Dear Colleague
Here is some information about semiconductor test that I am sure you will find of interest.
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How much time do your test and product engineers spend each day chasing down problems and trying to understand complex data issues?
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How much time do your managers spend resolving issues with your test floor or test subcontractors?
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What is the real value of real-time?
The following Case Study from Power Integrations addresses these important questions.
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Best-in-Class Yield Managment
How Power Integrations Leverages the Value of Real-Time Test Data
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Power Integrations, Inc. is the leader in high-voltage analog integrated circuits for power conversion. Andrew Bruno is their Director of Test Engineering. During 2008, with Pintail's assistance, Andrew's team deployed TestScape for the purpose of giving his test and product engineers in San Jose, CA real-time visibility into test data being collected from dozens of testers located at their internal test floor in California as well as from several test subcontractors in Asia.
Andrew has been so pleased with the product, that he has been kind enough to share his decision-making process and highlights of his experience using TestScape in a Case Study for Pintail. In the case study, Andrew discusses:
- The original business needs and goals for the system and what justification he successfully used with his management to get the project started.
- How he and his test engineers and product engineers have seen immediate benefits from accelerating time to issue identification and resolution.
- How the system is being expanded to help test floor operations management monitor and improve OEE (Operation Equipment Efficiency.)
- How communications with his test subcontractors around the world have been improved.
- How he plans to build upon this foundation to deploy advanced adaptive test methods that will dynamically reduce test cost and improve product quality.
Andrew's experiences using TestScape are most important to Pintail, because Andrew has had many years of experience using other best-of-class commercial systems. As is true with almost everyone in the industry, Andrew had never seen what it was like to receive pre-processed, well organized test data in true real-time. Without direct experience, it was hard to quantify the amount of time being spent each day chasing data and trying to resolve issues.
Bottom-line reported by Andrew is "The speed is astounding and exceeds our original expectations!"
Other TestScape customers are reporting that their test and product engineers are saving a huge 8 hours per week compared with other analysis tools! That's a 20% productivity improvement, not to mention faster yield ramp times and the improve quality and coordination with suppliers that also is achieved.
To request a copy of this TestScape Case Study by Andrew Bruno, simply respond to this email with the word "FAST" and I will send you the complete report.
If you'd like to arrange a demo, we can easily schedule this with you via a WebEx session. Let me know if you are interested. |
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Give Kevin Miles a call at (408) 812-1526 to schedule a demo at our booth #224.
We'd like to meet you personally at ITC.
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