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For hardware teams

Your benches do the work. Your team makes the calls.

Amperatec plans, runs and analyzes your hardware tests around the clock.
More time for development, less time minding test benches.

How it works · Example: one night

Change it tonight. Know by morning.

Once connected, Amperatec tests every change with nobody standing by. The example shows one night with six cells on three test benches. Daytime works the same way.

Step 01: Connect

Set up once: pick the instrument, enter the address, check the connection. You never write commands from manuals.

Step 02: Approve

Describe the test in words. Amperatec checks it against your limits, you approve it and schedule it for the night.

Step 03: Overnight

Runs spread across every free test bench, with nobody standing by. If one deviates, Amperatec reruns it, even on another bench.

Step 04: In the morning

In the morning, the findings are ready. Want to know more? Ask in your own words and get a chart with its source.

Why Amperatec

Less standing by. More development.

You can already automate single tests today, with LabVIEW, TestStand, Python or an AI assistant. The time gets lost in between: starting runs, standing by, gathering results.

TodayScripts, Excel, standing by With AmperatecBenches do the work, your team makes the calls
When tests runIn campaigns, when a bench and an engineer are freeAfter every change, evenings and weekends too
Who stands byAn engineer who restarts every runNobody. Fixed limits always apply
AnalysisDays later, charts in ExcelThe next morning, compared with every earlier run
Questions about the dataHunting for files, copying them together in ExcelAsk, and get the answer with a chart and its source
Swapping instrumentsAdapt the script and test againThe same sequence on any free test bench
Team knowledgeLives in a colleague’s scriptEvery run stays findable, with DUT, firmware and test bench

Today

Scripts, Excel, standing by

  • When tests runIn campaigns, when a bench and an engineer are free
  • Who stands byAn engineer who restarts every run
  • AnalysisDays later, charts in Excel
  • Questions about the dataHunting for files, copying them together in Excel
  • Swapping instrumentsAdapt the script and test again
  • Team knowledgeLives in a colleague’s script

With Amperatec

Benches do the work, your team makes the calls

  • When tests runAfter every change, evenings and weekends too
  • Who stands byNobody. Fixed limits always apply
  • AnalysisThe next morning, compared with every earlier run
  • Questions about the dataAsk, and get the answer with a chart and its source
  • Swapping instrumentsThe same sequence on any free test bench
  • Team knowledgeEvery run stays findable, with DUT, firmware and test bench

Who it’s for

Built for hardware teams. From robotics to space.

  • Robotics and automation

  • Space and defence

  • E-mobility and drives

  • Energy and power electronics

  • Sensors and photonics

  • Engineering services and test labs

Safe without supervision

The AI plans and explains. Runs follow fixed rules.

  1. A person approves

    Every sequence and every new version, with name and time. Only what is approved can start.

  2. No AI at runtime

    Runs are executed by a fixed sequencer. The AI drafts, plans and explains, it never drives an instrument.

  3. Limits always apply

    A separate limit monitor shuts down within milliseconds. It does not replace emergency stops and contactors, those stay hardware.

  4. Every number with its source

    Answers come only from your runs, with run, DUT, firmware and test bench. One click leads to the raw data.

Instruments and integrators

You keep your instruments. We connect them.

Amperatec works with the instruments already in your lab, including different manufacturers in the same setup. We don't sell hardware. An integrator is the driver for an instrument or an instrument family. If one is missing for any of your instruments, we write it. All it takes is a documented interface.

  • Source · Power supply
  • Sink · Electronic load
  • Source and sink · Bidirectional power supply
  • Measure · Multimeter, data logger, power analyzer
  • Temperature control · Climate chamber
  • Switch · Multiplexer, relay card
  • Bus · CAN adapter
  • Insulation test · Insulation tester

Manufacturers we connect on request

Instruments from these manufacturers are common in battery and power electronics labs. We build the integrators for your instruments during setup at your test bench.

