HANDSCOMB CONSULTANTS
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EBC430 Semi-Automatic
Braking Test Station
This
equipment was installed at TRW Automotive Electronics in Birmingham. Handscomb
Consultants was involved primarily in the 
software element of the project.
The
equipment consists of 7 instruments, 3 PC cards, 4 wheel-speed generators and
load simulators. It can communicate with the unit under test via various
different protocols depending which product is being tested. There are
currently 4 test stations
Many
thousands of the braking product are tested each week, split into about a dozen
or so different variant types; test time is in the region of one minute. There
are heavy financial consequences if production of cars is stopped at these
factories.
This
is the final test stage before the units leave the factory. Final set-up of
parameters in the eeprom in the unit is performed. Also a check is made to
ensure all previous test stages have been passed. Only if it passes those as
well as this test stage is a label printed. This is a failsafe system. All test
results are archived against serial number so full traceability is possible.
Key Benefits of using
Handscomb Consultants
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Recommending the
most efficient testing regime. |
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Negotiating
changes to the specification where needed. |
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Analysing
weekly failure statistics, working out root cause of failures. |
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Liasing with
manufacturing, quality, product hardware & software, internal customers. |
EBC450 Braking
Electronic Test Section of Automated Production Line
This is a similar product but as part of
a fully automated production line. Communication with the line controller is
essential with a fail safe system so that no communication error or unusual
starting point can result in a faulty or untested unit being passed, or (less
importantly, but still significant) the production line freezing up.
Test
times are also critical since the throughput of the production line is
determined by the slowest process.