Robotics Engineering for Electronics Manufacturing and Test

Bounded work around one board or device family and one station: test-fixture loading and sorting, force-limited connector insertion, ESD-aware nests and grippers, camera and lighting studies, and bench rigs for repetitive device checks. Product design sits on Product Manufacturing, SMT lines on Manufacturing, network equipment on Telecom, regulated devices on Medical Devices; wafer and cleanroom work is not offered at all.

No. We automate how boards reach, seat in and leave your fixture, and we start the test through the interface your tester documents. Writing or changing the test programme, setting limits, judging coverage and approving fixture-plate or probe changes stay with your test engineers. A trial only counts if those results are unchanged against manual loading on the same boards, so we record both sets side by side.

We design to the ESD control plan and IPC class you give us, choosing materials, grounding paths and contact points to suit, and we list every item your coordinator should verify. Acceptance is yours: your ESD procedure checks the equipment and your inspectors check handled boards. We hold no ESD, IPC or ISO certification, and we never describe a fixture as certified.

It can tell you whether the defect you care about is visible from a practical angle and lighting set-up on your boards, and how often a simple check flags good boards by mistake. We use known-good and known-defect boards and compare with your manual reference inspection. Choosing, programming and accepting a production AOI or X-ray system stays with you and your equipment supplier.

Rarely. Outline, thickness, warp, tall components and connector positions change between variants and revisions, so most families need their own nest inserts or finger sets. We test the variants you name, time each changeover and write down how a new revision is added, so you can see whether variety is eating the benefit. Sometimes a well-made manual jig per variant is the better answer.

You do. The first enquiry needs none of it. When work begins we ask for the minimum, often a board outline, keep-out zones and test-point locations, under an NDA that sets storage, access and deletion. Firmware images and device keys are treated as secrets and not kept after handoff. Rig code and drawings made for you are listed separately from Nestack's own background tools.

Yes, when the work is bounded, for example a loading aid for one tester or a device-test rig for one product. Tell us the skills, the dates and the access your site allows. We propose engineers with confirmed availability, you interview them, and they follow your ESD induction and change control. They add design and build capacity; test limits, release and quality decisions remain with your staff.

The number of variants and connectors, boards consumed in trials, tester access, ESD materials, instruments and site days usually matter more than the mechanism itself. At the end you hold the drawings, code, interface specification, run logs including failures, maintenance checks and a written recommendation to adopt, revise or stop. Extra stations, spares and repairs are agreed as separate work.