Commenting on the company’s significant achievements, President Ute Boctor made it clear that Digitaltest intends to build on its recent successes: “We will be adding new staff this year to our sales, manufacturing and engineering teams. This will allow us to continue to satisfy the rapidly expanding time we need for benchmarks and growing demand from export markets, particularly from Eastern Europe, where order entries have been particularly strong over the past six months”.
The New Falcon In-Line Test System
The fully automated Falcon In-Line test system brings speed, high throughput and flexibility to in-line test for high volume manufacture.With its slim-line dimensions and SMEMA standard interface Falcon is compatible with most production lines while its high speed fixture changing
capabilities make it ideal for high mix production environments.
The Falcon test system offers standard MDA functions such as tests for incorrect, missing or misoriented components, and opens and shorts, while a full range of In Circuit test capabilities provide comprehensive test coverage. The system also comes with five functional test modules: Memory
Programming and Flash, Timer Counter, Source and Measurement, Relay Module and Open Collector, making this system as versatile as it is fast. The system can be equipped with up to 512 (1024 XL version) analog or 256 (512 XL version) hybrid pins.
Program development, program debugging and fault localisation software packages come as standard with the Falcon, and an easy to use graphical interface ensures easy interpretation of test results.
All of this is packed into a compact footprint and a system that makes high volume, high-mix in-line test eminently affordable.
For General Manager Hans Baka, there is no doubt that Digitaltest has maintained a global leadership position. “with our enhanced service offering in the UK and further afield, and with the launch of the new Falcon in-line test system at Electronica 2006, we continue in our tradition of providing innovative, leading-edge solutions that our clients know they can trust”. Indeed, the highly successful, much-awaited Falcon system was designed specifically to respond to the demands and suggestions that Digitaltest received from its international clients.
Hans Baka comments: “We have a deep understanding of our customers' changing marketplace: of the global cost pressures they face, and this, combined with our determination to offer continuous improvements in our product offering, make Digitaltest the ideal partner for companies that expect global support from their ATE supplier”, he says, concluding that it is hardly surprising that such companies as Bosch, EADS, Panasonic, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Whirlpool, Siemens, Samsung, and GE Medical all rely on Digitaltest for their ATE hardware and software solutions.