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Manufacturing Test

Boundary scan, by way of ScanWorks®, has become an important weapon in many companies' manufacturing test arsenals. One of the world's largest electronics manufacturer, Jabil, for example, generated big cost savings by combining ScanWorks' JTAG tests on its 3070 ICT systems. A small segment of Jabil's overall cost savings comes from reducing ICT test development costs by 25 percent. Another big manufacturer, Raytheon/ODS, has had a similar experience with ScanWorks for the 3070. But JTAG test and ScanWorks in manufacturing aren't limited to running on ICT platforms. Another defense manufacturer experienced significant cost savings by running ScanWorks JTAG tests with a flying probe tester.

Similarly, smaller manufacturers have reduced the cost of manufacturing test by integrating ScanWorks into their processes. Qlogic, for one, came to the conclusion that it couldn't test its circuit boards without ScanWorks. Digidesign found visual inspection and ICT lacking. One nettlesome problem was diagnosed by ScanWorks as a faulty pin on a DSP chip. And Netrix has bought into boundary scan to such a degree that it has now become an integral part of its overall manufacturing test strategy.

Success Stories

Digidesign
ScanWorks® Saves Digidesign Time, Stress and Pain. "When a board failed our diagnostic tests, a test technician would spend all day probing it with an oscilloscope until we found where the problem was," said Chris Durocher, manufacturing engineer for Digidesign™, the leading supplier of digital audio recording and editing systems, and winner of a 2001 Technical Grammy award for work performed on the movie, The Mummy Returns. "Now that we have ASSET ScanWorks™, we know exactly where the problem is in seconds. ScanWorks saves us a lot of time, stress and pain." Read more>

Netrix
ASSET Helps Telecommunications Company Program Implement In-System Programming with the ScanWorks JTAG Environment. "Based on these results, we decided to require boundary scan on all new products." Read more>

Qlogic
Qlogic rates ScanWorks JTAG system "the best!" Miles Nelson, test engineer for Qlogic, Aliso Viejo, Calif., wanted to find the best JTAG test and in-system programming environment available. He methodically tried some of the boundary scan products he could find and came to an emphatic conclusion. Read more>

Raytheon and ODS Networks
See how ASSET helped Raytheon and ODS reuse their tests as they moved from development to manufacturing. "With ASSET, we were able to develop one of our JTAG tests in two weeks. We were amazed how quickly boundary scan test development went," said Greg Knight of Raytheon. Ron Romero of Essential/ODS attests, "We were able to start testing the system via JTAG right away because we didn't have to generate tests from scratch. We just re-used Raytheon's boundary scan tests." Read more>

Confidential Defense Vendor
ASSET Boundary-Scan Test And Flying Probe Tester Minimize The Use Of CCA Functional Test For Defense Communications Vendor. A manufacturer of communications boards for defense and commercial applications has all but eliminated the need for digital-CCA functional test by teaming the ASSET boundary-scan test and in-system programming system with a flying probe tester from DiagnoSYS Ltd. Read more>

Jabil
Agilent ScanWorks® Completes Successful Assessment at Jabil Circuit. One of the first places electronics manufacturers look to reduce expenses is through the elimination of redundant effort. Jabil Circuit, Inc. one of the top Electronic Manufacturing Services providers was first to perform early assessment of Agilent Technologies' and ASSET InterTech’s joint effort to enable manufacturers to leverage boundary scan tests across the product life cycle. Read more>