Legacy test systems, validation gaps, and automation bottlenecks become expensive fast.

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.

FDA 21 CFR 820.70(i) IEC 62304 DO-178C Defense Qualification
100+ Projects Delivered
30+ Enterprise Clients
10+ Years Delivering
150+ Tool Deployments

Operational Risk Assessment

The Hidden Cost of Waiting

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.

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.

Discontinued Test Hardware

Driver support ended three OS versions ago. Replacement cards no longer made. The bench that powers the line has no migration path on file.

Tribal Knowledge Walking Out

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.

Duplicate Test Benches

Three or five bespoke setups doing variations of the same job. Different results. Different maintenance. Zero reuse across product lines.

Failing Traceability

V&V gaps that surface only when the auditor arrives. Requirement-to-test traceability living in spreadsheets nobody has opened in months.

Schedule Risk to Safety-Critical Programs

Qualification campaigns slip. Requalification events stretch from weeks to months. Fielded programs block on test capacity, and every release date moves to the right.

Modernization Impact

Recurring patterns observed across 100+ delivered programs.

Months → Days
Requalification cycle time
Audit Exposure Closed
V&V documentation gaps
Key-Person Risk
Engineering single points of failure
Production Throughput
Output sustained as volume grows
Reuse Across Programs
Architecture amortized over multiple product lines
Audit-Ready Confidence
Validation that survives real reviews
Identify Your Top 2 Risks: Free 20‑Minute Review

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Service Pillars

Three Ways We Remove Risk

Each pillar addresses a specific operational liability. Together they modernize the entire test, validation, and automation stack, without restarting what already works.

Pillar 01

Legacy Test System Modernization

End obsolescence risk. Preserve what works. Build what scales.

What We Do

  • Reverse-engineer undocumented test code written years ago
  • Migrate from end-of-life operating systems to current platforms
  • Consolidate 3–5 aging benches into one reusable architecture
  • Capture tribal knowledge into requirements, procedures, and training
  • Standardize interconnects, fixtures, and signal chains

Outcomes

  • Requalification events reduced from engineer-months to a week
  • Platform consolidation: multiple legacy systems into one
  • Institutional knowledge incorporated into detailed design documentation (editable electronic versions) and training, so that after we leave you can maintain the deliverables
Risk Removed: Eliminated single-vendor and single-engineer failure points.
Speed Gained: New product variants extend existing architecture; no restart.
Pillar 02

Comprehensive V&V Documentation

Audit-grade documentation, part of every deliverable, not bolted on after.

What We Do

  • FDA 21 CFR 820.70(i) and Part 11 validation for non-product software
  • IEC 62304 validation for IVD, SaMD, and medical embedded software
  • Defense software qualification and traceability documentation
  • IQ, OQ, PQ, PPQ, and master-validation packages, with requalification events scoped up front
  • Built for the incidents you've lived through: med-device warning letters; defense production ramps; obsolescence-driven board spins

Outcomes

  • Device and non-device software validation that holds: IEC 62304 on devices, 820.70(i) / 820.72(a) / Part 11 on the software that builds them
  • Legacy systems brought back into compliance without a rewrite. Reverse-engineered HMI and firmware on a Class III implant life-cycle tester operating under an FDA warning letter, then produced the traceability and 820.70(i) packages that closed the gap
  • Quality, design assurance, and software-quality reviews sail through, because the package is set up the way they need it before they ask
Risk Removed: Closes undocumented validation gaps before regulators find them.
Speed Gained: Validation runs parallel with development, not after it.
Pillar 03

Scalable Production
Test Sets

From a tech with a DMM, dial, and lab notebook, to deterministic, user-invariant production test sets that reliably run.

What We Do

  • Database-controlled versioning, staged rollout, and one-click rollback
  • Parallelized test execution and multi-DUT fixture systems
  • CI/CD pipelines for test software and instrument firmware
  • Embedded controls for harsh industrial and field environments
  • Deliverables into mission-critical, safety-critical systems where resilience matters

Outcomes

  • One bench architecture extended to a 150-tool production fleet without rewrite
  • Deterministic test sets that run the same on every shift, every site, every operator
  • Sustainment and refresh delivered in place, with the existing fleet online
Risk Removed: No more manual deployments or version drift across sites.
Speed Gained: New instruments come online in hours, not weeks.

