PathWave Test 2020 addresses two important challenges currently facing electronics industry OEMs: 1) keeping pace with the rapid rate of change and innovation in the industry; 2) extracting greater value from data, workflows, and processes that comprise the engineering environment.

The first represents an opportunity to radically shift mindset and engineering approach to achieve digital transformation of complex R&D and test tasks. Customers can integrate their own tools and environments with Keysight's open PathWave platform ecosystem. Open interoperability reduces the time required to develop test solutions and mitigates the support burden to maintain proprietary software and processes.

The second challenge represents an opportunity to raise the level of insight in the engineering enterprise to rapidly scale interdependent processes for much higher operational efficiency and competitive advantage. Customers adopting a platform-based test approach with PathWave Test 2020 can streamline product development processes within both their enterprise test workflows and their individual work tasks. The software supports more efficient test processes especially for those that require shared data and analysis for making faster, more informed decisions. Deeper insights and more informed decisions lead to better utilization of people, processes, and technologies that contribute to digital transformation of the engineering enterprise.

The key to solving these problems is in the adoption of a platform-based design and test approach that dramatically improves handling of valuable engineering data. The PathWave platform is an abstraction layer enabling data processing, sharing, and analysis at the highest levels to generate valuable operational insights from complex design and test workflows. PathWave consists of applications, software tools, hardware instruments, work tasks, and workflows. Individual tools and instruments contribute to improved efficiency in work tasks. Tool suites integrate the data into functional workflows. PathWave performs management oversight across work tasks and multiple workflows to orchestrate an agile and connected design and test process.

Electronic design and test platforms are like a symphony maestro conducting musicians to perform classical music. PathWave orchestrates interoperability and shorts product development cycles. PathWave raises the design and test abstraction level from task or function to an integrated workflow solution. The platform produces results that are not possible in its absence – greater automation and engineering productivity, faster time-to-market, and reduced manufacturing risk.

At the core of the PathWave platform is mission critical operational technology that provides the tools, solution workflows, and infrastructure. The framework enables high-level insights that fuel significant improvements in engineering and business operations. Large-scale enterprises are demanding these insights to meet today's design, test and measurement complexity challenges. The PathWave platform delivers not only the necessary foundational technologies of a platform-based test architecture, but also the tool workflow integration and process management capabilities to unlock the greatest value from shared engineering data. The benefits of adopting the PathWave platform-based methodology are improved product development cycles and more rapid innovation in support of digital transformation.