Hi Steve,

>your statement about Flying Probe testers is what I'm replying
>to you about. If I may, can I ask you what machine you bought? And what you
>think of it so far?

We bought a Genrad Pilot.
We had some problems at the installation of the machine (it was one of the
first machine with a conveyor in Europe and we had some software with a limited
time trial license) but now everything is working well and the machine is
giving "good" results.
The setup time is quite long and you need to get the information in the right
way from your design software.

>I think the way to go is functional testing of product and then use the Flying
>Probe to de-bug the functional failures...am I thinking correctly in my
>recommendation? Any other input that any other TechNetter has on this subject
>will be (as always) most welcome!

We work in another way:
we use the flying probe just before the functional testing because the test on
the flying probe takes about 2 min but our functional test last nearly half an
hour per board. So I think we win more money by testing the boards before the
functional test and by that way having less boards to debug and to re-pass at
the functional test.

Regards

Vincent Bada
Process Engineer
Alcatel Etca
Belgium

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