Qmax signs pact with Wayne Ker Electronics

Chennai, Aug 19 (UNI) Qmax Test Equipments Private Limited, a market leader in the Asia Pacific region through its innovative and high-tech Electronic Automated Test Equipment (ATE), has signed a joint venture agreement with the US based Wayne Ker Electronics to sell its products in North American Market.

Giving details of the agreement to newspersons here, Mr S R Sabapathi, Managing Director said the agreement would be mutally beneficial as the US company could benefit by marketing our products under the co-branded name "Wayne Ker Qmax" and Qmax by expanding its business.

Thanks to the pact, which would be in force for two years, Qmax products would now be available in the North American market, he said adding no financial transaction was involved in the joint venture for co-branding Qmax products.

Qmax products were successful because of its leading edge technology and its innovative solutions had always kept pace with fast changing electronics and automation field, he said.

Qmax's third generation ATEs have been designed and equipped to perform multiple test techniques to test today's new technology PCBs which have high pin count ICs like FPGAs and BGAs, which could not be normally tested, using conventional ATE systems.

Wayne Kerr Electronics was a leader in Test and Measurement and Functional Test System and a well known name in the US with well established sales and service networks, he said.

As a result of the Joint venture, Amax expected a better and closer pre and post sale services to its customers and poised for a quantum jump in its global market share, thus placing India in the global map of ATE manufacturers, hitherto dominated by large multi national companies, Mr Sabapathy said.

Qmax also signed MOU with giants like Den-on, a Japan based company for soldering, de-soldering and BGA rework, US based Extech for hand held maters and UK based Yes Tech for x-ray inspection systems. It had also made agreement with the German based Comprion, for testing mobile phones, he said.

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