Hello Stephen

First, I would not buy a machine which covers "almost all boards", you need
a machine which covers ALL boards, don't you ?

Programming is pretty straightforward, make sure you put everything in the
form of procedures to standardize things. It is easy to "customize" the test
parameters, too easy.

not sure who number one is just now but there are more machines out there
then the two you mention.

A guess at the near term future...good chance that the industry will buy a
multiple of these machines per site, just like we do not think much about
having a roomful of drills.

hope this helps

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen R. Gregory [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Subject:      [TN] Flying Probe Testers...
>
> Hi ya'll!
>
> I know I asked about this before (maybe a year ago), but I'm gonna ask
> again.
> Flying Probe Testers is the subject.
>
> I know they're slower than ICT, but that's okay...we have a low-volume,
> hi-mix type of production, so that's not an issue.
>
> I guess what I would like to learn, is what machine is most user freindly,
> and what machine really has the flexibility to cover almost all boards?
>
> I've heard that programming these things can get pretty involved
> (understand
> that I'm not a test engineer, I was just asked to try and get some
> information about these machines).
>
> There's two manufactures of machines that I know about; Genrad's "Pilot",
> and
> a company  called Takaya that makes a series of different flying probe
> testers...they claim to be the number #1 supplier of flying probe
> testers...
>
> Is there any users of this equipment out there that would like to share
> the
> pro's and con's of these machines?
>
> 'preciate it!
>
> -Steve Gregory-
>
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