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16 SMT Magazine • July 2015 portunity to alter or manipulate test results. We can also use this remote access for pushing Agile updates directly to the tester for factory qualifi- cation before formally releasing. The anti-virus definitions for the testers live in my lab on a server that sits right next to my office, so ev- ery one of their unit test systems being used for production gets connected with Denver to re- ceive the latest updates, multiple times per day. That's why I'm able to access it from anywhere in the world. Matties: You can do all this in real time? Moore: It's all real time. The relationship is such that they know what we're doing. There are no secrets; they know all the software I have on here and where it is. They have admin access to the machine to perform their job function, but don't have the only admin access. They are aware that I can monitor what they're doing. If someone is on there changing and manipu- lating stuff, I have visibility of that. All facto- ries are governed by a set of business rules. The Matties: Do you think this is a typical attitude that other oEms have? Moore: It isn't, and that's part of why we're able to be so successful, because when we come on the floor these guys don't hide from us. When I come out here, they don't send everyone home or send them to lunch. It's not hard to find them, and they're not hiding things for a couple reasons. I have access that allows me to see everything in the factory from my desk, or anywhere in the world that I log in. Matties: Explain how you do that. Moore: It works because of how I set it up. I have a firewall and a VPN tunnel that connects the entire test system back to Denver. We can use that for troubleshooting, monitoring and data extraction. The premise is simple—our product, our test system, our data. We get the initial copy of the data and provide a summary and raw data log to the factory. This ensures the operator or anyone else does not have an op- FeAture ECHOSTAR: THE FuTuRE OF SuPPly CHAIN MANAGEMENT DONE RIGHT continues one of many SMT lines.