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Real-time test controller

  • US 6,557,115 B2
  • Filed: 11/14/2001
  • Issued: 04/29/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/10/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for testing manufactured products, comprising:

  • conducting at least one diagnostic test on a manufactured product at each of a plurality of testing locations;

    moving the manufactured product between the plurality of testing locations;

    storing test failure data indicative of failure rates of previously failed diagnostic tests conducted at each of the plurality of testing locations from previous test runs;

    reading, before the beginning of the current test run, a selected amount of the stored test failure data indicative of failure rates and determining an optimum sequence for using the plurality of diagnostic tests in the current test run by sorting the diagnostic tests in order of the failure rates of the previously failed diagnostic tests; and

    moving the manufactured product between the plurality of testing means in accordance with the optimum sequence for using the plurality of diagnostic tests in the current run.

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