encoder systems.
- Enclosed optical encoders FORTiSEnclosed linear absolute encoders (FORTiS range launched 2021 per Renishaw's history page).
- Interferometric laser encodersInterferometry-based laser encoder solutions for OEM machine builders.
- Magnetic encodersRobust encoders for demanding environments with incremental and absolute measurement.
- Robot calibration toolsCalibration and maintenance tools to enhance the accuracy and productivity of robots.
