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Faster Testing. Fewer Errors. No Cable Flipping Required.USB-C is everywhere — powering laptops, phones, tablets, monitors, and more. It’s flexible and powerful, but with that comes complexity. If you’re managing production for USB-C devices, the challenge isn’t the port itself. It’s the testing.…

Introduction This case study presents how an automotive supplier was able to automate firmware and OS provisioning and End-of-Line (EOL) functional final assembly testing using Acroname industrial USB hubs and switches and their USB Host switching features.  This automation resulted in…

Multi-hosting on an Industrial USB HubIn modern manufacturing environments, devices often rely on local USB storage for configuration and firmware updates, data logging, and backup. It is often necessary to update or process this data by connecting the drives to another host, usually by manually…

How to monitor voltage and power with the GUI or Python Among other properties, we can view: Per-port Voltage Per-port Current Input Voltage Input Current Measuring voltage and current with HubTool If you haven't already, install HubTool, which is part of the Brainstem Dev…

ESD Mitigations with AcronameThe next-generation circuitry in today’s consumer and industrial electronics is smaller, faster, better. Consumers love the innovations. But test engineers are not as enthusiastic. Because that innovation comes with a striking downside: increased susceptibility to…

The need for USB-C and power delivery ports in automobiles is speeding up, and the auto industry is adapting to the new demands. As the engineer in charge of testing, you’ll need to up your automated validation testing game. We live in an on-the-go world, and our devices travel with us in our…

Kentigen, one of Acroname's partners supporting the test market in Europe, used MTM to solve a months-old problem of testing final assemblies for an automative infotainment system. Spoiler: Kentigen used MTM's modularized, miniaturized, and low-cost instrumentation as the heart of its system…

When it comes to advanced and cost sensitive electronic products, it remains vital to accurately test these devices during manufacturing and assembly to make sure they provide what the consumer expects and that each and every feature works how it should, right out of the box. The last thing a…

In this week's video, we show an example of testing LEDs in a board-level functional test system. We used a simple circuit board we created for testing a new light pipe design as an example. The video shows just how easily MTM can be used as an engineering tool and manufacturing test…

INTRODUCTION TO MTMAcroname, Inc. has been bringing robotics and automation systems into the hands of engineers for more than 20 years. Our customers include some of the largest corporations and research institutions in the world all the way down to elementary school students. We also advise and…