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	"Independent Test Labs and Manufacturers' internal labs benefit from QATrax automating standard processes, leading to measurable improvements in test lab performance." How? Eliminate activities that do not add value! "Visibility – communication on demand – is key to efficient product development and a significant benefit of QATrax!” TraxStar Technologies 201 N. Civic Drive Suite 260 Walnut Creek, CA 94596		June 2007   IEEE EMC 2007 Visit Booth 732-734 at IEEE's EMC 2007 Symposium where TraxStar consultants will share industry insight and practical solutions in an informal setting. TraxStar consultants will be available to discuss your lab management issues and practical solutions. TraxStar's QATrax with Auto-Scheduling for Test Lab Management, a fully integrated test laboratory scheduling and workflow solution designed for global discrete manufacturers, will be exhibited at this symposium. The Symposium is being held at the Honolulu Convention Center July 10-12, 2007. The vendor area is open Tuesday and Wednesday from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm and Thursday from 8:30 am to 1:00 pm.   Dynamic Scheduling in     Active Environments QATrax 4.1 version 160 is shipping in July! This product enhancement extends the autoscheduler, making test technicians available when assigned to unattended tests. Significant enhancements to the Management Reports module provide Users with a flexible tool to access information. Users can selectively grab information and export to Excel. QATrax is evolving to easily handle Dynamic Scheduling in Active Environments. Auto-Scheduling provides a significant edge in the dynamic and complex product development world. QATrax will help minimize the disruptions and time spent in accommodating schedule changes and the downstream “ripples” they cause. Your goal is to manage the entire process. Our goal is to simplify the task. We have many informative articles available on our website: www.traxstar.com.		Volume 4, Number 2   2007 Metrics Survey The Test Lab Management Survey for 2007 is now available. The goal of the Metrics Survey is to foster a collaborative forum among colleagues in the Test Lab world. With more and more managers and customers asking for objective measurements, having ready access to meaningful lab metrics is at the top of many “to do” lists. TraxStar focuses on assisting labs to manage their operations as a business. Incorporating metrics into the management reports is an important aspect of that effort. Would you find benefit in consolidated metrics for industry participants? If so, let us know if you would be willing to participate in a service providing metrics. Please join us in gathering Metrics That Matter!   Software As A Service QATrax is designed to support the test lab management community with either On-Demand or On-Premise service. The benefits from a community of connected parties include industry benchmarking, business partner discovery (e.g., matching appropriate Independent Test Labs and In-House Labs), best practice sharing, shared data content (e.g., descriptions of test methods, equipment capabilities and reporting templates), and group buying power (e.g., test lab management, scheduling and metric software and services). Current customers house the QATrax servers and databases in varying business models. Some host QATrax in their internal IT environment. Others deploy them at external data centers. In either case, the same software provides quick response and real-time access to a single database across the Internet. QATrax is evolving to a live environment for the test lab community. In this environment, events occurring in your lab, in other parts of your company and across the test lab community will drive the decision making in your lab. When something happens that you should be aware of, you will be. Stay tuned for further developments!
	Phone: 800.943-7759 Fax: 925.933-6045 E-mail: info@traxstar.com Visit us at: http://www.traxstar.com		About TraxStar Technologies TraxStar Technologies, LLC ("TraxStar") provides customized workflow solutions. QATrax is the only lab management solution specifically addressing test lab management, visibility and scheduling. TraxStar, QATrax, StaffTrax, TempTrax and QCPro, are registered trademarks of TraxStar Technologies, LLC. All other company/product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Click here to be removed from our mailing list