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SystemLink™ Software Workflows

SystemLink software connects teams and test systems, removing barriers across design, test, and production workflows. Improve asset utilization, decrease engineering time, accelerate proactive troubleshooting, and enable real-time information exchange to remain agile and deliver at the speed of digital.

 

Manage. Automate. Optimize. Achieve better outcomes— faster—throughout your testing and validation workflows.

  Test Lab Management Test Operations Visibility Product Data Analysis
Description
  • Centrally manage and support all test assets
  • Minimize standup and maintenance time
  • Maximize asset utilization
  • Ensure system configuration compliance
  • Efficiently manage, search, share, and analyze measurement data
  • Access centralized data when needed to eliminate costly test re-runs
  • Improve overall test execution, tracking, and test result management
  • Robust real-time dashboards
  • Automated reports with proactive notifications
  • Easily pinpoint anomalies and why they happened
  • Analyze all test data, current and past, for reporting DUT performance against spec
Capabilities
Asset installation history tracking     —
Asset utilization reporting     —
Automatic report generation       
Calibration event monitoring and alarming      —
Calibration forecasting reports      —
Centralized system configuration management   — —
Centralized software repository —   —
Custom dashboards      
Custom tags, alarming, and notifications      
Data ingestion and aggregation —    
Data inspection and visualization —    
Data normalization and augmentation —    
KPI monitoring dashboards (for example, throughput, OEE, first pass yield) —   —
Remote software deployment and updates   — —
Statistical and engineering analysis —    
System health monitoring dashboards and alarms     —
Test automation     —
Business Continuity
Access control      
High availability      
Remote management   — —
Backup and restore      
Data security      
Customer Success Services
Self evaluation      
Start-up assistance      
Pilot project      
Full solution implementation      
Data Practice
Analytics workflow design      
Accessibility and consumption      
Enterprise data modeling      
Data transport      
Data ingestion      
Dashboard and KPI development      
Data modeling and analytics      

Achieve and sustain operational excellence by using test and measurement data to increase production efficiency.

  Real-Time OEE Augmentation Yield Optimization Pattern Analysis/Outlier Detection Parametric Data Analysis
Description
  • Reduce false failures with data trend views
  • Proactively detect shifts that could lead to failures
  • Boost first-pass yield with real-time information
  • Augment critical KPI tracking (e.g. throughput, first-pass yield, failure rates, etc.)
  • Perform diagnosis-driven yield analysis
  • Leverage proactive alerting
  • Access smart KPI dashboards and trending information (e.g. Cp, Cpk, first-pass yield, second pass yield, etc.)
  • Quickly identify factors that cause anomalies, errors, or defects that cause a drop in quality or decrease in OEE
  • Easily distinguish between a symptom or an intermediate cause of a problem
  • Easily compare tests, current and past, across locations, lines and operators
  • Interactively analyze all inputs and test results in single view
  • View trends for test results over multiple test runs with drill down into multiple characteristics
  • Automatically calculate key statistcs
  • Easy access to all test results, current and past
Capabilities
Asset installation history tracking — — — —
Asset utilization reporting   — — —
Automatic report generation        —
Calibration event monitoring and alarming    — — —
Calibration forecasting reports  — — — —
Centralized system configuration management   —    
Custom dashboards        
Custom tags, alarming, and notifications     — —
Data ingestion and aggregation        
Data inspection and visualization        
Data normalization and augmentation        
KPI monitoring dashboards (for example, throughput, OEE, first pass yield)        
Remote software deployment and updates — — — —
Statistical and engineering analysis        
System health monitoring dashboards and alarms   —   —
Test automation        
Business Continuity
Access control        
High availability        
Remote management     — —
Backup and restore        
Data security        
Customer Success Services
Self evaluation        
Start-up assistance        
Pilot project        
Full solution implementation        
Data Practice
Analytics workflow design        
Accessibility and consumption        
Enterprise data modeling        
Data transport        
Data ingestion        
Dashboard and KPI development        
Data modeling and analytics        

Optimize test processes and analysis workflows, from concept to manufacturing, by leveraging data every step of the way. Minimize costs, maximize flexibility, and keep your systems current while adapting to shifts in business.

  Test Ramping Health Monitoring Data Collection and Data Integrity Correlation Analysis and Active Alerting Asset Utilization Optimization
Description
  • Optimize performance and usage of all test equipment
  • Ensure test station readiness
  • Remove time inefficiencies through automation
  • Track asset location and utilization in real-time for ready access
  • Minimize unplanned downtime and test reruns due to test system issues
  • Ensure test system health and maintenance to prevent erroneous results
  • Guarantee system health and test quality
  • Aggregate test system data into a central repository
  • Normalize all data, regardless of origin, format, or type
  • Describe information assets through metadata management
  • Easily access all test data
  • Robust operational dashboards
  • Automated reports with proactive notifications
  • Easily pinpoint anamolies and why they happened
  • Data-driven decisions—from capital expense planning to root-cause analysis
  • Improve asset ROI with real-time asset tracking
  • Make informed CapEx decisions with detailed utilization reporting
  • Understand how long assets are in use, frequency of usage, location, and how they are performing
Capabilities
Asset installation history tracking   — —    
Asset utilization reporting   — —    
Automatic report generation           
Calibration event monitoring and alarming      —    
Calibration forecasting reports      —    
Centralized system configuration management   — — — —
Custom dashboards          
Custom tags, alarming, and notifications     —    
Data ingestion and aggregation — —     —
Data inspection and visualization — —     —
Data normalization and augmentation — —     —
KPI monitoring dashboards (for example, throughput, OEE, first pass yield) — —     —
Remote software deployment and updates   — — — —
Statistical and engineering analysis — —     —
System health monitoring dashboards and alarms     —    
Test automation — — — — —
Business Continuity
Access control          
High availability          
Remote management     — — —
Backup and restore          
Data security          
Customer Success Services
Self evaluation          
Start-up assistance          
Pilot project          
Full solution implementation          
Data Practice
Analytics workflow design          
Accessibility and consumption          
Enterprise data modeling          
Data transport          
Data ingestion          
Dashboard and KPI development          
Data modeling and analytics          

Customer Success Services

  • Self-Evaluation: Online training, technical support, and forum access
  • Start Up Assistance: Basic installation, configuration, and tailored training 
  • Pilot Project: Advanced installation, configuration, integration, deployment, and custom training for one workflow at one location
  • Full Solution Implementation: Turnkey deployment and custom training for multiple workflows across multiple departments

Data Practice

  • Analytics Workflow Design: Workflow analysis, data needs and flow assessment, data visualization, and best practice sharing
  • Accessibility and Consumption: Identify user flows, data requirements, access control, an gap analysis 
  • Enterprise Data Modeling: Identify global scope of data, data flow, available sources, data architecture, and implementation recommendations
  • Data Transport: Analysis and design of the logical and physical connection points between processes, including the management of data in motion
  • Data Ingestion: Gap analysis, data engineering, modeling, and ingestion to a common repository or data store in support of required decisioning 
  • Dashboard and KPI Development: Develop standard dashboards and visualizations for common KPIs (for example, OEE, asset utilization, yield optimization, Cp, Cpk) 
  • Data Modeling and Analytics: Prepare data and build models for correlations, outlier detection, predictive maintenance, and more

Drive your business forward, faster with SystemLink Software.