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Pickering Interfaces is a British electronic test and measurement company headquartered in Clacton-on-Sea, United Kingdom. Pickering designs, manufactures and markets a range of switching, simulation and cabling products in the LXI, PXI, and PCI platforms. These products are sold into the functional test, hardware-in-the-loop simulation (HILS) and design verifications markets.
| Company type | Private Company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Electronics |
| Founded | 1988 |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | United Kingdom, United States, China, and Europe |
| Products | PCI PXI LXI |
| Services | Switching Product |
| Website | pickeringtest |
Pickering is a privately owned company with design and manufacturing facilities in Clacton-on-Sea, UK and Třinec in the Czech Republic, together with additional company operated direct sales and support operations in the US, Germany, France, Sweden and China.
History
editPickering Interfaces was established in 1988 as a subsidiary of Pickering Electronics, a reed relay manufacturer founded in 1968 in Clacton-on-Sea, England.[1] The new company focused on modular signal switching for automated test equipment, debuting with the System 10 GPIB-controlled switch module.
During the 1990s, Pickering released successive systems, System 20 (IEEE-488), System 30 (VXI), and in 1998, its first PXI switch card, followed by PCI-based products in 2000 and the high-density BRIC PXI series in 2002. By 2005, the firm offered over 500 PXI modules and became an early supplier of LXI-certified switching products.
Pickering joined the PXI Systems Alliance in 1998.[2] Its original PXI modules from the late 1990s remain in production, with the current catalogue exceeding 3,500 PXI/PXIe variants.[3]
Between 2005 and 2009 the company expanded manufacturing from the UK to the Czech Republic and opened sales/support offices in the US, Europe, and Asia.[4] In 2025, it marked 20 years in Czechia, added a Penang, Malaysia site, grew its US presence, and acquired Mumfords Engineering to strengthen tooling capabilities.[5]
Product range
editPickering's primary products are in the PXI, LXI, USB and PCI platforms, specifically in switching, programmable resistors, attenuators, power supplies, basic instrumentation, software and cabling for these products.
Group structure
edit- Pickering Interfaces Ltd, Clacton-on-Sea, England.
- PIckering Interfaces Inc, Chelmsford, MA USA.
- Pickering Interfaces s.r.o., Třinec, Czech Republic.
- Pickering Interfaces GmbH, Haar-Salmdorf, Munich, Germany.
- Pickering Interfaces SARL, Noisel, Paris, France.
- Pickering Interfaces AB, Varberg, Sweden.
- 品英仪器（北京）有限公司, 北京, China.
References
edit- ^ "Pickering Interfaces continues its development and expands its production in Europe". Temcom. Retrieved 13 August 2025.
- ^ "Pickering spearheading PXI for 25 years". Temcom. Retrieved 13 August 2025.
- ^ "Pickering Interfaces celebrates 25 years in test, measurement, and automation systems". Everything RF. Retrieved 13 August 2025.
- ^ "Features". Control Engineering Europe. Retrieved 13 August 2025.
- ^ "Pickering Interfaces reflects on recent switching, simulation milestones & innovation highlights". Industrial News. Retrieved 13 August 2025.