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Access and Monitor your Test KPIs in One Place

Instrumental amplifies the power of test engineering teams by proactively detecting and alerting on shifts and drifts, supporting test time reduction, and automatically aggregating and reporting real-time test results for your entire team.

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TEST ENGINEER

Pain Points

  • Difficult to access siloed test data
  • Teasing out drift and tester issues is hard
  • Painful to optimize test parameters
  • No confidence in test effectiveness

With Instrumental

  • Aggregate and unify your testing data
  • Catch drift and shifts as they occur
  • Continuously improve specs and SOPs
  • Know which tests are effective (and which tests are not)

Aggregate and unify your testing data

Problem

It's difficult to access and report siloed test data, getting in the way of creating valuable new tests.

Solution

Tie your test data into a single digital thread, and allow easy access to other manufacturing teams via secure, out-of-the-box cloud platform.

Aggregate and unify your testing data

Catch drift and shifts as they occur

Problem

It's difficult to identify drift and tester issues from failures caused by quality or design issues.

Solution

Develop and maintain internal test data with monitoring and SPC alerts when drift or other issues arise.

Catch drift and shifts as they occur

Continuously improve specifications and SOPs

Problem

Painful to identify opportunities to adjust and optimize test parameters.

Solution

Know which specs and metrics to tune to improve coverage and minimize line disruptions.

Continuously improve specifications and SOPs

Know which tests are effective (and which tests are not)

Problem

Having complete confidence in which tests you can safely remove takes a long time.

Solution

Easily identify tests that are not capturing issues and correlations to improve cycle time.

Know which tests are effective (and which tests are not)
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Instrumental helped us quickly identify major impacts to our units and gave us data to back up what to do next.”

CHRIS FISHER

Senior Test and Quality Manager, Puffco
Case Study: PUFFCO

Instrumental helped Puffco streamline defect detection and failure analysis during the NPI build of a first-generation product.

During an NPI build, Puffco found that a complex product design and pandemic-induced travel barriers limited their ability to gather data on underperforming units. But by working with Instrumental, Puffco gained immediate insight into the underlying issue, discovered root cause in record time, and implemented process changes to improve product performance.

Travel barriers weren’t the only challenges facing Chris Fisher, senior test and quality manager at Puffco, during their NPI build. The product had a complex design process that was difficult to translate remotely to their overseas manufacturing partner, and they soon discovered there was significant variation in the product performance.

The team spent over three months trying to discover the issue on their own — even inserting a tiny microscope into the assembled unit to get visual confirmation of the root cause — with no luck.

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Instrumental helped Puffco streamline defect detection and failure analysis during the NPI build of a first-generation product. Instrumental helped Puffco streamline defect detection and failure analysis during the NPI build of a first-generation product.

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