ADAS Radar Assembly — Alignment That Survives the Containment Letter

Automotive radar modules used in ADAS (Adaptive Cruise Control, Lane Keep Assist, AEB) are unforgiving little pieces of hardware. Sub-degree misalignment in the assembly fixture surfaces months later as a customer complaint — and an OEM containment letter that costs more than the line is worth.

A purpose-built ADAS Radar Assembly station exists to make that failure mode physically impossible.

What the station has to do

A defensible ADAS radar assembly station handles:

• Fiducial-based alignment with vision so the module sits exactly where the design intends, not "approximately where it usually sits."
• Closed-loop torque + vision for the mounting screws so torque is captured and alignment is re-verified after fastening.
• Functional self-test — the radar boots through a sealed alignment routine and reports its measured alignment back to the station.
• Per-unit signed report — alignment values, torque values, station ID, timestamp. The unit doesn't ship without the report.

Skip any of those four and you've left a failure mode wide open.

How MileSoft handles it

The MileSoft ADAS Radar Assembly station gives you:

1. Vision-aligned mounting fixture that won't release the unit until alignment is within tolerance.
2. Multi-controller torque integration (Atlas Copco, Desoutter, Stanley, Cleco) — the same controller backbone as Torque Traceability.
3. Sealed self-test routine that the radar runs against a fixed fiducial during assembly.
4. Per-unit digital pedigree with VIN linkage, alignment values, and torque history — exportable to the OEM's traceability spec.

Quietly important features

• Calibration validation of the station itself, on a schedule the OEM auditor will recognize.
• Operator authentication so every event is attributable.
• Integration with Pick-to-Light upstream so the right radar variant arrives at the station.

Where it fits

The full pokayoke stack on most ADAS lines:

• Pick-to-Light at the kitting bay.
• ADAS Radar Assembly at the mounting station.
• AC Performance Test on a sister product family.
• Material Traceability for the genealogy spine.

The takeaway

ADAS containment incidents are the kind of cost that doesn't show up in your operations dashboard until the OEM call comes in. By then the only mitigation is sorting through tens of thousands of units to find the affected ones. The right assembly station eliminates the failure at the source — not after.

Book a demo and bring a unit of your radar module — we'll walk through the sealed alignment + validation flow.