Case Study: Global Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) Company achieves 6-month faster time-to-market with Keysight PathWave Manufacturing Analytics

Global EMS Manufacturer Reduces Time to Market Using PathWave Manufacturing Analytics

Global Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) Company, a global EMS manufacturer of aerospace boards, faced slow, error-prone manual processing of in-circuit test (ICT) measurements, difficulty fine-tuning tests, high false-failure retest rates and an 18‑month time to market. To address these challenges they turned to Keysight and its PathWave Manufacturing Analytics solution.

Keysight’s PathWave Manufacturing Analytics automated ingestion of ICT log files, generated Cpk reports in seconds, and provided sortable Cpk tables, scatter plots and false-failure Pareto analysis so engineers could rapidly debug and optimize tests before mass production. As a result, the EMS company achieved >90% FPY across five projects (with >97% expected in upcoming builds), cut time to market from 18 to 12 months (a 6‑month reduction), lowered retest/false‑failure rates and saved engineering effort (about three hours per system per day on average).