Unisig has expanded its technical centre with a renovated space and more than US$1 million in equipment dedicated to research and development, strengthening its role in precision deep hole drilling process development and machine innovation.
The centre in Wisconsin is used to develop gundrilling and BTA drilling processes for customers and to test new ideas that make the company’s machines better and easier to use.
Tech centre projects are often completed before a machine is purchased or while it is being built, helping validate applications, confirm process capability, and reduce time at installation.
Unisig engineers run the centre, following a disciplined approach that includes process planning, time studies, tooling selection, and full setup modelling. This ensures testing produces measurable insight, not just results, and allows outcomes to be evaluated directly against engineering expectations.
Anthony Fettig, CEO of Unisig said: “Our Tech Centre allows us to test and validate in real-world conditions. That drives better machine design, stronger performance, and more practical solutions for our customers.”
Mechanical and electrical engineers both play active roles in the centre. Mechanical engineers use it to refine drilling processes, validate tooling strategies, and better understand how machines perform across different materials and applications. Electrical engineers use the same environment to test sensor technology, refine user interface features, and develop machine control software on active equipment rather than in simulation.
This ability to work on functioning machines introduces real-world variables early in the development cycle. It allows software to be proven before machine build completion, ensures new technologies are fully integrated with Unisig control systems, and helps identify usability improvements through direct operator interaction.
The centre also supports automation development. Robots and machine systems are integrated and validated together, allowing the company to refine automation strategies and improve changeover, flexibility, and overall system performance before deployment.
In addition to development activities, the facility serves as a training resource for machine builders and service technicians and provides customers with opportunities to participate in process demonstrations, testing, and application validation.
Unisig machines are available in the UK through the company’s European sales and support organisation in Germany, Unisig GMBH.