Commercial Automation Systems.
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
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