Applications: Manufacturing

Designed for faster more flexible testing
The dScope Series III is among the fastest and most powerful audio test solutions available for production line / QC testing applications. With the capacity to measure over 100 audio parameters simultaneously, and with advanced FFT-based analysis tools including multi-tone testing and impulse response analysis, dScope Series III helps you increase your throughput and ensure that you are shipping fault-free product.


Screenshot of a dScope Series III multi-tone test for an MP3 player

Event manager
In addition, dScope Series III incorporates a unique set of features in audio test: dScope's 'Event Manager' application is capable of analyzing soak test measurements continuously, over indefinite time periods, checking for intermittent faults that could be missed by periodic or end-of-soak inspection. Any limit breaches are recorded to a log file complete with details of the time and date of the failure, the nature of the fault and the numerical values of the measurement results. On detection of any intermittent faults, the system can take arbitrary sequences of action, which could include sending an email to the Production Manager or running an automatic sequence of diagnostic tests and creating a detailed test report, for example.


dScope Series III screenshot showing the Event Manager logging
intermittent failures on multiple parameters simultaneously

Flexible automation
The dScope Series III system offers a range of automation options, allowing you to seamlessly integrate the system into your production facility no matter how large or small:

• The software can be used manually, with one-button switching between different test files and on-screen flagging of limit breaches
• Self-contained automation applications can be written in VBScript, a powerful scripting language that allows the user to create automated test sequences, limit checking, pass / fail reporting, integration with databases or spreadsheets for storing results, and custom user interfaces / dialogues to be created to control the flow of testing or to customise the level of information shown to the test operator.
• For integration within larger-scale automation environments, dScope includes an ActiveX / COM interface that enables the system to be controlled by external applications (and vice-versa), allowing automation executives such as LabVIEW, TestStand, Delphi, Python, C#, etc to run test sequences and check results.
• dScope's automation tools also enable integration of other applications and control / measurement systems, including barcode scanners, external instruments for non-audio measurements, PLCs, production-line hardware etc.

Applications engineering solutions
Automation solutions can be delivered by Prism Sound as part of a turn-key package, custom made for your specific needs and ready to operate out-of-the-box. Our experienced team of expert Applications Engineers has a long history of delivering automated solutions to many of the world's leading audio brands, some of whom are listed in our client references. No matter how big or small your manufacturing operation, dScope allows you to measure faster and saves you money.