Industrial Automation Solutions | Robotics Engineering & Automation.

Quartus has over 20 years of experience collaborating with Tier 1 OEMs in the semiconductor industry, with a record of supporting our client’s critical systems on an accelerated schedule. From prototyping, to NPI, to scaling systems to be production-ready, Quartus works as an extension of our client’s engineering team to provide cost-effective, efficient solutions that move innovation forward in this industry.

CAPABILITIES

Industrial Automation

  • Engineering Services
  • Value-Added Manufacturing
  • Product Development
  • …all while collaborating with our client’s established supply chain to identify areas for cost reduction while maintaining product performance.

Examples include:

  • Vision measurement
  • Vision automation
  • Custom bow and warp metrology instrumentation
  • Custom non contact metrology solutions
  • Prototype design and build
  • Value-added manufacturing
  • NPI design and fabrication
  • Scaling systems into production ready

Complete System Development

  • Requirements definition, systems engineering, instrument development, prototyping
  • Cross-discipline engineering teams leveraging mechanical, electrical, & software expertise

Electronic Control Systems

  • Domain expertise in control theory and developing application specific control algorithms
  • High speed implementation of control algorithms in firmware, FPGA, or on COTS PLC platforms
  • Complete electronics control system development including integration of custom PCBs and COTS components, programming, assembly, and test
Simulation of robotic arm motion

 

 

 

 

Industrial Automation Machine

 


CASE STUDY

Custom Industrial Automation

Quartus engineers designed, analyzed, built, and fully tested a spaceborne dual axis gimbal mechanism for high-throughput optical inter-satellite links. The effort focused on lowering manufacturing costs, minimizing complexity, and reducing risk for high volume manufacturing (targeted +1,000 per year) for a coarse pointing assembly and launch lock device for satellite constellation communication. The coarse pointing assembly was capable of providing precision line-of-sight articulation over a near-hemispherical field of regard, all while using mainly commercial off-the-shelf components.

  • Automation design using COTS PLCs and embedded systems
  • PLC and ladder logic programming ​
  • Wiring harnesses and electrical box installation
  • System build and testing
  • Machine vision
  • Visual servoing
  • Real-time processing
  • High speed placement
  • High precision alignment
  • Harsh environments