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The idea of the young founder, Luciano Bonaria (formerly a test engineer at General Electric), is to make standard equipment for testing electronic devices, and to sell them to manufacturers of electronic boards and equipment. A winning idea, the first step in a history of excellence, marked by achievements and continuous growth.

The success of SPEA ‘s first products led the company to grow and expand abroad. Starting with Germany, Europe’s economic engine.

Several milestones in the SPEA portfolio are being produced during these years: Digitest, the first Digital ICT Automatic Board Tester, and Unitest 500, the first model with a multifunctional architecture, which laid the foundation for all future projects.

SPEA is now an established player in the world of testing, so much so that it has become the fourth largest company in the world in electronic board testing.

R&D is working at full capacity designing products intended to be state-of-art electronic testing, such as 4040, the first flying probe tester made in SPEA.

The Turin-based company’s innovative equipment is being used for the first time in semiconductor testing, opening up important new development scenarios.

The new millennium is full of changes for the world of electronics, and SPEA has not found itself unprepared.

The continuous research of innovative testing solutions leads the company to grow uninterruptedly, brilliantly overcoming global downturns and acquiring prestigious customers worldwide, including electronics manufacturers.

Some of SPEA’s flagship products are being developed during these years: such as the first MEMS accelerometer test cell, or the new 3030 multifunction in-circuit testing platform.

The new millennium is full of changes for the world of electronics, and SPEA has not found itself unprepared. The continuous research of innovative testing solutions leads the company to grow uninterruptedly, brilliantly overcoming global downturns and acquiring prestigious customers worldwide, including electronics manufacturers.

Some of SPEA’s flagship products are being developed during these years: such as the first MEMS accelerometer test cell, or the new 3030 multifunction in-circuit testing platform.

SPEA is now among the undisputed testing leaders in the world, both in the semiconductor industry and in the electronic board industry. The investments made in previous years lead SPEA to dominate the brand new market for inertial microsensor test equipment.

The family of MEMS test equipment is enriched with new input/output media, and stimuli for a variety of devices (humidity, pressure, UV, proximity, magnetic, microphone sensors).

SPEA also launched 4080, an 8-axis flying probe tester designed to combine the highest test speed with the most accurate contact accuracy.

An increasingly digitized, automated, interconnected world: this is the scenario that is driving the world of electronics in the new decade, which is also the setting of SPEA’s growth projects.

In fact, the company is at the forefront of the development of testing technologies aimed at ensuring the proper functioning of all the electronic components that lie at the heart of self-driving vehicles, the sensor technology that brings Smart Objects and the Internet of Things to life, and the electronics that make the world greener, linked to renewable energy sources and the efficient use of energy itself (power electronics, batteries, power management). And SPEA is also active in the field of industrial automation, to the point that it is extending its automatic handling capabilities – already available on testers and handlers for integrated circuits – to test equipment for electronic boards and modules: SPEA testers therefore become capable of operating in total autonomy, even in fully automated factories. The high integration of functions on modules that traditionally contained only electronic components (functions such as touch displays, buttons, LEDs, speakers, …) also led to the development of a new family of optomechatronic testers to perform all electronic, optical, and mechanical testing on a single system.