Company Profile

Overview

ASSET InterTech is a provider of advanced solutions for the test and measurement industry. Its ScanWorks® platform for embedded instruments is deployed by manufacturers to validate, test and debug their chips, circuit boards and entire systems. The software-based ScanWorks platform is a departure from older hardware-based test systems which are typically much more expensive and limited because their capabilities are hardwired. ScanWorks takes advantage of instruments that are embedded into today’s semiconductors to perform test routines that migrate with a system from early development, through manufacturing and into field support. As a result of this portability, test costs are significantly reduced over a product’s life-cycle while quality and reliability are increased. Improved quality and reliability generate significant value for the manufacturer. Lower support costs, fewer product returns, less re-work and satisfied, loyal customers are some of the many benefits.

History

ASSET InterTech began as a business unit of Texas Instruments (TI). In July of 1995, the group that was working on boundary-scan (IEEE 1149.1 JTAG) test tools was spun off from TI and became an independent and privately held company. ASSET has evolved its ScanWorks product into a platform for embedded instruments featuring multiple validation, test and debug technologies. ScanWorks now has an installed base of more than 5,000 systems worldwide in hundreds of organizations. Among its customers are most of the prominent companies in communications, such as Cisco, Ericsson, Motorola, Alcatel-Lucent, Tellabs and Huawei; defense and avionics, such as Raytheon, Rockwell, Lockheed Martin, BAE, ITT, Northrop Grumman and GE Aviation; computers, such as Intel, HP and Dell; and manufacturing services, such as Foxconn, Flextronics and others.

Ethics and Relationships

ASSET is committed to providing the utmost long term value to users of its ScanWorks platform, while maintaining a high level of integrity with its customers, employees and various stakeholders.

For users of ScanWorks, ASSET has been able to identify and deliver value by establishing close and lasting relationships with its prestigious customers. Over the years since its founding, the relationship between ASSET and its users has become collaborative, based on the mutual benefits both parties receive. Nurturing and maintaining this non-typical supplier/user relationship is at the center of ASSET’s business ethos.

This collegial sense of collaboration applies to the people who work at ASSET too. Having evolved from a small and close knit group of professionals, many of whom are still with the company, ASSET’s corporate culture is characterized by teamwork, consensus building, listening, empowerment and cooperation.

Vision and Mission

ASSET InterTech has an explicit vision of its mission with regards to its users and employees. The following are the basic tenets that ASSET functions by:

Our vision is to help our customers achieve all of the benefits of embedded instrumentation.

To achieve this vision, we are dedicated to making ASSET the worldwide leading supplier of embedded instrumentation solutions.

Values

Underpinning ASSET’s vision and mission are a set of fundamental values that drive how the company and its personnel conduct business. These values are:

Our relationships with users and partners will be nurtured.

We will build trust by meeting mutually agreed upon commitments with integrity.

We will always respect our customers, and the individual and team contributions of our employees.

We will deliver excellent products and services that make our customers successful.

We take pride in what we do and we have fun at it.

Complementing the sense of ownership we feel toward our company is the realization that each of us is responsible for the kind of company ASSET is. To that end, rather than the traditional hierarchical top-down corporate structure, ASSET is dedicated to a side-by-side sharing of the responsibility for leadership within the company. Each of us leads by example.