Shrinking Test Targets Perhaps the most obvious trend in PCB manufacturing in recent years has been the ever-smaller targets that bed-of-nails fixtures must hit to execute a test. Design engineers ...

In-circuit test (ICT) systems have been the leaders in using electrical means to look for structural defects in PCBs. They employ bed-of-nails fixtures to provide electrical access to as many as 7000 ...

Lightprobes are the optical counterpart of in-circuit tests probes (nails) used in ATE test fixtures. Three lightprobe models offer the capability of checking color and intensity of virtually any size ...

Circuit board test, like any step in the PCB assembly process, benefits from lean manufacturing practices that continually improve process steps. If lean manufacturing principles were applied to ...