idt
instrument design technology
Beamline Engineering Excellence
Assembly & Testing
IDT use a wide range of external suppliers for the supply of the highest quality machined components and vacuum vessels. These suppliers are compliant with our approved suppliers list and are continuously reviewed to ensure the highest possible quality levels are maintained. The UK is uniquely placed with very high quality precision engineering machine shops supplying Airbus, Rolls Royce Aerospace, BAE Systems plus the majority of the worlds Formula 1 teams. IDT make extensive use of this network.
We have vigorously invested in in-
Our facilities include:-
- Extensive Class 10000 clean assembly areas for construction and testing of ultra high vacuum components and assemblies.
- UHV cleaning, including ultrasonic cleaning, rinse and bake facilities plus two bake-
out rigs fitted with MKS RGA heads (0- 200amu). - Leak detector Leybold UL200.
- Two Edwards turbo-
scroll pumping carts. - Two large 3 tonne granite inspection bench and two anti-
vibration Newport breadboard mounting tables for precision metrology testing. - Three Newport XPS stepper & DC servo motor control test rig for motion control testing
(featuring standard stepper motor and micro-
stepping control). - Two Newport laser autocollimator for dynamic measurement with µrad (0.2 arcsec) resolution.
- Wyler inclinometers & Leica Auto level with parallel plate micrometer.
- Rank Taylor Hobson micro-
alignment telescope. - Custom laser quad diode measurement hardware for full characterisation of scanning DCM systems.
- Portable CMM Faro arm & Delcam Power Inspect software.
- One tri-
axial and two seismic single axis PCB Piezotronics accellerometers
