The rise of high technology products by worldwide customers along with the slowdown of production due to Covid-19 pandemic, has led to the scarcity of semiconductors and, therefore, to a dramatic increase of their prices over the past two years.
According to the Biden administration prevision, the shortage will not end any soon but will perdure to the whole 2022, with a consequent puissant backdrop on connected industries, as the automotive and the electronics.
Semiconductors and integrated circuits manufacturers are squashed between the deficit of materials and customers increasing demands with the need to find solutions to speed up their production. But, how to improve an already distinctly innovative and “high tech” industry?
As noticed while discussing with our customers, a weak point of ICs production is the collateral activity of testing equipment maintenance as, for example, the load boards that connect ICs to Automatic Test Equipment.
Being a fundamental part of ICs testing activities, load boards, in their ideal forms, shouldn’t interfere with the testing process. No errors, no delays as, ideally, they should invisibly connect the device under test to the ATE.
The invisibility rapidly fades away when too many fails in the testing procedures are verified: production line is interrupted and the ATE is immediately shifted from chips testing to load boards testing and debugging, being busy for the long hours needed.
When a costly ATE is diverted from the purpose of its purchasing, the return on investment dramatically drops provoking, along with the interruption of production, a big headache to the general manager.
To overcome this situation, boosting chips production and increasing ROI on the ATE, E.D. Elettronica Dedicata has developed a tester to be used specifically on load boards.
Less expensive that an ATE, adaptable to any load boards thanks to a range of application kits, FlexyTEST® can be successfully used by not specifically skilled workers, freeing the ATE from load boards testing and debugging duties.
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln”, Abraham Lincoln once said. To sharp the axe of your production, four hours are maybe too much: usually a brief call with our engineers is enough.
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