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For Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) firms, achieving high yields on manufactured circuit boards and sub-assemblies is imperative. But, testing to achieve a higher yield must be done efficiently. That's just what ScanWorks with its JTAG capabilities has provided for a number of EMS firms who now are deeply committed to boundary scan test processes.

Jabil, for example, reduced its ICT test development costs significantly when it teamed ScanWorks with Agilent Technologies' 3070 ICT systems. Another EMS, Reptron Manufacturing Services, compiled a thorough study that demonstrated the accelerated return on investment (ROI) it received from ScanWorks. Moreover, SMT, a contract manufacturer, faced an unacceptable failure rate on a circuit board with poor ICT test coverage because of limited physical access. Once SMT combined boundary scan and ICT, the failure rate dropped precipitously.

OEMs working with EMS firms have found that deploying ScanWorks early in the manufacturing process pays off handsomely throughout a product's life cycle. ADC, for instance, saw its yields on lots of manufactured circuit boards increase from the 10 to 60 percent range to well over 90 percent when it worked with its EMS to implement ScanWorks. As a startup, Neoscale saved significant debug time when it began using ScanWorks on the circuit boards it received from its EMS .