On the European front, we look forward to supporting the GPATE effort this year. There are a number of re-host efforts underway in Europe:

• Replacement of obsolete ATEs’: this program covers Tank testers and involves a lot of legacy TPS, some of which are written in HP BASIC! Our German Distributor, SEKAS GmbH, is heavily involved in this program.
• Tornado mid-life update: this program is alive and kicking and we are delivering a number of PAWS systems for this update.
• Embedded Systems: TYX is providing a Windows NT Embedded based PAWS system in support of this tank application.
• All the EURODASS consortia members have purchased upgrade systems to migrate to the NT platform.
• A number of other companies have indicated that they will be procuring PAWS for their programs this calendar year.

The integration of PAWS + QUOTIS has been achieved utilizing the new Data Logger (described later in this issue); the new Data Logger and the QUOTIS QDA Interface have already been distributed and supplied for application in production and maintenance testing. QUOTIS is a Quality Management System developed by SEKAS GmbH, Germany and it is available from TYX and their distributors. Here are some of its outstanding features:

• Capture, management and analysis of test and repair data at each stage of the manufacturing and maintenance process;
• integration of paperless repair and capture of quality data;
• online analysis for the test and repair processes;
• one-to-one acceptance of quality data from automatic test systems;
• statistical error analysis based on reports.

The CARS ATE ( Computer Aided Repair System) based on PAWS and QUOTIS has been finalized (see photograph) and was officially inaugurated by the Belgian Army in February.

All in all, a busy year so far on the European front!

On the Far Eastern front, we continue to deliver additional PAWS licenses to the F-2 program, and there are a number of other initiatives under way. We can state that a major new program has selected PAWS and we expect to make deliveries in the Second Quarter. We cannot say much more, as we are sworn to secrecy on a number of these programs. The NEC TOW Missile re-host was completed at the end of last year, and the interesting highlight is that about 50% of the TPS show a reduction in run time of 50%! This project replaced an obsolete proprietary tester with a HP COTS tester including new ITAs’.

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