Proof of Delivery

Modernization Wins

Real programs, risk removed. Each story is a challenge that could not wait, and a solution built to outlast the engagement.

Legacy Modernization Aerospace
5 test sets → 1 platform
End-of-life avionics, retired and replaced
Challenge

Five aging avionics test sets, each a distinct design with unobtainable parts. Requalification alone consumed three engineer-months per qualification event.

Solution

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.

Outcome

Customer team owns and sustains the platform. The same architecture was reused for the landing-gear V&V program; no restart required.

Test Architecture Defense / Semiconductor
Greenfield to production
Military MMIC and RFIC test core
Challenge

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.

Solution

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.

Outcome

One test set serving both engineering characterization and production test, with new measurement modules layered in over years without rework.

FDA V&V Medical Devices
MRI compatibility, end to end
RF heating, EMI, inductive charging
Challenge

A Class III active implantable medical device (AIMD) needed design verification for MRI safety, RF-induced heating, EMI, and susceptibility to radiated emissions.

Solution

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.

Outcome

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.

Machine Vision Medical Devices
Inspecting the transparent
Where standard machine vision fails
Challenge

Surface defects and occlusions in transparent contact lens molds defeated conventional machine vision. Standard imaging could not reliably distinguish defects from normal material properties.

Solution

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.

Outcome

Multiple generations of architecture refinement. Production-ready enclosure, operator training delivered on-site, and full FDA-grade V&V.

Embedded Controls Oil & Gas
Embedded controls for E-Frac fleet
Real-time, safety-critical, in harsh environments
Challenge

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.

Solution

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.

Outcome

A multi-year sustainment engagement. Coordinated, fault-aware operation across the fleet. Releases that hold up against peer subsystems with looser release practices.

Probe Throughput Semiconductor / RF
Test software at prober speed
Redesigned software now faster than prober motion
Challenge

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.

Solution

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.

Outcome

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

What Your Day-to-Day Looks Like After We Ship

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.

−70%
Requalification cycle time

Faster, Repeatable

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.

Right the first time

Engineering That Holds Up

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.

100%
Audit pass rate

Documentation Auditors Accept

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.

0
Sustainment risk

You Own Everything

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.

24/7
Uptime

High Availability

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.

5→1
Systems consolidated

Reuse Across the Product Line

Stable interfaces, common fixtures, shared HAL. New product variants ship by extending the platform, not by spinning up another bespoke bench.

In Their Words

From the Engineers and Managers We’ve Shipped For

★★★★★

“Rockstar tool validation experts.”

Tim Powell
Principal Automation Engineer
★★★★★

“Skilled experts, strong leadership & great service.”

Don Williams
Sales & Marketing
★★★★★

“Worked with this team a few times. Always professional quality software delivery and great communication.”

Matt Holt
Test Engineering
★★★★★

“Great team at Good Automation, can always trust that they will get the job done no matter the industry or complexity.”

Kyle Smith
Regional Account Manager
★★★★★

“Great folks with strong core values, excellent leadership, and solid engineers. It’s always a pleasure working with them.”

Bryan Kahlig
Engineering Leadership
★★★★★

“Very impressed with the product that was delivered to us. It was obvious they take great pride in their work. They’re an easy recommendation for anyone in need of some LabVIEW expertise.”

Orlando Garcia
LabVIEW Engineering
★★★★★

“GA is a great resource for LabVIEW development. Among all the integration companies that responded to our RFQ, GA came back with the best price, most comprehensive and substantive quote, and ultimately an on-time above-par deliverable; its framework and technical rigor is praised by other integration companies working on this platform today.”

Iggy Calalang
Test Systems, Medical Device Manufacturer
★★★★★

“Albert was right on his game and immediately understood where we were and helped us get to where we needed to be. He was able to understand our systems and procedures right from the software running on the floor to our procedures and practices to deploy those systems, and shaped the architecture of the test system software in use today at Cochlear. These guys are experts in Test Systems, V&V processes and procedures.”

Kurt Friday
Test Systems, Cochlear / Medulla
★★★★★

“Ab helped me on a project where we needed to validate a system for a medical device company. He hits the ground running ahead of you because of his deep knowledge of the medical device world. The medical device world requires not just really good engineering but also really good documentation systems around it, and Good Automation is good at both.”