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Power supplies
EA Elektro-Automatik, Keysight, Rohde & Schwarz, TDK-Lambda, Delta Elektronika
Electronic loads
EA Elektro-Automatik, Chroma, Höcherl & Hackl, ITECH, Kikusui
Multimeters and SMUs
Keysight, Keithley, Rohde & Schwarz
Multiplexers and switching systems
Keysight, Keithley
Data logger
HIOKI, Keysight, Yokogawa, Graphtec
Oscilloscopes
Tektronix, Keysight, Rohde & Schwarz, Siglent
Power analyzers
Yokogawa, HIOKI, ZES Zimmer
Climate chambers
BINDER, Weiss Technik, Vötsch, ESPEC
CAN interfaces
Vector, PEAK-System, Kvaser, Ixxat
Insulation testers
HIOKI, Chroma, Kikusui

Brands mentioned belong to their owners. Amperatec is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers.

  • PythonIntegrators are Python packages. You don't have to write any.
  • Simulatorper integrator, test sequences without hardware
  • Safe stateRequired for every integrator

Who builds Amperatec

From the test lab. For the test lab.

  • Engineering

    Jascha Thomas

    Electrical engineering at TUM (B.Sc. and M.Sc.). About ten years in electronics testing and test bench design, including self-built test instruments.

  • Sales and partnerships

    Leonard von Boetticher

    Engineer (mechanical engineering), HEC Paris graduate. Your contact for setup, pricing and collaboration.

Frequently asked questions. Short answers.

What does the AI decide, and what not?

The AI proposes a sequence from your description: only blocks from the library, in a fixed format, no code, every assumption flagged. You give the approval. Limits and shutdown come from the DUT profile and the setup, never from the AI. It plays no part during the run. Without the AI, you assemble the sequence from building blocks yourself. No programming required.

What exists today?

Amperatec is in its pilot phase. With our first partners we set up: connecting instruments, approving sequences, unattended runs across several test benches, and analysis compared with earlier runs. Next come tests that a firmware or hardware change triggers by itself, and questions about every run in your own words.

What happens if something goes wrong overnight?

If a reading reaches a limit from the DUT profile or the setup, the limit monitor shuts down and brings the instruments to a safe state. The run is marked as aborted, with the reason and the readings, and you are notified. Whether a test bench may run unattended is set by your risk assessment. Emergency stops and contactors stay hardware.

Where do the numbers in the answers come from?

From your runs. The AI translates your question into a query on your runs; computing and plotting happen on your machine. Every answer names its source: run, DUT, firmware, test bench. No measurement data leaves your site for this.

Where is the measurement data stored, and what needs to be installed?

Measurement data and sequences stay on the computer at the setup or on a server in your building. No cloud is required. For the AI proposal, which you then review and approve, only the description, the DUT profile and the setup's capabilities leave your network, never measurement data. The AI can be switched off. You install a Windows program; updates also work without internet access.

Which instruments can I connect?

The instruments already in your lab: power supplies, electronic loads, multimeters, data loggers, multiplexers, power analyzers, climate chambers and CAN adapters, including different manufacturers in the same setup. If an integrator is missing, we build it, as long as the instrument has a documented interface.

What if my test doesn't fit the building blocks?

The library contains charge, discharge, rest, pulses, temperature control, wait, measure, loops and conditions, plus CAN messages to a BMS. These form templates such as capacity, DCIR or pulse test. If your test needs a block that is missing, tell us. If it fits the product, we add it to the library. We don't build custom software outside Amperatec.

Does this also work for production testing?

Yes. Lab and production are one product. An end-of-line test you develop in the lab runs with the same sequence at the end-of-line station, without new programming. Production has stricter rules: approval by a second person, serial number via scanner, pass or fail against fixed limits, an immutable record per serial number. The operator only sees serial number, start and result.

How do we start, and what does it cost?

It starts with a setup at your test bench. We connect your existing instruments, build missing integrators and set up two or three tests you run often as sequences. After that you use Amperatec at the lab bench and at the end-of-line station alike. How billing works and what it costs, we discuss in a call once we know your instruments and tests.

Become a pilot partner. We set up your first test bench.

We connect the instruments on one of your test benches, set up two or three of your tests as sequences and let them run unattended. Or see it first in a 20-minute call.

Or directly at leonard.boetticher@amperatec.com · +49 151 5069 5920