Return on Investment

Typical outside repair costs for electronic circuits are charged at 40% of the cost of a replacement PCB (Printed Circuit Board). Common problems associated with PCB repairs are:

• No Fault Found (NFF) scenarios can be frequent occurrences and charged at similar rates.
• Boards going around the repair loop several times.
• Beyond Economical Repair (BER) returns may not be an option for you and force untimely capital investment.
• Long Turn-Around-Times (TAT) can mean inventory stuck in the repair loop and more spares than necessary.

Repairing boards in-house requires a skilled technician or engineer using traditional bench equipment. This method typically relies heavily on the skills, knowledge and experience of the engineer and whilst the costs are not as ‘public’ as those associated with sending boards out for repair, they are often considerable and stop skilled people being available for other tasks in the organisation.

PinPoint Diagnostic System

• Enables you to  rapidly diagnose the cause of failures on a PCB and therefore provides you with a very cost effective alternative to the methods above
• Empowers you to maintain your electronic systems in-house
• Reverse Engineering facility for schematic diagrams also eliminates major obsolescence issues effectively and substantially extends the operating life of systems.

The initial costs of using a PinPoint system (investment in the equipment and test program) need to be considered and are often perceived to be a block to investment. However, when considered in the overall cost model for performing repairs on PCB’s attractive ROI (Return on Investment) figures can be achieved and the PinPoint can demonstrate large savings.

When comparing the upfront cost of a PinPoint with OEM/3rd Party repair process, a typical repair house can expect to see a ROI in 9 months. When comparing to an in-house repair process, a typical repair house can expect to see a ROI in 15 months.