Automation Research Group

Production Facilities

Built in-house.

Where your product gets built, tested, and validated before it goes to volume.

Every ARG product is assembled, inspected, and validated on our floor before it reaches our production facilities in Pennsylvania and Guadalajara. DVT and PVT happen here — the same fixtures, the same team.

ARG's Neoden pick-and-place SMT line loading a PCB panel

PCBA Assembly

Surface mount through hand-build.

  • Automated stencil printer
  • Pick & place — full SMT line
  • Reflow oven
  • Manual station for prototypes and mixed assemblies
  • Hot-air rework and precision soldering / desoldering
  • In-house programming — JTAG, SWD, USB and UART production flash tools
In-house CNC mill machining an aluminium part at ARG

Mechanical Shop

CNC to injection mould, in-house.

  • Carbide CNC mill — aluminium, plastics, and composite machining
  • FDM 3D printer — rapid plastic prototyping
  • SLA 3D printer — fine-detail resin parts
  • Laser cutter — sheet metal, acrylic, and composite panels
  • Sheet metal brake, forming, and finishing tools
  • Low-volume injection moulding with aluminium tooling
ARG electronics lab bench with oscilloscopes, DMMs, and bench instruments

Test & Measurement

Lab-grade bench instruments.

  • Sigilent SDS5104X — 1GHz / 5GSa/s 4-ch mixed-signal oscilloscope + 16-ch logic analyser
  • Sigilent SDG6052X — 500MHz arbitrary waveform generator
  • Sigilent SSA3032X — 9kHz to 3.2GHz spectrum analyser
  • DC bench power supplies, precision DMMs, and LCR meter
  • Environmental and stress testing capability
A board under the stereo microscope for solder-joint inspection at ARG

Quality Control

Every board, every build.

  • Digital and stereo microscope for solder joint inspection
  • Automated optical inspection (AOI) capability
  • First Article Inspection (FAI) at every revision change
  • Component traceability — lot codes, date codes, and AVL management
  • Non-conformance and corrective action process on all production builds
  • Pass/fail logging with serial number traceability

From This Floor to Volume

In-house validation. Production-ready output.

1

In-House DVT

First builds, rapid iteration, engineering oversight on every board. Design issues caught in hours, not weeks.

2

In-House PVT

Production process validated here — assembly yield, test coverage, calibration, and packaging confirmed before handoff.

3

Volume Manufacturing

ARG facilities in Pennsylvania and Guadalajara. Same fixtures, same test, same standards — at scale.

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