Technology for optical precision: The ZELL solution

ZELL workpiece carriers for optical components combine mechanical precision with functional component protection:

• 🧷 Form-fit, stress-free fixation - no surface deformation or contact marks
• 🧼 Washable, chemical-resistant materials - e.g. stainless steel and glass bead-reinforced plastics
• 🧊 Low-particle design - suitable for cleanrooms
• 🧩 Modular design - compatible with robotics, palletizing systems, transfer systems
• 🔍 Optional traceability - via engraving, DMC or RFID

The carriers are designed so that they remain in the same system between CNC machining, cleaning, optical inspection and final assembly - this reduces handling errors, saves set-up time and ensures process consistency.

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🔭 Typical areas of application for workpiece carriers in optics production

The range of applications for workpiece carriers for optical components is diverse. Examples:

📌 Production of lens carriers and aperture modules
- protection of sensitive inner edges, precise centering for rotationally symmetrical parts

📌 Laser optics components (e.g. mirror holders, alignment bodies, beam shapers)
- fixed for CNC and robot-assisted cleaning, no contamination of critical surfaces

📌 Miniature optomechanics and fiber optic systems
- individual inclusion of micromechanical components in series production

📌 Medical sensor optics
- process-stable, cleanroom-compatible, traceable - ideal for validated production environments

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📈 Advantages for production managers, quality assurance and purchasing

✅ Less waste & rework
- sensitive surfaces remain untouched, set-up and handling errors are minimized

✅ Continuous material flow
- one carrier from raw part to processing and packaging

✅ Cleanable & durable
- >500 cleaning processes documented, resistant to alkaline and alcoholic media

✅ Compatible with automation technology
- pick-and-place-capable, stackable, suitable for grippers

✅ Standardized or individual solutions
- Series-capable platforms or precisely adapted special shots

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🧾 Conclusion: Workpiece carriers for optical components - component protection with a system

The production of optical components requires far more than just precise machines: Only with the right workpiece carrier can consistent quality be ensured from the first processing step to the final inspection.

ZELL workpiece carriers for optical components are specially developed for this purpose - with a focus on precise pick-up, reliable transfer, surface-friendly fixing and absolute cleanability.

They create the basis for automated, traceable and error-free production processes - in laser technology, photonics, sensor technology and medical technology.

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