EP1300A PathWave Lab Operations for EMC Test

Accelerate Your EMC Lab Operations

The trends for connectivity and more assisted and autonomous functions in vehicles, combined with the migration to electric vehicle (EV) technology created a surge in electronics installed on cars. Some of these electronic modules operate at high frequencies – telecommunications units, radar – and can generate unwanted in-band and out-of-band electromagnetic (EM) radiation. Additionally, regardless of their operating frequency, all components are prone to external and interfering radiation.

In the interest of best integrating such modules, electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and electromagnetic interference (EMI) testing is of paramount importance.

Connect People, Processes, and Results

Keysight’s PathWave Lab Operations for EMC connects people, processes, and results. It is a web-based lab management software designed specifically for EMC lab operations to help you better coordinate, improve, and streamline operations in your EMC lab. PathWave Lab Operations for EMC helps you optimize your lab workflows through the entire testing process. It helps you maximize the test throughput while reducing time to fulfill your projects on schedule.

Key features to support your lab management

Visibility

• PathWave Lab Operations for EMC will automatically transfer test requests to quotes. The overall lab calendar with intelligent auto-filtering, pre-selection, and suggestions supports smooth planning. It offers a consistent response to your adjustments and to the instrumentation downtime.

• Organize your test lab workflow, documents, lab orders, and tasks.

• Plan and optimize your test capacities and sequences. Easily plan, register, and track your tests and projects.

• Share and control test plans, results, data, and other documents.

Efficiency

• Assist you with preprocessed documents for reports, quotes, and statements of work (SoW).

• Generating and distributing reports automatically ensures prompt delivery of results, including supporting information.

• Quickly analyze your data and statistics. Reduce time for reporting significantly.

• Manage and route notifications to your preferred device or email service.

Flexibility

• Tailor the software layout by yourself, while the license structure allows you to conveniently scale this software solution with the size of your lab. Automated, networked, and scalable for any size of testing lab – up to thousands of channels.

• Remotely control your lab and its devices anywhere, anytime.

• Work efficiently thanks to a comprehensive suite of tools.

EP1301A Lab Operations EMC Base

Gain control and get a complete view of your lab

The EP1301A Base Module provides you a holistic view of your processes incl. information about assets, tests, workflows, and progress. The base module is the minimum required software license to be purchased. This license includes the following functions:

• Efficient planning: Test request incl. test plan provided by the software. Test scripts, execution, and tracking generated based on the customer request.

• Flexible scheduling: Overall calendar for allocating tests, staff, and assets

• Extensive Statement of Work (SoW) generation based on the customer request incl. necessary standard EMC tests that need to be executed.

Accelerate your EMC test lab operations by enabling seamless interaction between your lab and other departments and by simplifying the allocation, management and execution of tests and test plans between your laboratory staff. Synchronize assets and expertise to ensure completion of the right tests at the right time.

Figure 2 provides a screenshot of the Core Dashboard. Through this dashboard the user can navigate the test requests, the lab schedule, all executed and planned tests as well as the test definition and programming, and even find free timeslots for upcoming tests.

Extensions

EP1303A Reporting

Generating reports is a time-consuming task with a lot of potential for (human) mistakes. Especially when it comes to complex, sequenced tests, that need to be performed it can be challenging for the laboratory staff to generate the reports in time and to fulfill the project on schedule. The EP1303A Reporting extension enables advanced processing and distribution of test results with a sophisticated visualization UI and API for automated access.

Simplify your reporting preventing repetitions and human mistakes that cause delays. It helps you achieve test insights faster through automated report creation and distribution of results to the appropriate recipients. With just a few clicks you can:

• Automated test report generation based on the test results.

• Create reports through templates / visual editor

• Evaluate test results (red or green)

• Track your related tests