• "Automated Test Outlook 2013" examines the latest business strategies, architectures, computing, software, and I/O influencing today's and tomorrow's electronics industries.
• NI draws on decades of experience in automated testing to forecast trends based on its business relationships, internal experience, and third-party research.
National Instruments (Nasdaq: NATI) today released its “Automated Test Outlook 2013” report highlighting the company's research on recent test and measurement technologies and methodologies.
The report examines trends affecting markets such as aerospace and defense, automotive, consumer electronics, semiconductors, telecommunications, and transportation. Engineers and managers can use the report to take advantage of the latest strategies and best practices that help optimize any test organization.
“Automated Test Outlook 2013” covers the following trends:
Test Economics: New investment models force testing departments to rethink how they measure success.
High volume of analog data: Market leaders leverage information technology infrastructures and analytics tools to make faster decisions based on test data.
Software-Centric Ecosystems: Open, software-centric ecosystems have a huge impact on the value derived from automated test systems.
Test software quality: Engineers use software development best practices to ensure test system reliability for complex systems.
Moore's Law meets RF: New technologies and instrumentation platforms increase the performance and reduce the cost of RF test equipment.
The Automated Test Outlook report is based on input from academic and industry research, user forums and surveys, business intelligence, and customer advisory board reviews.
Using this data as a foundation, the report provides a broad representation of the new generation of trends for addressing business and technical test and measurement challenges.
To view “Automated Test Outlook 2013,” readers can visit www.ni.com/ato.
