About Us

During three intensive months the Digital Academy has assigned a cross-functional team consist of people from different parts of an organization to analyse de feasibility of one of the most complex project proposed during Ahaus event, the Virtual Lab.digital academy TUV NORD GROUP

The team is composed of two innovation managers from Industrial Services as well as two senior engineers from the Aerospace, with the support of most of the technical staff from Alter Technology test laboratories.

The project mainly has focused in the test related to Alter Radiation Laboratory,

OUR TEAM

Why Choose Us

ALTER TECHNOLOGY TÜV NORD is an expert and trusted supplier in the field of engineering and testing of EEE components and equipment for space and other technologies markets. Alter Technology offer a wide range of services, from parts procurement to equipment testing, including radiation, packaging design and assembly, screening, destructive physical analysis, qualification, environmental testing, failure analysis, obsolescence management, counterfeit assessment and many more. Our quality and environmental policy aims at continuous improvement of our processes to fully satisfy our customers by providing the best state-of-the-art and technologically advanced services.

How Its Works

The system is designed as a virtualization of testing laboratory, that means the any customer may access to a certain service through the web without the need to invest on expensive equipments neither the need to be physically present during test execution. virtual-lab-alter-technology-demo

The main characteristics that this new service will provide to the client is:

  • On-line monitoring: The platform will make possible to record and monitor in real time the results of the test conditions to be implemented as well as the intermediate results or the running tests.
  • On-line tracking: customer to access at any time to the information related to the status of the test
  • Big Data Analysis: Simulating a component’s behaviour before actually testing it can greatly improve design efficiency by making faulty designs known as such, and providing insight into the behaviour of electronics circuit designs.
  • On-line set-up description: The complete set-up description: instrumentation, software and interface definition will be accessible through the platform.
  • Artificial Intelligence:  In combining machine learning (inputs and outputs) with analytics (behaviours) to facilitate decision making, you have the power to unlock the patterns in this data and improve testing efficiencies
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How Its made

Electronics have become an integral part of our lives, as standalone consumer and communications electronics devices and as components in vehicles, homes or industry. Electronics development and production are impossible without test and measurement equipment. The complexity of electronic-device testing varies widely, ranging from the simplest type—manual testing—to the most complex—large-scale automatic test equipment (ATE). Manual testing typically requires DVMs, oscilloscopes, and other equipment set up in a particular configuration. When the device type to be tested changes, you usually need to change the test hardware. ATE testers, on the other hand, provide tremendous flexibility, allowing many different types of devices to be tested without changes to the test hardware. But, these testers can cost upwards of a million dollars.

To solve this complexity, Virtual Lab covers the most critical needs of testing infrastructures in domains such as:

  1. Automatic Testing Equipment (ATE)
  2. Electronic Test and Measurement Equipment
  3. Data Acquisition
  4. Computing Platforms
  5. Data Storage Architectures
  6. Compute Provisioning and Management
  7. Networks and Communication
  8. Data Analytics

Making simple the access to all the results from a single platform. The power of Virtual Lab is not only the instrumentation behind the platform, but the access to predictive analysis. Data analytics (DA) can help understand and gain insights from the big data and in turn help advance towards modelling and simulation for a better decision making.

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Vision: With the Virtual Lab platform our labs will be virtually present for our customers anywhere, anytime in the world.

Pains/challenges

CUSTOMER

  • Complicated testing process
  • Expensive due to travel costs for equipment and people
  • Time consuming (test execution and data analysis)
  • Long time to market

 

ALTER TECHNOLOGY

  • Limited market coverage due to high travel efforts and expenses
  • Lower efficiency
  • Less competitiveness

Current status/roll out

STATUS END OF 2017

  • Successfully acquired the first two paying key-customers
  • Mock Up developed

NEXT STEPS

  • 2018: Pilot with ATN Radiation Lab
  • 2019: More tests, conection with doEEEt: AI and Big data
  • 2020: New services to access new markets
  • 2023: Digital Twins: digital simulation and testing

FURTHER DEVELOPMENT

  • 20xx: TNG wide platform: transferable platform concept

Solution/benefits

PROCESS/FEATURES

  • Digital platform virtually connecting the customer machine with ATG testing facilities in real time

BENEFITS FOR CUSTOMER

  • Real-time tracking
  • Predictive Analysis and Data Mining
  • Faster time to market at lower cost
  • Access to results and tests comparatives

BENEFITS FOR TNG

  • First actor providing this kind of technology
  • Access to new customers worldwide
  • BIG DATA platform
  • Internal efficiency impovement

Business case

FINANCIAL FACTS

  • Almost double turnover in two years (in the testing area)
  • The total expected investment will reach 625K€

RESOURCES NEEDED

  • Costs for platform development: 125K€ per year during the five year of project implementation
  • Human Resources: 2 people per year during the while project implementation

To learn more about Virtual Lab, Industry 4.0 download our PDF presentation.

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