Seica SpA @ Productronica, Munich

STRAMBINO, ITALY: Seica, world leader in the design and manufacturing of electric test solutions for electronic boards and modules, dedicates a specific space to automation, presenting the Pilot V8 Flying Prober with automatic loader, the innovative in-circuit and functional line tester, Compact SL, and the model Top-bottom of Firefly Laser Selective Soldering.

In addition, it will be possible to view the RTE-200 Boundary scan system, a combination of Analog test and Boundary scan performance.

Pilot V8 is the only ATE flying prober with vertical architecture equipped with 8 drive/sense flying probes, two supply probes, two for the vectorless test, two cameras and two temperature sensors, able to execute in-circuit testing, functional testing, boundary scan, optical and thermal scan on every kind of PCB.

When used for testing new PCB from new production batches, Pilot V8 offer extremely high capabilities, thanks to the parallel test performance, allowing the test of two PCBs simultaneously, doubling productivity and offering test times comparable with the standard bed of nails tester against a major fault coverage and improved mechanical accessibility to the PCB itself.

When used for the repair of boards from the field, Pilot V8 also allows the preliminary reverse engineering during testing, offering the possibility to reconstruct CAD project data and the wiring diagrams of the product to be tested, when these are not initially available for the preparation of the test program.

The new Pilot V8 Automatic, designed for those who want to maximize the yield of PCB high volumes test, has a special conveyor for the automatic transport of the PCBs and, combined with an external loading/unloading warehouse, allows the use of the test system without a dedicated operator.