The first sharing platform will appear in the testing market? The Hong Kong startup team ECTest Company Limited has launched ECTest® Node—a test resource sharing platform to match laboratory testing services with related agencies. It aims at becoming Airbnb in the testing industry in the future with its one-stop product testing information platform that has transformed the operation of traditional testing models.

Since many certifications have to be obtained when Taiwan’s electronic products are sold to Europe and the United States, various testing services have arisen in the market over the years. However, being limited by the traditional operating models and the lower informatization level, it is not easy for startup companies to obtain information on testing services in the early stage. Aiming at the market demand for testing services matching, ECTest started its residency in Startup Terrace this year to provide startups with services in relation to testing certification consultation for their export products. ECTest also collaborates with Fintech, blockchain and AI startup teams to optimize its platform functions, and meanwhile they can seize the business opportunity together.

Before exporting products to Europe and the United States, visit the ECTest® Node platform first

ECTest Chief Technology Officer Ben Siu said that the ECTest® Node one-stop platform service provides information on the latest test standards and laboratory tests quotations for exporters to check the certification standards applicable in various countries and related laboratory service quotations before exporting their products. The platform matches the requested testing services with suitable laboratories, and charges the laboratories "Matching Service Fee" under its revenue model.

ECTest® Node has completed the first stage field test in Hong Kong and has attracted several laboratories to join up with the platform services. The first focus of the platform is to connect European countries and the United States, which are the countries with the most certifications for export products, with testing laboratories in Hong Kong and Taiwan. The next stage will aim at applying the platform to integrate all industries related to testing and certification, including suppliers of testing materials and equipment/instruments as well as calibration laboratories and other institutes for all data to be interconnected via the platform.

Ben Siu said that the future goal of the platform is to establish a "New Ecosystem of Testing Industry", in which exporters can check information on different countries’ certification standards, required test items and quotations offered by different laboratories before exporting their products. But there are still two problems to be solved to achieve one-stop testing services: 1. Laboratories must have sufficient informatization systems; 2. The platform must be equipped with capacities to connect with backend cash-flow services and faster AI algorithms to synchronize the global certification information.

Develop ECTest® AutoFlow to Carry Out LIMS4.0

The establishment of ECTest was originally triggered by the industrial and academic backgrounds of its founder Norton Yuen. Norton Yuen has accumulated many years of experiences in this industry and served as a senior lecturer in the Department of Testing and Certification, so he was very familiar with all product testing procedures. He observed that the IT service providers in the market did not have enough knowledge about this industry, which made it very difficult for them to develop appropriate information systems. So he invited the current Chief Technology Officer Ben Siu to jointly develop the testing certification system ECTest® AutoFlow to meet the laboratory requirements, which has been commercialized since last year.

ECTest® AutoFlow is a paperless worksheet and report generation system. It is able to exchange information with the current Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system applied in laboratories so that the testing certification can be automated, the progress can be tracked, and the reports can be automatically generated. In other words, it has brought the concept of Industry 4.0 into the testing certification industry and has transformed the traditional operating models applied in this industry.

Norton Yuen stressed that the concept of Laboratory Information Management System 4.0 (LIMS 4.0) is to automate the testing procedures which were originally limited in one testing department so that the information can be interconnected and exchanged among different departments of the testing certification institute. With laboratory automation and connection to ECTest® Node platform, the one-stop service shall be further accelerated in the future.

Testing Certification Database Sharing Provides One-stop Service

ECTest was originally founded in Hong Kong with registered capital of NT$ 7.2 million. 70% of its business was dedicated to product R&D, and most of the team members possessed laboratory work experiences and programming skills. After residing in Startup Terrace, ECTest will set up a testing certification consultation service platform exclusively designed for resident companies, and provide one-on-one services in relation to certifications for exporting/regulatory requirements to help the companies export their developed products to overseas market.

Ben Siu further emphasized that with the need to connect with cash-flow service systems and introduce AI algorithms for the platform, ECTest is planning to find collaboration partners in Startup Terrace where many companies specialized in AI technologies reside so that the strengths of different companies can be integrated, and the platform functions will be reinforced. The platform shall be able to cooperate with various government agencies/certificate-issuing institutes in the future to establish a shared testing certification database. Such database shall be able to connect to the database of each laboratory to facilitate the automation of testing certification procedures in the whole industry, and to truly realize the concept of "Laboratory for Industry 4.0".

Written/Photographed by: Reporter Ceria Chou and Startup Terrace Editorial team

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