Feb 20, 2023 
Datest announced a representative agreement with Global SMT’s award-winning Rep of the Year for 2022, Don Dennison of PIT Equipment Services, LLC on the east coast. Dennison will represent Datest in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia.
Dennison commented, “I’m very excited to be working with the Datest team as a service provider of support and testing of PCB assemblies. Our clients have been searching for help as a value-added solution for some time. Datest will provide assistance and back-up support with flying probe and bed of nails testing. This certainly will improve quality and production time.”
PIT started in 1988 with a mission to assist electronic assembly companies in the New York / New Jersey / Eastern Pennsylvania metropolitan area. Their extensive product knowledge and strategic customer relationships have made them a key supplier and long-term partner to companies down the east coast. The key to their long-term success is their service and support of each product sold.
Robert Boguski, President of Datest, remarked, “We are very pleased to partner with a representative of the caliber of Don Dennison and PIT. We’ve admired PIT from a distance for some time, and we’re delighted to partner now with Don and his team to serve the markets in his five-state area. We look forward to years of success providing imaging, test engineering, failure analysis, and analytical services in our unique way to customers and clients in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia.”
With more than 39 years of expertise, Datest offers in-circuit testing (ICT), flying probe testing, X-ray inspection, boundary scan/JTAG testing, functional testing, failure analysis and other related analytical and laboratory services, to OEMs and EMS companies throughout the US, North America, and the world. Datest is an ISO9001:2015, ITAR and AS9100D-certified company, and a member of IPC, IEEE, EIPC and ASNT. Datest is a proud and active member of SMTA.
For more information about PIT Equipment Services, visit www.pit-equipmentservices.com.
For more information about Datest or to view the company’s complete service lineup, visit www.datest.com, or call (510) 490-4600.
Datest was founded in 1984 to address the growing trend of outsourcing assembly test services, together with increasing OEM demands that EMS providers deliver fully tested, functioning product. The company integrates traditional electrical board test methodologies (ICT, Flying Probe, and JTAG/Boundary Scan) with failure analysis (nondestructive as well as destructive), reverse engineering and “bonepile” rehabilitation, functional test development, and analytical laboratory services. Datest also offers comprehensive X-ray services (2D, 3D, and CT) for root cause analysis, high-level inspection and metrology, and dispute resolution. Datest is frequently the final say in third-party dispute resolution. The Datest suite of services includes a 225kV microfocus CT system from VJ Technologies, offering CT scanning and failure analysis services for all manner of larger objects besides printed circuit board assemblies. Datest is ITAR registered and has a quality management system (QMS) that is certified to ISO9001:2015 and AS9100D. Datest is a member of SMTA, IPC, IEEE, EIPC and ASNT (American Society for Nondestructive Testing).
For more information, visit www.datest.com.
