Legacy & End-of-Life Operating Systems
Production benches running OS versions IT will not patch. Every day is an unpatched vulnerability and a certification liability.
Good Automation modernizes test infrastructure, V&V documentation, and embedded controls for teams who build things that cannot fail. Before downtime, audit exposure, or lost tribal knowledge stalls the program.
Operational Risk Assessment
Aging platforms, missing documentation, and engineers walking out the door are not future problems. Each one compounds every quarter the program runs, until something breaks on the wrong day.
Production benches running OS versions IT will not patch. Every day is an unpatched vulnerability and a certification liability.
Driver support ended three OS versions ago. Replacement cards no longer made. The bench that powers the line has no migration path on file.
The engineer who built the system has moved on. Their replacements are debugging undocumented code written by people who are no longer around to explain it.
Three or five bespoke setups doing variations of the same job. Different results. Different maintenance. Zero reuse across product lines.
V&V gaps that surface only when the auditor arrives. Requirement-to-test traceability living in spreadsheets nobody has opened in months.
Qualification campaigns slip. Requalification events stretch from weeks to months. Fielded programs block on test capacity, and every release date moves to the right.
Recurring patterns observed across 100+ delivered programs.
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Service Pillars
Each pillar addresses a specific operational liability. Together they modernize the entire test, validation, and automation stack, without restarting what already works.
End obsolescence risk. Preserve what works. Build what scales.
What We Do
Outcomes
Audit-grade documentation, part of every deliverable, not bolted on after.
What We Do
Outcomes
From a tech with a DMM, dial, and lab notebook, to deterministic, user-invariant production test sets that reliably run.
What We Do
Outcomes
Proof of Delivery
Real programs, risk removed. Each story is a challenge that could not wait, and a solution built to outlast the engagement.
Five aging avionics test sets, each a distinct design with unobtainable parts. Requalification alone consumed three engineer-months per qualification event.
Designed a single 3-bay test set with high-density interconnect and ITA to replicate and modernize the test coverage of the previous five disparate test sets, as a reference pattern for future subsystems.
Customer team owns and sustains the platform. The same architecture was reused for the landing-gear V&V program; no restart required.
No foundational test infrastructure for production characterization of MMIC and RFIC devices destined for military programs. Everything had to be built from scratch and progressively expanded.
A LabVIEW core test architecture extended over years with S-parameter characterization, gain compression, pulsed signal measurement, performance binning algorithms, and a test data storage and retrieval database.
One test set serving both engineering characterization and production test, with new measurement modules layered in over years without rework.
A Class III active implantable medical device (AIMD) needed design verification for MRI safety, RF-induced heating, EMI, and susceptibility to radiated emissions.
A series of test sets that automated the design verification protocols, paired with test method validation and 21 CFR 820.70(i) non-product software validation.
A multi-year engagement produced a collection of automated test sets that fully qualified MRI compatibility for the AIMD, refreshed for higher throughput in later generations.
Surface defects and occlusions in transparent contact lens molds defeated conventional machine vision. Standard imaging could not reliably distinguish defects from normal material properties.
A novel optical inspection system using angle-of-attack illumination, refraction analysis, and light-scatter techniques. Built into a production-ready enclosure with emissions compliance.
Multiple generations of architecture refinement. Production-ready enclosure, operator training delivered on-site, and full FDA-grade V&V.
A large North American oilfield servicer needed to sustain and modernize the embedded controls in their electric-frac (E-Frac) fleet. The embedded system is responsible for the full safety-critical state machine of the rig during pumping operations.
We took over maintenance and upgrade responsibility for the system. Including: deterministic timing, structured fault state machines, and sensor fusion across pressure, flow, temperature, and vibration, with clean APIs upstream to fleet command-and-control and downstream to peer subsystems.
A multi-year sustainment engagement. Coordinated, fault-aware operation across the fleet. Releases that hold up against peer subsystems with looser release practices.
A global RF semiconductor manufacturer needed BAW (Bulk Acoustic Wave) filter wafer probe test software fast enough to run inside the prober's indexing time window, plus a deployment pipeline and RF data tooling that would outlast any single project.
Built the core BAW filter probe test software with 70 ms of acquisition and 80 ms of post-processing parallelized into a 150 ms cycle that fits inside prober indexing. Modernized the CI/CD pipeline for test-software build and deployment.
Test cycles paced by prober motion, not by software. A multi-year engagement spanning probe software and CI/CD modernization, all on the same platform.
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Engineering Outcomes
Concrete engineering deliverables: the kind that show up in requalification events, audit packages, gate reviews, and the quality team's queue. Built into the system so they are still there a year after we leave.
Eliminate manual intervention. Arbitrary wait statements become smart queries on the real ready signal, sequences get optimized, and wasted cycles get cut. The sweep that used to be an engineer-month runs overnight, the same way every time.
Slow is smooth; smooth is fast. ConOps and system requirements written down. Failure modes thought through up front. The end in mind from day one. The deliverable works the first time, every time.
Risk → requirements → verification coverage → documentation, delivered through a trace matrix with protocols and change history that hold up in real FDA and defense reviews, not just on paper.
Editable copies of every design file: source code, schematics, solid models, Word docs. Everything you need to sustain, troubleshoot, and upgrade the system, delivered before close-out and yours to keep long after we are gone.
Fault tolerant. Failover and resiliency designed in, not bolted on. The test set stays up and on across all three shifts. And it runs the same way every time.
Stable interfaces, common fixtures, shared HAL. New product variants ship by extending the platform, not by spinning up another bespoke bench.
In Their Words
Industry Expertise
Mission-critical. Safety-critical: military, aerospace, medical device, heavy manufacturing, semiconductor production, energy exploration. U.S.-headquartered companies trust Good Automation when the stakes are high. We deliver into the harshest environments, where resilience, redundancy, repeatability, uptime, and dependency matter.
Qualification failure risk from undocumented legacy ATE; program delay from V&V gaps.
FDA warning-letter remediation and IEC 62304 development and V&V.
Control-system failure risk in high-consequence harsh environments.
Modernize, optimize, and harden the test floor.
Latent false positives and inspection drift in regulated manufacturing.
Production line failure from unvalidated automation and aging PLCs.
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In one short technical review with a senior engineer, identify the one or two biggest automation, validation, or legacy-system risks slowing your program. Walk away with a clear picture of what to fix and in what order.
Your highest-risk system today, and why it matters now.
Where your V&V documentation exposes you in an audit.
The two or three highest-ROI steps to reduce operational risk first.