Every unit measured before it leaves the factory.
An acceptance workstation for drone manufacturers. Each assembled airframe runs a short test; Bench checks it against the lot’s criteria and issues pass or fail with the numbers behind it.
Acceptance today is a person watching a drone hover.
Many production lines accept units by eye: a short flight and a tick in a spreadsheet. Defects surface weeks later in a unit, where they cost a mission instead of a part. Bench turns acceptance into measurement.
- QA leadsAccept or reject units on measurements instead of a visual check.
- Production managersSee which component batches cause rejects while the lot is still on the line.
- Customers and procurementReceive an acceptance certificate with every lot.
Every unit measured before it ships.
- 1
Scan the unit
The serial numbers of the frame, motors, ESC and battery are recorded against the unit.
- 2
Run the test
The line’s usual acceptance hover or short flight — Bench reads the log, so nothing about the line has to change.
- 3
Get the result
Pass or fail for each criterion, the failing value highlighted and the likely cause named: “Vibration 0.44 g, limit 0.35 g — check motor 2 propeller.”
- 4
Release the lot
Lot statistics with a confidence interval, units held automatically if a component batch is flagged, and an acceptance certificate as PDF.
- Hover thrust against the reference for the type
- Vibration RMS on three axes
- Current balance between motors
- Battery cell spread at rest and under load
- GNSS time to first fix
- Gyro noise
- Video and control-link quality
Bench writes a factory passport for every airframe: its reference values and the serial of every component. When the airframe reaches a unit, Hangar starts from that passport instead of waiting 10–15 flights to learn its normal — and every component stays traceable to its batch.
- Runs on
- A Windows or Linux workstation at the acceptance bay
- Connectivity
- Local; an on-premise server is optional
- Time per unit
- 2–5 minutes, including the test hover
- Pricing
- Per workstation, plus per unit tested
- A fixture with thrust and vibration sensors that runs motors through a load programme without a flight.
- More precise and repeatable than a hover, and no test range needed.
- Built only if pilot manufacturers ask for it — it is hardware, with calibration and service of its own.