LOWERING TESTING COSTS

Bed-of-nails are commonly used for testing PCBs using ICT/MDA techniques. Usually, it takes one or even several weeks to manufacture the bed-of-nails and the associated costs are high. Consequently, when ICT/MDA is used for low and medium volume production such as prototyping and NPI (New product introduction), unit test costs are very high and valuable time is lost waiting for the manufacture of the bed-of-nails. This results in reduced profits for your board assembly business. Since the APT-9411 series utilizing 4 high speed independently moving probes doesn’t require conventional bed-of-nails and begins to test right from the beginning of the board assembly by just creating the test program, the tester is ideally suited for high board mix prototype applications as well as low and medium volume production runs.