Test Fixture Design & Manufacturing
Custom Test Fixtures for Electronic Products
Cygnus designs and manufactures test fixtures for in-circuit and functional testing. Fixtures are developed around the customer's electronic assembly, test objectives, available test points and production requirements.
Capabilities
Fixture capabilities
- In-circuit test fixtures
- Functional test fixtures
- Vacuum-actuated fixtures
- Pneumatic fixtures
- Mechanically actuated fixtures
- Bed-of-nails interfaces
- Pogo-pin connections
- Automated test equipment interfaces
- Bench-top functional testers
- Gerber-based fixture development
- Analog, digital and RF test support
Process
How a fixture is developed
Each fixture follows a defined path from documentation review to production support.
- 01
Review Documentation
Gerber data, schematics, test points and product drawings.
- 02
Define Test Objectives
Coverage, fault types and pass/fail criteria.
- 03
Plan Test Access
Probe locations, access limits and board fixturing.
- 04
Design the Fixture
Actuation method, interface and tooling defined.
- 05
Build and Integrate
Fixture manufactured and wired to the test equipment.
- 06
Validate
Verified against known-good and known-bad assemblies.
- 07
Support Production
Maintained and updated as the product changes.
Discuss a Test Fixture
Send Gerber data and your test objectives and we will review fixture options and test access with you.