A New Approach To Instrument Automation: Unlocking Lean Hardware Testing Using A Plug and Play Solution To Automating Test Equipment

With every new technology inflection point, Test Engineering teams have embraced these benefits to  accelerate time to market, reduce costs, and build higher quality products.  Internet technologies, powered by the web browser and cloud computing ushered a new opportunity for organizations to further advance the productivity of the test engineering function while unlocking new capabilities associated with test data analytics and collaboration.  

GradientOne provides a new approach to simplify the adoption of web technologies in test engineering by giving customers a 'Plug and Play' solution to programming instruments using SCPI in three simple steps.  

1. Connect your instrument an internet-enabled computer (or the internet directly).
2. Install GradientOne's gateway software on the computer (or the instrument).
3. Open a web browser from anywhere, on any computer, and start using GradientOne's web app to write SCPI routines, automate instruments, and upload, index, and archive the results for long term storage.

The dividends this approach pays for customers compounds over several dimensions:

• Elimination of ongoing maintenance and development of a global test engineering solution.  Test engineers can focus on higher-value elements of their test development and interpretation of results, instead of building the "plumbing" of their test lab infrastructure.
• Simplified remote operation of instruments and test execution.  Whether it is operating RF chambers, running a battery of post-silicon validation tests remotely, or managing a production line, developing tests, scheduling instrument use, and viewing the results can all be done via a web browser from anywhere.
• Store and reuse test routines and libraries from the cloud.  Reproducibility and traceability are critical to ensuring quality.  GradientOne provides an easy way to automate the use of previously developed tests, incorporate revision control, link test results to specific test plans, etc.
• Improve quality with expanded analytical capabilities.  GradientOne offers customers the ability to analyze their test data using a variety of tools.  The near-infinite compute and storage of the cloud, coupled with standard functionality available in web browsers dramatically simplifies the steps needed for engineers to apply data analytics to gain insights into their product history and test results.

Whereas before, customers had to develop their own abstraction layers, API libraries, databases, and user interface/visualization tools, GradientOne has already taken care of this.  

Simply download the client software, open a web browser, and start running tests.  

You can try it here at our free customer facing demonstration site:  https://examples.gradientone.com

If you want to see how it works in your own lab, get started with a 14 day free trial.

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