FLYING PROBE TEST – PILOT NEXT>

PILOT NEXT>Series is the new generation of flying probers featuring a renovated and sleek look thanks to the premium materials of the chassis, and innovative electrical worth discovering performances, undoubtedly the most complete flying probing test platform on the market.

Different Architectures for diverse Solutions:

PILOT VX NEXT>

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PILOT V8 and PILOT V4 NEXT>

optimize the test of “double-side” electronic boards, which require stimulus and measurement on both sides of the UUT simultaneously. The use of 8 (V8) or 4 (V4) probes distributed on both sides of the Unit Under Test enables full test coverage as well as faster test time, and the vertical architecture minimize vibrations during testing, ensuring maximum test precision and measurement stability.

Pilot V4: 2 probes top + 2 probes bottom; manual handling
Pilot V8 Manual/V8 Automatic: 4 probes top + 4 probes bottom; automatic handling.

PILOT H4  NEXT>

Horizontal solution  available in manual or automatic version. Completely compliant with the SMEMA protocol, ensuring complete automation of the in-line test process. It has an architecture which permits the integration of additional pins and jigs to augment test coverage or to integrate other processes, such as on-board programming (OBP) of digital devices.

Pilot H4 Manual: 4 probes and manual hand ling
Pilot H4 Automatic: 4 probes end automatic handling

PILOT BT NEXT>

EV Battery Test system designed to measure the electrical connections of battery packs. It performs parallel and high-resolution Kelvin tests of 16 cells at once in its maximum configuration of 4 flying fixtures on the four heads.  It can achieve high production rates of nearly 2400 battery cells per minute.

Pilot BT: EV Battery Tester

FLYING PROBE TEST CHARACTERISTICS

The PILOT NEXT>SERIES systems integrate improved RGB lighting: the advanced filters and color programming options allow the user to achieve the best conditions for automatic optical verification of component and solder presence.

VIVA NEXT> software can call , during test program execution, functional test sequences written using third party languages: for example Labview, VBScript, Python, and C, allowing the user maximum test flexibility. The PILOT NEXT>SERIES systems also offer fully integrated On Board Programming solutions, applied to the UUT via the mobile system

The Automated Laser Inspection option provides an accurate measure of the height of objects, providing an additional test for presence/absence of component bodies, PCB thickness and warpage measurement. Fast and reliable, it can be also applied to any mechanical assembled part on the PCB. Available for both Top and Bottom sides.

The LED sensor option is used for testing the LEDs present on the UUT. The UUT is powered on, and the LED sensor measures luminosity, color, saturation and frequency spectrums of the LEDs, operating in the visible and infrared light range of wavelengths.

The PILOTNEXT>SERIES systems include a series of hardware and software features and performances to support full traceability of the test results of each single UUT: the cameras automatically read 2D barcodes allowing test results to be stored for each board, making them available for subsequent repair operations, statistical analysis, etc., whether locally, via the resident repair station module, or to external information systems.

The architecture of the PILOT NEXT>SERIES offers the possibility to execute parallel testing of two single or double-side boards. This capability has a significant impact on test throughput, doubling it in the first case, and in the second case, achieving a significant increase, as well as the ROI of the test system.

The PILOT NEXT>SERIES systems are equipped with high definition color cameras which, together with new, sophisticated software algorithms, enable an advanced level of optical inspection of the UUT, complementing the electrical tests with the verification of presence/absence, polarity.

The thermal Scan module verifies the operating temperatures of the circuits and components on the UUT, comparing them to the temperature profile acquired on a powered on sample board. Like all other test techniques available in VIVA NEXT>, thermal scan tests are fully integrated into the complete test program for the specific board.

The optional UUT test marker can be installed on any PILOTNEXT>SERIES system, for visual test traceability and subsequent identification purposes.

FLYING PROBE TEST: WHY AND WHICH SYSTEM?

FLYING PROBE TEST ENVIRONMENTS

MANUFACTURING, REPAIR, REVERSE ENGINEERING, PROTOTYPING and NEW  PRODUCT INTRODUCTION (NPI), are typically the  environments where PILOT NEXT>Series are implemented. The Seica VIP platform software, VIVA NEXT> series, common to all of the PILOT NEXT>Series systems, allows a completely versatile test approach, from simple ICT to functional tests, from automatic, net-oriented tests to the reconstruction of the data and electrical schematics of boards coming from the field.

MANUFACTURING: the evolution of the test algorithms and strategies present in the VIVA software mean that the PILOT NEXT>Series testers provide fast, high performance production testing. The diverse, integrated test technologies such as optical inspection, thermal analysis, boundary scan, power-on functional test, and the possibility to include other processes such as On-Board Programming (OBP), allow the user to streamline the various production phases, optimizing process time.

REPAIR: There are different types of requirements for diagnosing faulty boards, depending on the characteristics of the boards themselves and the specific repair situation (manufacturing defects, field returns, repair depot, etc.).
ThePILOT NEXT>Series line has an extensive tool set developed to address all of the repair scenarios, and the intrinsic flexibility of the flying probe test approach allows the user to implement from one to all of the test techniques available, to optimize the repair process and results.

PROTOTYPING AND NPI: by exploiting the versatility of the PILOT NEXT>Series hardware and software, it is possible to obtain immediate data from the testing of prototypes, avoiding costs and time for building preliminary fixtures or test benches, ensuring maximum fault coverage in the minimum time.

REVERSE ENGINEERING (RE): the necessity of managing field returns is a constant in today’s industy, and in some sectors, such as transportation, infrastructure, communication and defense, the repair returns are often older boards which do not have complete documentation, schematics or construction data. The double-side solutions offered in the PILOT NEXT>Series line are ideally suited to carry out reverse-engineering operations, and include all of the necessary software tools to enable the reconstruction of the electrical schematics and the CAD data of the board under repair.