Automated Test Equipment Blog Articles
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Reconfigurable I/O to the ATE is The Socket to The Ratchet Set
Everyone has probably been there. You have something you need to fix on your car’s engine. You buy a specific tool that allows you to correct whatever is wrong. Because it’s specialized, the tool is expensive, and when you’re done it is put on the shelf in your shed...
Automatic Test Equipment Tutorials – How To Videos Show Common Sense Solution
When budgets are tight you want to accelerate your objectives while maximizing return on your test investment. How do you solve automatic test equipment ATE problems like how maintaining multiple large test stands? Automatic Test Equipment Tutorial Videos Maintaining...
Left Behind by Unsupported, Legacy Automated Test Equipment?
Properly functioning equipment is critical to the combat effectiveness of military forces. Performing aviation maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) is essential to ensuring the mission readiness of electronic devices and flight control surfaces. MRO involves fixing...
5 Data Inputs from Aircraft to the Central Air Data Computer (CADC)
Since the Wright Brothers flew the first glider in 1902, the airplane has gone through many changes. In order to fly the highest, the fastest, the farthest, and carry the most payload, pioneers have pushed the limits with more powerful engines, lighter airframes, and...
Bridging the Lingo Gap for the Aerospace & Defense Newbie
As professionals in the aerospace and defense industry employed as the program managers or business development/sales of your company, your position requires you to interact with other defense company personnel and attend industry conferences. If you have been in the...
8 Reasons You Need To Invest in Industrial Automation
Industrial automation processes use control systems like computers or robots to monitor and handle processes and machines. Automation in the industrial workplace provides the advantages of improving productivity and quality while reducing errors and waste, increasing...
13 Considerations When Choosing Automated Test Equipment
After returning from a training mission, an F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot reports a problem he experienced with radar returns during the flight to his crew chief. The airman quickly goes to work running his tests to find the issue. At the aircraft’s Organizational...
Why Automation Solutions In A Production Environment Can Be A Difficult Task
Automated testing, especially in a production environment, requires expertise across many disciplines including automation and controls, instrumentation, data collection and reporting, mechanical fixturing, and software. All of these areas then need to be integrated...