Proligent - The Next Generation Test Platform

Available success stories :

	Decoma
	Harris
	Optovia
	Honeywell Aerospace

Using Proligent to organize, automate, supervise and improve outsourced test activities

"We easily add new products and new product versions to our production floor located across the continent. Our Contract Manufacturer uses Proligent to monitor product test data for process improvement. In addition to being stable and user-friendly, Proligent is also flexible and expandable."

Sultan McDoom, Vice President, Product Development, Optovia Corporation

Overview
Optovia starts manufacturing a new line of optical products by relying on Proligent to organize, automate and manage their test activities, performed in their own R&D labs and at remote CM facilities.

The context
Optovia Corporation is a leading developer of optical transport subsystems for telecommunications carriers, cable provider networks, and corporate enterprise applications. The company's patented Hut-Skip solution provides significant capital and operational savings and performance benefits over existing amplification products and technologies.

As Optovia introduces new products to market, engineering considerations regarding test automation and its deployment over the CM sites naturally led the test engineers to adapt to Proligent to address challenges such as test definition and execution management, centralized data collection and reporting, traceability of specifications to test results, and synchronization of test sequences, instrumentation automation software and test results with remote test stations located at CM sites.

Designing test stations that enforce visibility and quality at remote CM sites
Adopting a scalable and flexible test process automation platform like Proligent during design, prototyping and production phases of a product is a key element in meeting stringent schedules and cost constraints. Proligent was configured and deployed for Optovia within a few months. It interfaced with their existing infrastructure while adding a complete modularity, traceability and configurability of test process.

Deploying a well-managed test process to multiple test stations was a straightforward step, based on Proligent’s well tested and proven modules incorporating best practices of test engineering. Proligent brought a traceable and auditable test process that also features strong failure and repair capabilities. While providing a complete access to test floor workflow and test data and results, Proligent provided a series of built-in reports for WIP, yield analysis and SPC capabilities at a very low cost.

Proligent is a modular and distributed test process automation software that runs on multiple nodes with a highly flexible physical architecture. This enables Optovia to deploy and execute its quality testing process at multiple test stations, some of which are located at remote CM sites.

Conclusion
Proligent software allowed Optivia to continue using their existing instrument automation test modules and enabled them them to deploy their test strategy and process at multiple locations quickly. It provided them with complete visibility of CM site testing and a full access to test results. Proligent’s open architecture and quick configurability rendered the whole test process very easy to manage for Optovia.

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