Robotics Engineering for Automotive Suppliers and Workshops

Engineering around one part family at a tier supplier or workshop: an assembly-assist fixture, a kitting aid, a single-station leak or functional bench, an inspection sensor mount, or an EV module handling fixture. Each starts offline on your sample parts before a supervised trial. Vehicle autonomy, ADAS, homologation, type-approval testing, live high-voltage work and OEM line commissioning are not offered; factory-wide automation sits on our Manufacturing page.

Not from this page. Multi-station lines, robot cells, conveyors and plant controls are factory automation and belong to the Manufacturing page, and placing a manipulator in your cell is integrator work. Here we design and prove the fixture, nest, sensor mount or test sequence a cell will later need, and document its interfaces, mass and hazards so your integrator can incorporate it.

That decision stays with your quality team and your customer. We build to your test specification and present repeatability, false-call and escape data for your quality function to judge within its PFMEA and PPAP submission. A bench repeatable on masters is not a production-approved station, and agreement with your CMM on a sample is not a measurement-system approval. We hold no IATF 16949 registration.

On handling fixtures and bench adaptors for one module geometry, using dummy masses or de-energised modules you have cleared. The fixture respects the orientation, vents, coolant joints and cell spacing your module maker specifies, and retention is tested at rated load and after simulated power loss. Energised pack handling, cell work, thermal testing and any AIS-038, AIS-156 or UN conformity test stay with your high-voltage team and test agency.

Against a baseline recorded at the same station over representative shifts, not a single demonstration. We report time per part including fetch and changeover, escapes caught, false-reject and false-accept rates against your reference method, interventions and recovery time, wear and recalibration frequency, and exposure scores. Results apply to the part family, plant and operators tested; another part needs its own trial.

We rehearse it before the trial. The plan covers a mis-seated part, lost air, a sensor fault, a wrong variant, an open guard and a power cut, and names who stops the bench, who isolates, who clears the part and who authorises restart. Power returning never causes motion and nobody adjusts a powered rig without isolation. For battery modules, your high-voltage competent person approves recovery first.

You keep ownership of your part drawings, specifications and traceability data; we hold them under agreed access, storage, retention and return terms and keep them off shared tools unless you permit it. Footage or logs that identify operators are personal data, so purpose, retention and erasure are agreed before capture. Project CAD, code and test records are editable deliverables; Nestack background tooling and third-party licences are listed separately.

Yes. Name the station, the deliverable and plant constraints such as shift pattern; we put forward profiles that are genuinely free and you interview them. Price is driven by part complexity, the test specification, instruments and masters, guarding, variant count, trial shifts and paperwork, not just machining. The closing pack holds drawings, bench data and its stated limits; spares and further stations are agreed separately.