Flexible Pricing for smarter
Test Data Management

One of the components in the WATS subscription model is the volume of test and repair data that you process. We measure this in the megabyte size of converted test reports uploaded to your WATS account per month. 50 MB and 100 MB are included in the base-level plans per month, and you can increase these sizes through pre-payable add-ons. The average test report in WATS is approximately 50 KB, meaning that 50 MB equals 1000 such reports analyzed each month.

The content of a test report varies greatly from company to company, product to product, and test process to test process. A rough estimation for a test report containing single-numeric measurement test are shown below.

• Numbers are approximate, based on a WATS Analytics 300MB data-plan, annual prepaid

There are two alternatives to get a good understanding on how much data you need.

1. Download this Excel data size calculator and input your production volumes and the content of your different test reports and formats.
   
2. Run a free WATS Trial where you upload your own production data. We can then show the exact size in total and per test report, that you can use to extrapolate out to your total production volume.

With the WATS pricing model, you can very easily assign a data-processing cost component to each product. This makes good sense, since the value added to your company with Manufacturing Intelligence is very related to the fixed and overhead costs of manufacturing that again are spread across the Cost-of-Goods-Sold. A basic estimate can be found by identifying the number of UUT reports that goes into a final product, the total size of these, and the ratio of this compared to your total data consumption and subscription price.

The Account Page section inside of your WATS account will provide you with information on your current and historical consumption of data. You will also receive a notification if the quota is exceeded, so that you can determine if you would like to upgrade to a higher data-plan for the current month, or pay a one-time fee for the current over consumption.

The good option is then to select a pre paid data-plan that is well beyond the size of your generated data from manufacturing. When this is combined with our standard data-rollover feature, the probability that you will encounter variable overage rates are minimal.

A better option is to budget for a plan beyond your requirement, and request an internal Frame Order for this. But then activate the subscription on a lower priced plan. That gives you the flexibility to upgrade as needed without paying any premium.

Our standard pre-paid options exceeds 300 GB of converted test data processed per month, that equals more than 6.5 million test reports per month, at 50 numerical measurements per report. Contact us for a discussion if your requirement goes beyond this.

There are two categories of savings WATS contributes to, variable production costs and different types of overhead costs. The relative sizes of these savings will depend on your production volumes.

The per-unit-saving (price-per-processed-report) view is more appropriate where the volumes are relatively high, as you can evaluate the potential savings per product built vs the subscription price.

When production volumes are low it is likely that savings in overhead costs are more prominent, and you should rather emphasize potential time savings for staff such as Test Engineering and R&D who no longer needs to develop or maintain custom tools, or do data mining.

When you register for a trial, a dedicated WATS account will be created for your selected company name, available at https://”companyname”.wats.com. After the trial is approved, you will receive an email with all the required details to sign in. The trial account comes pre-populated with test data and supporting documentation, to let the user experience easily the solution and capabilities before deciding to upload and analyze their own data. We don’t require any payment or payment details during the trial so that you can try WATS obligation-free.

We don’t require any payment or payment details during the trial so that you can try WATS obligation-free.

Our team will contact you before your trial expires, and can issue a quote for a service subscription. Your trial account will become your permanent account (all of your customization, data, and actions may remain intact). If you decide not to continue with a subscription at the end of your trial period, your account will expire.

If you don’t have an active trial then first, sign up for a free trial first. Then wait for us to contact you, or contact us.

We’ll issue a quote for your initial subscription requirements, and you can manage any changes from that point on from inside your WATS account.

We are continuously adding to our extensive library of online documentation, videos and webinars, both live webinars and recorded webinars.

For the majority of users this is sufficient to become a proficient WATS users. Should you have the need for more detailed or customized training, please contact us.

There is no requirements to buy onboarding services, as WATS is fully an off-the-shelf product. Should you however see a need for assistance with creating data converters, integration to third-party solution or other tailored services we, or our partner network, can help you in this.

We will invoice you according to your order. We offer both quarter and annual billing, payable through bank transfer. Contact us for more details.

The pricing model has built-in quantity discounts as the volume of data processed increases.

The total subscription cost has two main components. You select the desired set of features – WATS Basic, Analytics or Enterprise. The second component is the size of the data that you wish to process beyond what is included in the base plan. These are managed through add-ons.

WATS offers standard product support via email and our user forum, as a part of any subscription. Contact us for questions or needs around tailored support or training services.

The User is an individual that login to the WATS.com service to access reports & analysis, customize the system or create Repair Reports (UUR). WATS supports multiple pre-configured or customizable user-levels, depending on the privileges you wish to grant your users. WATS Client is the software installed on a computer (ATE/Test Station) that transfers data to the WATS.com service. A test operator (executing a test on the Unit via an automated test station) does not require a User account unless using the WATS Manual Inspection interface.

Our product name is WATS and wats.com is our homepage and also the domain name of the service where we offer WATS as a service by a rented cloud solution.

WATS can run On-Premise at your internal servers, or in private clouds hosted by Virinco or you – in numerous different IT set-ups. Please see this article for details.

Yes, we offer email support, community forum and an extensive Help Center.

The WATS Client offers numerous ways to import data into WATS. Either by integrating with marked leading software like LabVIEW, TestStand or .NET, or by reading existing files and databases. For more documentation read this article.

wats.com use Microsoft Azure platform for application hosting. Standard data center is in Western Europe (Amsterdam), but we also offer hosting in any of the world wide Azure sites.