WATS

Avantages

Provides an almost "codeless" solution for those looking to quickly store test data from TestStand / LabVIEW. The data that is stored is then able to be reviewed and analyzed quickly allowing us to respond to product yield or performance issues in a proactive manner. Critical for any complex high volume test solution.

Inconvénients

Inability to define (or add) custom queries or reports.

Avantages

very easy to bring the statistics for the period that the user is interested in. it gives graphic view for the measurements in the manufacturing , highlights the highest failing steps with failing rate.

Inconvénients

it needed to preload the sequence model in TestStand back when I was using it. If it can be a hot plug app that can be merge in after the test development, it'll be great!

Avantages

Easy to use and for looking information.
Great for SPC analysis and be proactive for production support.
Give us key parameters (yield, top 10 failures...) to improve our test bench and test software.

Inconvénients

Need training and practice to understand and find informations we are looking for.

Avantages

The level of automation to the test data management, easiness of cloud based service, no need to maintain tools

Inconvénients

Sometimes it feels that you have almost too much alternative approaches to get needed results so it's bit easy to lost in the GUI.

Avantages

Since switching to WATS, the data collection and collation has helped our production teams to truly understand some of the issues we were having. This helped our teams to focus on changes that helped with our assembly and test areas.

Inconvénients

Integrating with some of the other software platforms we already had in place was difficult at first and was a bit much having multiple resources giving us, effectively, the same information. However, once that was streamlined, it has become a vital tool.

Avantages

You can see all of your production and even what you can not imagine! Very friendly and analysis are good, specialy top 10failures.

Inconvénients

The dashboard is not very popular today and we can not set everything. But updates are preiodic and bring certanes new every time.

Avantages

Easy tool to check all the test results of different test stations

Inconvénients

Difficult to make a connection with another MES system

Avantages

SkyWATS makes it really easy to get test data in visual format and to actually make test data a business driving tool.

Inconvénients

The Mobile App of the SkyWATS could be a bit more user friendly.

Avantages

* Provides real-time feedback from our production sites.
* Easy and fast entry level of data analysis.
* Great export possibility’s to use data in mini-tab or such similar tools.
* Built in yield reporting tools

Inconvénients

* Missing functionality to be show part description instead of part numbers in reporting
* Report limits in export mode.
* Silverlight needed for some parts (minor)

Avantages

skyWATS is easy to integrate to any test system. The commissioning is simple and fast. You will gain benefits of the skyWATS very fast.

Inconvénients

The dashboard view could have more options, now it is a bit limited.

Avantages

Una de las cosas que más me gusta de esta herramienta es su capacidad para proporcionar estadísticas fácilmente y para el período de tiempo que el usuario necesita.

Inconvénients

En particular, he encontrado que la herramienta tiene demasiadas opciones que pueden ser difíciles de entender y de seleccionar correctamente. Esto puede hacer que sea fácil perderse en la GUI y perder tiempo tratando de encontrar la mejor manera de lograr los resultados deseados.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à WATS