Aerospace and Defence manufacturing services
Built for extreme environments. Manufactured in New Zealand.
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Nautech delivers precision electronics for aviation and space programs, actively contributing to the growing momentum of New Zealand’s aerospace sectors. We manufacture assemblies that meet the technical demands of flight-ready systems with high-reliability requirements.
We support New Zealand Defence SMEs and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with secure, high-quality local manufacturing of rugged electronics, tailored to mission profiles ranging from unmanned systems to secure communications. We focus exclusively on manufacturing projects that support technologies designed for protection, communications, surveillance, and operational resilience.
Our services include:
- Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA)
- box-build product assembly
- automated conformal coating for space applications
- testing and inspection
- PCB design, development, and maintenance services.
Our committment to quality
Nautech Electronic Manufacturing employs a high quality management standard to aerospace and defence manufacturing. We design our systems to meet the demands of aviation, space, and defence.
We maintain:
Documentation
Our controlled system captures all data from customer specs, through production to final test reports.
Management responsibility
Our leaders embed a quality-first culture throughout the business.
Production and service provision
We define, document, and control every manufacturing process.
Monitoring and measurement
We conduct rigorous testing and inspection to minimise defects and maintain equipment integrity.
Our systems comply with ISO 9001, ISO 13485, IPC-A-610 standards, and address key certification requirements, including:
- preventing the use of counterfeit parts
- controlling safety-critical, mission-critical, and fracture-critical items
- applying risk-based approaches to managing key characteristics
- managing high-risk customer requirements through operational risk management
- addressing human factors in production.
We are currently undergoing AS 9100D certification for aviation, space, and defence applications.
Our traceability systems
Our Cluso inventory system tracks each component from supplier through to final inspection, providing full traceability data for your device history file.
Industry participation
Nautech drives the growth of New Zealand’s aerospace technology sector through industry engagement and education.
