Why ATE to be 4.0 Compliant?
During manufacturing, ATE is used to test electronic products to detect the manufacturing process failures and to ensure the functionality of the product. The test data collected during testing are very critical to improve the manufacturing process, product quality (FPY) and used by test engineering and advance manufacturing team to improve the ATE OEE. This data also used by production engineering team, to plan the production planning effectively to fulfill the customer orders on time – OTTR.
Today these data are stored locally in the ATE memory and these data are access manually by all manufacturing team to control their department matrix which is time consuming which leads to human errors, no real time action and it is a tedious job. In case if ATE system crashed all the important test data will be lost.
Advantages of having ATE to be 4.0
- ATE of 4.0 compliant, can connect each of the ATE’s systems together and move the test data to the centralized center location.
- No need of collecting data and generating the report/manufacturing matrix manually, simple analytical software can run on the centralized data to generate any kinds of report/ matrix automatically which avoid human errors.
- All the data can be made available in real time.
- ATE of 4.0 compliant enable to set the automatic triggers based on company’s quality matrix.
- ATE of 4.0 compliant enable to connect the factory’s geographically (enterprise level connectivity)
- It helps to maintain the product quality (FPY) and high OEE.
- Product traceability during warranty or field failures.