Capabilities

Hellbender Inc. is a design and manufacturing house that provides affordable low-volume production of edge-compute products. Our expert staff use open-source designs, in-house printed circuit board assembly, robotic work cells and a modern robotic assembly line to speed your products to market. With a strong background in sensors, field robotics, and embedded machine learning, Hellbender can help you find the best practical technology available to solve your problems.

Design, Development, and Production

Bring us your designs or prototypes and our team can help you find the best practical technology available to solve your problems. We leverage our IP portfolio of hardware and software building blocks, along with Open Source Licensed solutions to quickly get your ideas ready for market. We excel at AI ready Internet-of-Things devices and robotics solutions.

Our in-house modern manufacturing equipment enables us to produce your components and final products here in the USA. We offer high-mix, low-rate production builds in the 1k to 100k range per product, with pricing that is competitive with overseas manufacturers. Our investments include a SMT pick and place line, robotic work cells, camera focus, sensor calibration, and light machining.

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Product Design

We leverage our IP portfolio of hardware and software building blocks, along with Open Source Licensed solutions to quickly get your ideas ready for market.

  • Official Raspberry Pi® Design Partner
  • Hardware and firmware expertise
  • Camera and optics design capability
  • Rugged systems capability

AI, IoT, and Robotics Building Blocks at Hb

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Validation & Verification

We utilize in-process and end-of-line testing in order to ship products with high confidence in their performance.

  • Full printed circuit board assembly
  • Full electronics lab
  • 3D printers
  • CNC routers
  • Light machine shop
  • 10W laser cutter

In-house Testing:

  • Full electronics lab
  • RF testing mini-cell
  • Broad temperature and humidity chamber
  • Long-term thermal testing chamber
  • Electromagnetic emission chamber
  • Close proximity to full-service test sites

American Manufacturing

Our in-house modern manufacturing equipment enables us to produce your components and final products here in the USA. We offer high-mix, low-rate production builds in the 1k to 100k range per product. Our expertise in robotic and cobotic manufacturing solutions enables us to be competitive with overseas manufacturers while keeping schedules short and shipping costs low.

  • Full printed circuit board assembly line in Class 7 clean room
  • 100% solder paste inspection
  • 100% automated optical inspection post-assembly
  • Robotic and cobotic work cells
  • Expert assembly and electronics technicians
  • Camera focus and calibration
  • 100% PCB and solder waste is recycled

Design, Development, and Production

We can not only manufacture your products but also package them and get them where you need them to go, even straight to your customers.

  • Our facility includes a covered loading dock, easy highway access, and is visited by UPS, FEDEX, and DHL multiples times per day
  • Hellbender’s Manufacturing Resource Planner is integrated with Shopify and Shipstation
  • Robotic packaging and palletization
  • We have experience doing low-volume direct shipping and can work with third-party logistics

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Let’s Work Together

We think our transparent, frank, and honest approach to doing business makes us a trustworthy partner that will be a steward of your interests.   Do you need to transition a sensor or robotics project to product?  Contact us today to discuss how we can be of service.

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