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FTP Engineering

Project type: Robotic Test Integration - High DUT count and very high cycling of button pushing
Client type: large corporate OEM

A button design flaw found in a shipping product could seriously compromise the functionality of public safety communications network. This flaw constituted a product recall risk, and the device manufacturing was paused. However, if thirty devices were button on/off cycled 500,000 times each without failure, management would conclude that a recall was not necessary and device manufacturing could resume. In less than one week, FTP designed fixtures, coordinated fixture manufacturing, programmed robots, and validated test fixture functionality. Six robots, each with five devices under test (DUT), ran simultaneously, including one robot and its five DUTs that operated in a 40 C temperature chamber. A total of 15 million button on/off cycles were completed in four days. All DUTs passed, therefore a product recall was deemed unnecessary and device manufacturing resumed.

IAI catalog picture
IAI Tabletop three axis robot
Fixture, actuators, and DUTs fit to robot
Fixture, actuators, and DUTs fit to robot
Teach robot positions
Teach robot positions
Labview GUI to robot positions
Labview GUI to robot positions
Actuators pushing DUT buttons
Actuators pushing DUT buttons
Perl script
Perl script to repeat button pushes