ams OSRAM alternatives

ams OSRAM is a global light and sensor group headquartered in Premstätten, near Graz, with a co-headquarters in Munich and a listing on the SIX Swiss Exchange. Formed in 2020 from ams and OSRAM, it employs around 18,500 people — 5,000 of them engineers — reported 2025 revenue of €3.3 billion, and serves more than 20,000 customers. A buyer looking beyond one broad sensing portfolio can split the requirement four ways. August Steinmeyer is pure mechanical precision: high-precision ball screws, all made in Albstadt by a private German company founded in 1920, supplying medical technology, aerospace, robotics and space applications. Baraja narrows the sensing question to a single technology: Spectrum-Scan LiDAR built specifically for self-driving vehicles, developed in Sydney by a team of over 100 with offices in San Francisco and Shanghai. Baumüller supplies the motion that sensors direct — electric drive and automation systems, including servo motors and drives, from a privately held Nuremberg group of around 1,900 employees with more than 40 branches worldwide. CKD Corporation covers end-of-arm hardware: the Japanese company's filed lines include robot hands, grippers and vacuum components within a wider factory-automation range, and it is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market with 4,641 employees. Take Baraja for vehicle LiDAR focus, Baumüller for drives, CKD for handling components, Steinmeyer for precision mechanics.

Alternatives to ams OSRAM

August Steinmeyer

August Steinmeyer GmbH & Co. KG is a German manufacturer of high-precision ball screws, based in Albstadt, Baden-Württemberg, where all production takes place.

Baraja

Baraja is an Australian deep technology company that has reinvented LiDAR for self-driving vehicles with its patented Spectrum-Scan platform.

Baumüller

Baumüller is a German manufacturer of electric drive and automation systems, headquartered in Nuremberg, whose history in electric drive technology reaches back to 1930.

CKD Corporation

CKD Corporation is a Japanese automation company established in April 1943 and headquartered in Komaki, Aichi, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market and the Nagoya Stock Exchange Premier Market.

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