| In a world with increasing global competition, survival
means constant improvement in production to hold your place
among competitors. WATS users already appreciate the product’s
ability to automate test data management and make yield, cpk,
general SPC and test and production data easily accessible
through your web browser.
WATS release 3.0 adds a number of innovations that make
test data management even smoother – and give you
the control and overview you need to add value in your operations
New WATS Dashboard Design – more intuitive,
fewer clicks
The WATS 3 Dashboard has a new design that lets you access
the information you need with fewer clicks. It also makes
possible a tighter link between reports – which increases
drill down ease and functionality.
The Dashboard (earlier called the Control Panel) makes
use of an improved design with a right click menu that allows
you to open reports in a new window and complete with filter
and selected values.
New reports -- OEE, Total process yield –
and new functionality
New reports and functionality improvements support the
power of the Dashboard. New reports include Overall Equipment
Effectiveness (OEE), for analyzing the utilization effectiveness
of your test stations, and Total Process yield. New functionality
improvements include Test Step yield and analysis, and Product
& Test Yield. WATS 3 also lets you create a failure
code with customer descriptions where you can tag the code
with failure type. A range of new filter options for Unit
Under Test (UUT) Reports, Serial Number History, Test Step
yield & analysis, Product & Test yield, and Product
by Revision yield are also available.
“One of the new report possibilities, an analysis
of OEE, makes it easier for our customers to plan production
ramp ups, as well as more effectively utilize their existing
test equipment,” says Virinco Product Manager Tom
Andres Lomsdalen.
System manager
The WATS Dashboard module now includes a Systems Manager
that has a tree view displaying all Test Stations and Local
Servers connected to WATS.
“In the System Manager, customers now get a total
overview of all sites and test stations, as well as an indication
of whether they are offline or online, their operational
status, and also downtime, among other indications,”
states Virinco Technical Manager Richard Pettersen. “This
means that with the new WATS 3 it’s easier to handle
and maintain a large number of test machines and servers.”
Upgraded Captain’s View
The Captain’s View has been upgraded to match the
WATS 3 database structure, including a repair report window
at the “WATS UP” start-up page with added drilldown
functionality. An updated database structure allows better
data retrieval performance and a new structure decreases
overall database size.
Transfer method enhancements that are now part of WATS
3 let you transfer new repair reports, improve traceability
and give improved performance.
Reactions on WATS 3.0
“What we’re after is the ease of drilling down
in the data – getting the most relevant info using
the fewest possible clicks,” says Tom Andres.
“WATS 3 introduces much exciting news that we believe
our customers will like,” says Tom Andres. “We’ve
already gotten positive feedback from our pilot customers
and others who’ve had a presentation of the new WATS
3 capabilities. Some of these include a user interface on
the WATS Dashboard that provides simpler drill down functionality,
an overview of all test machines that are connected to WATS,
an Overall Equipment Effectiveness analysis and our new
Product Rules & State module.”
“We’ve received a range of concrete input on
what works well on WATS today, what we can do even better
and which direction we should go for the future. This input
will help us as we continue to develop WATS as the most
powerful test data tool for monitoring products, production
and quality,” he adds.
View
the complete release overview in PDF.
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