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Fast Return on Investments

For the financial types, the bottom line is how quickly an investment in a new test tool will pay for itself in cost savings. That is, the shorter the return on investment (ROI) the better. The answer for ScanWorks is emphatic. Lucent saved more than a $1 million when it started running ScanWorks JTAG tests on its 3070 ICT tester systems. By deploying ScanWorks and boundary scan, Navini increased its test coverage to over 90 percent and estimated that it recouped the cost of a ScanWorks manufacturing station from as few as first ten to 20 circuit boards tested.

And Reptron, a contract manufacturer, did a quantitative case study over 78 circuit boards, 20 of which required rework. Half had boundary scan and the others did not. The cost to test and diagnose the boards with boundary scan was $30,700 less, ensuring an almost immediate ROI on Reptron's ScanWorks investment.

Success Stories

Lucent Technologies
Ever on the lookout for ways to reduce costs and improve operating efficiencies, Lucent Technologies initiated a study to evaluate an implementation of ScanWorks® software on the Agilent 3070 Series 3 in-circuit test (ICT) platform. Lucent anticipated that the ScanWorks/3070 combination could lower overall test costs and reduce printed circuit board (PCB) test complexity by allowing Lucent test teams to reuse boundary-scan tests at in-circuit test. Read more>

Navini Networks
JTAG Training and Memory Interconnect Test pay off quickly for manufacturer of high-speed wireless equipment. If Michael Hinz, digital hardware design engineer at Navini Networks, were setting up a test strategy, the first piece of equipment he would acquire would be ASSET's ScanWorks boundary-scan test and in-system programming solution. Read more>

Reptron Manufacturing Services
EMS firm finds that JTAG testing with ScanWorks pays for itself by saving "money, time and company resources." Accelerated ROI: The ScanWorks JTAG system reduced troubleshooting time by 1,457 percent! Because of the nature of its business, Reptron Manufacturing Services, an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company with its headquarters in Tampa, Fla., and a major manufacturing facility in Hibbing, MN, had to be certain that its investment in boundary-scan test equipment would not only generate a healthy return on investment, but it would do so over a very short period of time. The firm found its solution in ASSET's ScanWorks boundary-scan test and in-system programming environment. Read more>