Test and Inspection Solutions for the Automotive Electronics industry

Very high product quality and reliability at low cost are key requirements for the automotive industry. Electronics are subjected to high stress thermal and vibration environments day after day and must continue performing reliably.

The result is a requirement for electronics assemblies to be thoroughly tested, but using tools and methodologies that are fast and cost effective. The ability to detect bad solder joints, including cracks or voids, misplaced, missing or incorrectly oriented components, including defects hidden by packaging or other board elements, is critical and it must be done fast and effectively in order to keep test costs low and avoid expensive warranty issues in the field. Power electronics can be particularly challenging.

This can often be beyond the capability of bed-of-nail fixture or flying probe based in-circuit test, resulting in additional test approaches being combined with in-circuit test, possibly including optical or X-Ray inspection, to fulfill the requirements.

GOEPEL Electronics' test and inspection products and services offer comprehensive solutions to these and other challenges: