Their linear and angle encoders are built for use in automated machines and systems, particularly in machine tools. The company began as a metal etching factory founded in Berlin by Wilhelm Heidenhain in that manufactured templates, company plaques, product labels, and scales.
In Heidenhain invented the Metallur process. This lead-sulfide copying process made it possible for the first time to make exact copies of an original grating on a metal surface for industrial use. Johannes Heidenhain, a pupil of Otto Hahn, founded the present company in Traunreut. Its invention of the Diadur process enabled it to apply very fine structures of chromium on suitable substrates, such as glass.
The Diadur process was the basis in for adding optical position measuring devices for machine tools to the product program. These were followed in by photoelectrically scanned linear and angle encoders.
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