For over 60 years, Buehler has been a leading manufacturer of scientific instruments and supplies for use in materials analysis. Buehler products are used throughout the world in manufacturing facilities, quality laboratories, and universities to analyze all types of materials, including:

- Ferrous and non ferrous metals
- Thermal spray coatings
- Printed Circuit Boards
- Fasteners
- Ceramics
- Composites
- Semiconductors
- Rocks
- Glasses
- Plastics

Companies use Buehler products to improve the material within their product, monitor production or incoming purchased material, do failure analysis, and perform basic materials research.

Buehler products fall into three categories:

- Sample preparation equipment for cutting, grinding and polishing specimen material (usually cross sectioning) prior to microstructural inspection

- Metallographic consumables for the sample preparation equipment including; cutoff wheels, saw blades, mounting compounds, grinding papers, polishing clothes and polishing suspensions.

- Inspection and testing equipment including microscopes, image analyzers, video equipment, and hardness testers

Buehler products use state of the art electronics, software and robotics to maximize their precision, productivity and reliability. Some of Buehler newest leading technology products include:

- The VANGUARD™ Fully Automatic Preparation System
- The PHOENIX ALPHA, BETA and VECTOR semi-automatic grinder/polisher and
    power head
- OMNIMET ENTERPRISE Image Analysis System
- The MPC2000 Integrated Circuit Cross Sectioning System