Looking for EDI information

[Phillip Brooks]

Has anyone ever had to receive calibration / parametric data from a vendor using EDI?

I personally will get the data from our internal systems but it seems that no one I've spoken to inside my company has ever had to receive serial number specific calibration data before.

Right now, we get PDFs with data that we have to transcribe manually into our tests.

I want to point the business / IT folks to some sort of specification but have no experience with EDI.  Some spelunking returned "EDI Specification 863" which might be right by the description...

 

[Phillip Brooks]

Bump - This was dropped by others and now I'm being asked again for input.

Anyone out there receiving discreet S/N specific measurement data from suppliers that needs to be transcribed into cal tables inside your product?

 

[Gribo]

It is useful only if you use the same calibration agency every time. Otherwise, there is no guarantee that they follow the spec. Most of them won't even know about it - EE, Techs and QA persons, not SW.

[Phillip Brooks]

So this wasn't a question about cal standards, it has to do with receiving product from a supplier with per-DUT measurement values made by them that are serial number specific. The measurement values need to be transcribed into registers in our electronics. Right now they provide a toe-tag with multiple 2D barcodes that are scanned at test time. I want to find a standardized way to receive these values from the supplier. One way is to use EDI - https://www.cleo.com/edi-transactions/edi-863

EDI is all business related coding - I would use look up the data at test time instead of scanning tags. The tags get damaged or are lost and we also need it for repair.

I've never come across anyone using this technique. If anyone has a proven method that doesn't involve CSV files and TFTP/Google/Box/Dropbox i'm all ears.

Edited December 10, 2024 by Phillip Brooks