HARTING Integrated Solutions has expanded its backplane facility in Northampton. Investment in the production area includes a RoBAT robotic backplane tester and a second HARTING CPM2001/S semi-automatic press-in machine to add to the existing semi-automatic and fully automatic units.

These new units join surface-mount, pin-in-hole intrusive reflow and wave-soldering machines and four Terotest Lynx backplane testers. All this equipment is housed in a static-safe environment.

The new in-house PCB design facility has a Cadence Allegro CAD system to support custom designs as well as systems based on standard bus structures such as Compact PCI.