This is a Test: How to Tell if DFT and Test Are Adding Value to Your Company

As cost pressures on electronic products continually increase, the urge to trim investment in test-related circuitry, activity, and equipment increases correspondingly. Not only can this strategy backfire if taken too far, but it also ignores the opportunity for test to actually add value to products. This presentation will examine the positive role that test can play and give audience members a set of guidelines to take back to their own companies so that they can perform their own analyses. Numerous examples from a variety of different electronic industries show a wide range of possible solutions.