Monitoring a product build process via a smart tray

A non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium storing machine readable instructions that when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

• receive environmental data indicative of environmental parameters in a vicinity of a smart tray bearing a unit under test (UUT) thereon;
• receive from the smart tray, network data transmitted to the UUT via a network port in the smart tray, wherein the network data includes firmware or software loaded into the UUT;
• analyze the network data, the analyzing including comparing a checksum of the network data to a trusted checksum, and determining an authentication failure of the network data in response to the checksum not matching the trusted checksum;
• identify an outlier in the environmental data or the network data, wherein the outlier includes the authentication failure if analyzing the network data determines the authentication failure;
• determine an action to be executed at the smart tray in response to the outlier;
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• transmit the action to the smart tray to instruct the smart tray to perform the action affecting a test of the UUT.

An apparatus that monitors a build process, the apparatus comprising:

• a tray configured to bear thereon a unit under test (UUT);
• at least one sensor included in the tray that senses at least one environmental parameter in a vicinity of the tray;
• a first network port included in the tray connectable to a factory network to receive data from the factory network;
• a second network port included in the tray connectable to the UUT to convey the data received by the first network port to the UUT, wherein the data includes firmware or software to be loaded into the UUT;
• a wireless transceiver included in the tray that exchanges data signals between the tray and a remote analytics platform via a wireless access point;
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• a computing system incorporated into the tray, wherein the computing system transmits the at least one environmental parameter and the data to a remote analytics platform via the wireless transceiver and receives instructions from the remote analytics platform to perform an action when the remote analytics platform identifies an outlier in the at least one environmental parameter or the data, wherein the remote analytics platform identifies the outlier in the data by determining that a checksum of the data does not match a trusted checksum.