How to Increase Throughput – Network Analyzer Applications
Application Notes
In today’s competitive environment, prices for electronic components are continually decreasing. Reducing manufacturing cost by improving throughput, while maintaining product quality, is an important goal for many production test engineers and managers. The topic of improving throughput is very broad, and it can span methods from how to minimize testing and the number of specifications to using just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing with a Kanban inventory-control system. This note will not cover broad throughput issues such as whether distributed testing versus centralized testing is more efficient or cost effective. Instead, this application note will focus only on test processes that include network analyzers.