Sudhir Gopinath
Medical Device Consulting
★★★★★

“This is a great team. They really dig into your problem, understand what is needed and then execute the plan to perfection. I love working with their team and respect the integrity, work ethic and focus on quality they bring to every project. Hands down the best LabVIEW and test automation group I have ever worked with.”

Jess Ford
Manager, Sustaining Engineering
★★★★★

“Good Automation has helped us with several projects and has done a great job. They were able to work remotely to modify and write new LabVIEW software for our medical device and complete all the validation tasks as well. We could not find a better partner to help us.”

Jacob Spector
Medical Device Engineering
★★★★★

“Bell had a legacy system that was near the end of its lifecycle and replacement parts were not readily available. Good Automation designed a complex, high channel-count, simulation and measurement solution that was compatible with existing components, reducing our costs and saving us space.”

Jose Oaxaca
Test Engineering, Bell
★★★★★

“Good Automation architected our software for a brand new product. They worked with our software and hardware teams to integrate multiple systems and software languages. We are very pleased with the work Good Automation has done.”

Ricardo Viloria
Software Architecture
★★★★★

“Applied Avionics have been quite satisfied with Good Automation’s responsiveness and technical knowledge. They have provided both turn-key solutions and programming only. In both cases, they did an excellent job. Their LabVIEW software expertise is formidable.”

Ruben Vasquez
Applied Avionics

Industry Expertise

Built for Industries Where Failure is Not an Option

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.

Aerospace & Defense

Qualification failure risk from undocumented legacy ATE; program delay from V&V gaps.

  • 15+ avionics projects over a decade
  • Rotorcraft ATE consolidation programs
  • Smart-grenade hardware-in-the-loop systems
  • Satellite-comm OS migration and qualification
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Medical Devices

FDA warning-letter remediation and IEC 62304 development and V&V.

  • ATE for Class II / III medical devices
  • V&V and production test sets for LVAD, cochlear implants, and surgical staplers
  • Design, development, and V&V of in vitro diagnostics (IVDs)
  • MRI compatibility RF test sets
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Oil & Gas

Control-system failure risk in high-consequence harsh environments.

  • Electric-frac (EFRAC) pump embedded controls
  • Pulse-neutron bunker V&V
  • Manifold automation systems
  • Fortune 500 oilfield-services delivery
  • Neural networks modeling oilfield permeability
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Semiconductor & RF

Modernize, optimize, and harden the test floor.

  • 200+ prober fleet
  • MMIC / RFIC test for defense fabs
  • S-parameter, gain compression, pulsed measurement
  • Device binning at production scale
  • Built for the night shift: robust to least-attentive operators
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Machine Vision

Latent false positives and inspection drift in regulated manufacturing.

  • Contact lens mold inspection for translucent defects
  • Orthopedic implant CAPA-driven inspection
  • Measurement System Analysis & uncertainty budgets
  • FDA 21 CFR 820.70(i) V&V for vision systems
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Industrial Manufacturing

Production line failure from unvalidated automation and aging PLCs.

  • HVAC performance monitoring systems
  • Tire-testing automation rigs
  • Fab fire-suppression cabinet test sets
  • Emergency production-line recovery
Explore Industrial Manufacturing →

Trusted by

Medtronic GD Energy Products Bell Helicopter Johnson & Johnson GE Healthcare Halliburton Shell Stryker Alcon Abbott Qorvo Qualcomm Keysight Technologies National Instruments MIT Oak Ridge National Lab Ethicon Bridgestone IBM U.S. Department of Energy Georgia Tech Stanford University University of Texas at Austin Verb Surgical Berkeley Lab Pacific Northwest Lab Hewlett Packard Enterprise Gardner Denver Lockheed Martin

No Obligation

Before your legacy systems become your next program delay.

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.

01

Legacy System Audit

Your highest-risk system today, and why it matters now.

02

Validation Gap Assessment

Where your V&V documentation exposes you in an audit.

03

Modernization Path

The two or three highest-ROI steps to reduce operational risk first.

20 minutes. No fluff. We send senior engineers, not sales guys. Designed for mission-critical teams.