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July 2015 • SMT Magazine 15 ECHOSTAR: THE FuTuRE OF SuPPly CHAIN MANAGEMENT DONE RIGHT continues and checked some of the connectors and gave DD&TT a list of what things we need to look for before they roll out the productions. We're bringing new products here for these guys with- in the next month. Since I'm on site, I'm able to check it out and see that it meets our specifica- tions in terms of the quality, throughput, main- tenance procedures, etc. I'll also check their test procedures, the isolation on the chamber, along with several other things. They're getting the data for me. I just gave them a list with the things I want to look at before I sign it off and say I'm okay with it. What they're doing with this particular one is just a WiFi module that goes into a bigger product. This is the function- al performance level testing that they'll do on that particular module. Matties: so your job is specifically in test engineer- ing and test r&D? Moore: Yes, we have a test R&D group, so we design and develop solutions to help these vari- ous teams with automation efforts. Each of the factories we work with has its own design and development team, so I'll have my team partner with them and develop solutions. We develop something and they can have access to it. They can use it and do what they want with it. For instance, this barcode scanner that they have is the same scanner we use on our production tester. That's something we gave them. Matties: can they use it for other customers? Moore: That's the whole idea behind it. It's a help-me-help-you kind of thing. It's not just us comi ng up with good ideas; they have good ideas too. We each have some skin in the game and we come up with the best solution possible. No one owns it; it's both of ours. I might put it at Sanmina; I might put it at Jabil. They can put it on their other products. I don't care what they do with it, because we both had an interest in developing this, so it helps both of us. It helps them make money and it he lps us make money. FeAture Hercules automated test area.