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Reduce Risk for Electronics Automated Test Set Development

Engineers creating production test solutions for board electronics, system controllers and line replaceable units (LRUs), and power electronics systems need to reduce the cost and risk associated with developing and maintaining automated test sets (ATSs) that must last the lifecycle of the asset. Future-proofing the software architecture can account for the inevitability of instrumentation obsolescence. The key requirements for a solution like this are:

 

  • A modular software architecture and reusable libraries to accelerate development across multiple projects and programs.
  • Collaboration features for numerous and often geographically dispersed developers who are working in multiple languages.
  • Minimal time and risk involved in adding new system capabilities or managing obsolete instrumentation.   

Electronics Manufacturing Test Solution for Aerospace and Defense

  • Off-the-shelf application software provides a higher-level starting point for test.
  • Custom software can be created with modern development environments such as LabVIEW, C, C#, Python, and more.
  • InstrumentStudio™ software helps monitor and interactively debug system errors.
  • SystemLink™ software helps you create deployment packages, manage system configurations, streamline data aggregation and insight, and connect to manufacturing execution systems (MESs).

Solution Advantages

  • Offers the only full suite of modular software for production test of electronics systems for aerospace and defense including hardware integration, code modules, test executives, system management, and MES integration.

  • Creates comprehensive hardware and measurement abstraction layers, code modules, sequencing engines, and automation frameworks.

  • Customizes the solution by integrating hardware from different vendors and code from different languages into a single test program set (TPS).

  • Deploys packages, manage system configurations, streamline data aggregation and insight, and connect to MESs with SystemLink software.

" Our Automated Test Engineering team was able to achieve up to 60 percent code reuse for each automated test and reduce overall test development time by up to 9X. Using the NI certification program, coupled with in-house training, we were able to develop the skills necessary to produce robust, flexible code—and maintain it across more than 200 test benches."

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BUILD YOUR SOLUTION WITH THE NI ECOSYSTEM

NI offers a variety of solution integration options customized to your application-specific requirements. You can use your own internal integration teams for full system control or leverage the expertise of NI and our worldwide NI Partner Network to obtain a turnkey solution.

NI Partner Network

The NI Partner Network is a global community of domain, application, and overall test development experts working closely with NI to meet the needs of the engineering community. NI Partners are trusted solution providers, systems integrators, consultants, product developers, and services and sales channel experts skilled across a wide range of industries and application areas.

Services and Support

NI partners with you throughout the life cycle of your application by delivering training, technical support, consultation and integration services, and maintenance programs. Accelerate your learning with our company-specific and geographic user groups. Build proficiency with online and in-person training options.

Aerospace and Defense Electronics Manufacturing Test Solution Brochure

Learn how you can reduce the cost and risk associated with developing and maintaining automated test sets (ATSs) that must last the lifecycle of your test system. NI’s solution for ATS and test program set (TPS) development scales to meet your current and future electronics test needs.