From the Experts: Automated Test Best Practices
Obtain some best practices for building automated test systems from leading experts. This presentation, featuring Bloomy's David Moschella, covers the full test process from analyzing test requirements and developing the tester architecture to optimizing test throughput and deploying test systems.
Bloomy was able to develop a headless ATE system based off the of NI Single Board RIO. In this session you will learn how all of these issues can be resolved by controlling COTS equipment with a National Instruments Single-board RIO, networked to a central PC for simplified process set up and data collection.
Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG is a worldwide leader in the development and manufacturing of electrical connection, electronic interface and industrial automation technologies.
Phoenix Contact requires a highly flexible automated test cell capable of testing multiple products. The system must gate product flow at multiple stages, not allowing an operator to proceed with a product which has failed testing at any point.
Brooks Automation, a leading worldwide provider of automation, vacuum, and instrumentation for semiconductor manufacturing (www.brooks.com).
Replace legacy automated test equipment with a “universal” Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA) manufacturing test platform capable of functional testing a wide range of PCBAs. The legacy system employed scores of cable harnesses constructed with DB-50 style connectors. Operator errors in cable hookup risk damage to product and test equipment.
Symmetricom (now Microsemi) is the leading source of timekeeping and extremely precise synchronization technology for use by many industrial and government applications worldwide. Their Chip Scale Atomic Clock technology enables atomic clock technology in portable applications by its extreme size, weight and power reductions.
Insulet Corporation located in Bedford, MA, develops and manufactures medical systems that manage and deliver insulin for diabetic patients. One of the challenges for diabetic patients is administering insulin in an easy, painless manner that ensures the injection of precise amounts of insulin. Insulet developed a new insulin delivery product called OmniPod® to help address the market needs. However, they needed a way to test the device early in the production process in order to reduce defects downstream.
IC Screening for Failure Analysis Laboratories
Bloomy's Headless ATE is an automated test platform that is extremely simple to operate and does not require a PC. It consists of a 3U enclosure containing National Instruments' Single-Board RIO with LabVIEW software, a power supply, and preexisting commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) test instruments. The front panel contains just a couple of mechanical push buttons, and pass and fail LEDs. The test program, instrument configuration settings, and test limits are maintained by ATE Supervisor, a supervisory application that runs on a networked PC.
Zoll Medical Corporation (ZOLL), a leader in medical devices and software solutions.
Minimize the test engineering labor involved in the development and validation of manufacturing automated test equipment (ATE) for ZOLL’s defibrillator products. Replace a legacy in-house rack-and-stack ATE approach with a standardized functional test platform that can be quickly replicated and adapted for new products.
