Automation & Robotics

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Technology & Engineering

December 17, 2025

Raising throughput on a high-volume automation line

On high volume electronics programs, the smoothness of an automation line has a direct impact on everything around it. If the line hesitates, operators feel it. If the flow backs up, quality teams feel it. Customers eventually feel it too. This is why our engineering teams pay close attention to the small details that make these lines run well.  […]

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Technology & Engineering

December 10, 2025

A faster path to onboarding new enterprise hardware

In the world of enterprise servers, every model looks a little different. Ports change. Backplanes shift. Carriers and sleds come and go. These small variations cause friction during onboarding, because each configuration needs its own procedure for safe and consistent data sanitization.  Over the past year, our storage engineering teams in Havant and Penang have […]

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Technology & Engineering

December 10, 2025

How an R&D team in Northern Europe is changing the way devices move through our network

There is a moment in every returns program where a device first meets a technician. The technician looks it over, checks its condition, notes damage, and decides what should happen next. That moment shapes everything that follows. The more consistent it is, the better the outcomes for the customer and the clearer the path for […]

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Technology & Engineering

December 10, 2025

How OCR is cleaning up a messy part of the returns process

At one of our high-volume laptop programs, a simple task was slowing everything down.  Every unit that arrived on site needed its serial number checked against a shipping pre alert. On paper, that is straightforward. In reality, it meant people leaning over boxes, reading tiny fonts, keying long alphanumeric strings into a system, and trying […]

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Leadership update
About us

December 7, 2025

Expanding Reconext’s Global Operations Leadership

 To our valued customers and partners,   As Reconext continues to expand its global footprint and the scope of services we deliver, we are pleased to share an update to our senior leadership team designed to support our ongoing growth and enhance the value we provide to you.   Introducing Bobby Singh as Chief Operating Officer  We […]

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Automated cosmetic grading is no longer optional
Technology & Engineering

November 17, 2025

Automated cosmetic grading is no longer optional

How one global electronics company solved a growing inspection bottleneck.  Cosmetic inspection has always been a difficult part of hardware recovery. Some devices are simple to check. Others have angles, lenses, seams, coatings, and surfaces that hide flaws until they show up in the next customer’s hands. As device designs become more complex, manual inspection becomes […]

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A simple machine, a big shift in circularity
Spotlight

November 17, 2025

A simple machine, a big shift in circularity

Some of the best improvements in hardware recovery come from simple ideas. A machine that removes the top layer of plastic. A small shift in workflow. A single trial batch that surprises everyone.  This story started with remote controls. The kind that ship with every set-top box. The kind customers drop, scratch, and replace without thinking about […]

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Engineering Innovation: Automating for Smarter, Faster, More Sustainable Operations
Technology & Engineering

October 3, 2025

Engineering Innovation: Automating for Smarter, Faster, More Sustainable Operations

At Reconext, our R&D and engineering teams are focused on scaling proven tools while advancing new concepts into build and prototype phases. These efforts are central to how we deliver smarter, faster, and more sustainable operations for our customers worldwide. Here are just a few of the projects our teams are working on right now: […]

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Reconext to Spotlight Circular Innovation at the OCP Global Summit
News

September 29, 2025

Reconext to Spotlight Circular Innovation at the OCP Global Summit

Reconext is set to take the stage at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit in San Jose, October 13–16, 2025. With this year’s theme, Leading the Future of AI, the event brings together the world’s top innovators to reimagine the infrastructure powering tomorrow’s data centers. Reconext will be there to make sure the circular […]

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Technology & Engineering

September 24, 2025

AI Innovation Driving Smarter Quality Processes

Managing technical documentation across multiple languages is one of the most time-consuming challenges in global operations. Manual translation and formatting take hours, create inconsistencies, and increase costs.  To address this, Reconext engineers developed TransCreatorDocs, an AI-assisted tool that simplifies the creation, translation, and management of Work Instructions. The tool is already in use at one […]

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