Polytec is actively and continuously collaborating with research institutes worldwide, also supporting and sponsoring interesting fields of research.
Fraunhofer Vision Alliance, joined by Polytec in 2011, is a research network for industrial quality insurance. Automatic image processing and machine vision are basic activities of the Vision institutes.
The Institute of Applied Optics at the Stuttgart University mainly focuses exploration of new optical measurement and sensor principles, supported by Polytec within an endowed professorship.
The Institute for Machine Tools and Industrial Management (iwb) of Technische Universität München is one of the major production technology institutes in Germany.
L'université "Karlsruhe School of Optics & Photonics" (KSOP) propose des programmes de cours innovants aux étudiants internationaux en impliquant des entreprises industrielles comme Polytec GmbH.
At the WKK Institute, ultrasonic testing is applied to solve specific material-related problems (ultrasonic joining, ultrasonic fatigue testing in the very high cycle fatigue regime, etc.) using Polytec’s laser measurement systems.