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DiagnoSYS Systems Names Jim Duich
To Put Transportation Sector on Growth Track
Kissimmee FL (June 15, 2006) - With rising gasoline prices making public
transportation more attractive in many communities, DiagnoSYS Systems, a world leader in electronics
test solutions, named Jim Duich Director of Sales, Transportation and Telecommunications, to spearhead
growth in the transportation sector. Duich will concentrate on working with the manufacturers and
subcontractors of all transportation systems, including railcars, buses, and related facilities. This
can include companies that produce transportation vehicles as well as those who provide equipment for
electronic signage, fare collection and other systems related to public transportation, such as controls
and passenger information.
"Every major metropolitan area in the United States is looking at some form of public
transportation system to move people more efficiently, relieve traffic congestion and reduce
gasoline consumption," said Tim Webb, President, DiagnoSYS Systems, Inc. "As governmental
or quasi-governmental agencies, they are under pressure to operate as cost-efficiently as possible
to pay their own way and attract riders."
This is where DiagnoSYS and its PinPoint II electronic tester can play a key role in the
revitalization of urban and regional public transportation.
"The transportation market is a tremendously good fit for DiagnoSYS for circuit card repairs,"
Duich said. "If you look just at railcars for commuter rail, light rail or people movers; they have
electronically controlled electric propulsion systems to move them and electronic signage to keep passengers
informed about location and upcoming stops.
"Then," he continued, "you have signage in the stations and the move to electronic fare
collection systems that give riders more options in paying for their transportations through a single network.
The agencies that operate transit systems end up with a high mix of circuit cards with a mid-level volume, and
that's the niche for the PinPoint II, especially for transportation systems that have older cars in service."
While rail cars have an average service life of 40 years, he pointed out, some transportation systems
have 60-year-old cars in service, and many of those cars may have outlived their vendors. PinPoint II's
reverse engineering capabilities can help maintenance technicians generate schematics for undocumented
cards and perform repairs in house.
"This capability alone can be a big benefit to having a PinPoint II," Duich said. "A maintenance
department can't repair a card if there's no schematic or tester from the equipment manufacturer, so they usually
send them back to the OEM, which typically charges a flat rate for repairs or exchanges. That can be a steep cost.
Now they can bring the repairs in house to control costs and get cards and parts back in service faster just as
the military and aviation industry do.
"The circuit card itself and the repair may be inexpensive," he added, "but it's the cost of
taking a rail car out of service that really hurts a transit authority's operating budget. If a shop can diagnose
a fault to a component, total repair is a day or two, and that really helps the bottom line, especially when a
maintenance department can repair a higher percentage of boards."
Duich said that the ability to supply a multi-functional tester, such as the PinPoint II or DiagnoSYS
Systems' S-500 functional tester, would streamline maintenance operations. Most rail car contracts, he noted,
call for the suppliers of various systems to provide testers, and that can lead to a clutter of dedicated test
systems along with the need to train technicians on several types of machines.
"Settling on one or two testers saves floor space, which is great for a car builder or refurbisher,"
he said. "If a manufacturer needs to supply a tester, this is one that can fit all the sub-systems, and it
saves end users money because they don't have to pay for multiple testers from each subcontractor. Also, once
people in the shop train on the tester, they'll all be more productive and able to work on a variety of cards
from many different products."
PinPoint II enables technicians to include functional edge card testing, VI analysis, boundary scan,
PXI integration and schematic reverse engineering in the same platform, and they can use clips, probes,
edge connectors and bed-of-nails fixtures. The TestVue 32 operating system provides clear menus and interactive
graphics to guide users through each stage of a test strategy, automatically generating on-screen prompts. Its
intuitive, Windows-based software environment ensures that programming a board can be completed in days to weeks instead of months.
PinPoint II has the ability to quickly generate Net List information and documentation, automatically
integrating them into the board program, where they can be used as a programming aid and to create schematics.
The "Power Off" signature analysis is ideal for testing before applying power to a board or discreet components.
The S-500 is a flexible and scalable high-performance functional test solution tailored to exact requirements for
Unit, Module and PCB test. It uses industry-standard hardware and software and can be configured to meet present needs or future redeployments.
About DiagnoSYS Systems, Inc.
DiagnoSYS Systems, Inc. is a provider of test solutions and services offering a full spectrum of products from board test to
telecom protocol testers and automated optical inspection (AOI) equipment. DiagnoSYS Systems, Inc. is located at 808 North Hoagland
Blvd, Kissimmee FL 34741 Tel: 800-788-6219 Fax: 407-846-6416 Internet:
www.DiagnoSYS-USA.com
e-mail:info@diagnosys-usa.com
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