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Software for Microwave Engineering and Production

Performance Microwave Inc. is the source for software as advanced as your applications and the latest test equipment. Why collect data on paper or within flat files when SQL databases are so powerful and easy to use, use the power of SQL-based data collection and management instead.

Everyone benefits from SQL-based data collection and management:

  • Equipment goes farther – no more limits on instrument states or cal kits. Faster switching from one product to another, fewer calibrations.

  • Common interface – train with one VNA, work on them all.

  • Quality Control has more data to identify trends.

  • Automated testing – quicker delivery – lower costs.

How valuable is your data?

Most of us started measuring data with scaler network analyzers, the oldest among us with phase bridges and standing wave detectors, the youngest amongest us have known only fully-automated VNAs.  Data recording started with engineering notebooks, progressed to plotted results and then to flat files.

Data analysis has consisted mainly of compiling our old data into spreadsheets, manually sorting through hand written notes, extracting information from plots or tedious searchs through (sometimes) years of files and equally tedious compilations into spreadsheets.  Often, that has been sufficient, when things go well, things are good -- that's the way it is, about half the time!

Vendors come and go, specifications change, people change and we then are forced to compile and analyze our data.  New  specs and design require re-programming, this data we collect has become very valuable indeed -- for what it provides and for the equipment, programming and test-taking costs.

Make your data more valuable!

It doesn't take much -- really not a big deal and not much money.  You can use Performance Microwave's Test Management suite with the SQL database you have now or install a free or low-cost server.  You'll have a data set where you can sort on most any parameter or swept data you've ever measured and recorded -- data taking and programming become less obtrusive.  As valuable as your data has been to date, it's  more so when indexed and available through a central SQL server.  Find out more here.