A versatile, easy-to-use test and measurement process management application, Test SLATE is ideally suited for a wide range of testing applications and environments. It can run on virtually any desktop or enterprise-wide computer system using non-proprietary hardware, old or new. The intuitive, Windows®-based set-up will be familiar to anyone working in a Windows environment.

Major applications include:

The aerospace industry provides some of the most demanding testing challenges today involving critical issues include propulsion and airframe aerodynamics, heat transfer rates, and icing conditions. Increasing performance, environmental, and safety concerns are pushing test facilities to provide more and better data with fewer resources.

As a result, many aerospace test facilities need to provide improved functionality and capabilities. In the past, that has meant replacing test data acquisition and management systems at considerable capital expense. However, Test SLATE enables facilities to now significantly improve their systems and testing performance by seamlessly integrating a wide variety of existing legacy subsystems and new hardware using simple PCs and software with which users can quickly create sophisticated, automated test sequences that be changed on the fly, eliminating hours of costly programming revisions and test condition re-verification.

Today's motor vehicles are highly complex, computerized transportation tools with many systems and subsystems designed to provide power, braking, and improved overall control. As environmental concerns continue to grow over automobile emissions and gas mileage, the automotive industry is coming under increasing pressure to improve engine and powertrain performance, reduce emissions, and make cars and trucks safer. In addition, fierce competition has put enormous pressure on auto manufacturers to reduce costs while improving performance, both in the design and manufacture phases as well as on the road.

As a result, many automotive test facilities face a growing need to provide more and better test data and improve overall testing capabilities. In the past, that meant replacing test data acquisition and management systems at considerable capital expense. However, Test SLATE enables facilities to now significantly improve their systems and testing performance by seamlessly integrating a wide variety of existing legacy subsystems and new hardware using simple PCs and software with which users can quickly create sophisticated, automated test sequences that be changed on the fly, eliminating hours of costly programming revisions and test condition re-verification.

Test SLATE is ideally suited to provide auto manufacturers with crucial driveability, emissions, aerodynamic, thermodynamic, acoustic, climatic, and safety test data, at a cost five to ten times less than competing software applications. Test SLATE makes it easier to move road testing into the laboratory where it can be used to test at virtually any climatic condition that can be encountered anywhere in the world, saving even more time and money by eliminating expensive, time-intensive outdoor/location testing.

Today's world runs on moving parts — motors, turbines, pumps, transmissions, generators, valves, pistons, and bearings - to name just a few. And when components move, they are subject to a wide range of conditions — temperature, wear, stress, moisture, pressure, and more. Testing products under development is one thing, but testing products after manufacture is quite another. Test SLATE is designed for exceptional flexibility and functionality, so it can be easily adapted to a wide range of manufacturing quality assurance (QA) processes.

Test SLATE often enables users to significantly reduce testing costs by moving real world testing into the research and development (R&D) lab. Well pumps, oil drilling equipment, and many more environmentally challenged components, systems, and subsystems can be effectively and comprehensively tested in simulation chambers using Test SLATE, providing significant savings in product development time and money. Critical performance products such as safety equipment, medical components, engine and transmission parts, and other manufactured products often require a variety of quality assurance test criteria and sequences to gather stress, performance, reliability, and fit tolerances. As a PC-based, general-purpose test and measurement process management application, Test SLATE is comprehensive, easy-to-use software that requires no special programming skills. Windows®-based GUIs and drag-and-drop functionality make it simple and easy to create even the most complex test sequences to yield accurate, real-time QA data to minimize costly manufacturing downtime.

Motorsport is a demanding offshoot of automotive testing, requiring advanced aerodynamic analysis, extreme engine and transmission performance, precise tolerances, and more rigorous testing.

Today, NASCAR and other open wheel racing organizations, including individual teams, are designing and building their own test facilities to meet the demand for better and more comprehensive testing of race car designs and performance. Test SLATE is ideally suited to provide car designers with crucial aerodynamic, thermodynamic, and safety test data, at a cost five to ten times less than competing software applications. Test SLATE makes it easier to move track testing into the laboratory where it can be used to test race cars under virtually any track and performance condition, saving time and money by eliminating expensive location testing.