WATS – Virinco AS

Overview

Got the feeling that you are drowning in test data? Does test data handling take too much of your time? Do you want to focus more on test development than reporting?

WATS is an off the shelf Test Data Management software which easily integrates with NI TestStand. WATS automates test data management and makes yield, cpk, general SPC and test & production data easily accessible through your web browser.

WATS can scale from a single test station to collecting data globally from your production sites.

Read more and see an online presentation at www.virinco.com/wats

WATS CP - Web based control panel and reporting services

The Control panel (CP) is the administration and reporting tool in the WATS system. The primary intention for CP is to give the users a quick overview of the products & production, statistics and extract test data in various ways. Read more at http://www.virinco.com/wats/CP

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WATS TS - Test station with NI TestStand adjustments and additional steps

NI TestStand is a ready-to-run test management environment for automating your test and validation systems. NI TestStand is used to develop, manage and execute sequences, which integrate test modules written in any programming language, and specify sequence flow, reporting, database logging and connectivity to other enterprise systems. NI TestStand is designed to maximize test-code reuse through built-in language adapters and simplify maintenance by using a modular fully customizable test-system framework.

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WATS TS is the test station component that adds new functionality to TestStand. The easy installation and sophisticated integration allow you to install WATS on the test computer and run your existing test sequence files logging data to WATS. No additional programming required.

The WATS client DB structure is based on the original DB structure shipped with TestStand. This allows you to use any default step types or take advantage of the new and improved WATS steps like Multiple String Value and XY Graph step.

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You do not have to worry about creating new db structures or datasets to introduce new UUT tests or sequence files.

WATS integrates variables to store additional UUT information like part number, revision, sequence file version, UUT uC sw version and so on. Read more at http://www.virinco.com/wats/TS

AboutVirinco

Virinco is a leading test data management and engineering services provider that develops test, measuring and electrical equipment. Virinco offers hardware and software systems integration and consulting services, as well as developing and marketing products like WATS.

Our costumers are mainly in the telecom, offshore, defence, aerospace and science industries.

Conclusion

WATS is an off the shelf Test Data Management software that easily integrates into test equipment using TestStand, and report test and production data to one master server. Reports or warnings are then based on real time data.

WATS provides decision makers in all parts of the organization easy access to both real-time and historical data.

Benefits:

• Test data from ongoing production is collected from multiple sites and test stations simultaneously
• Single tests and trends can be reported in near real time
• Web based reporting technology
• Uses standard database technologies
• Internet and IP technology ensures online data

• High level of control on product and production quality
• Production abnormalities is revealed immediately
• Low-price installation and maintenance
• Reduction of time from error situations to a solution
• Easy access to analysis for optimizing product development

Please visit www.virinco.com/wats or send a message to virinco@virinco.com for more information.

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