Manufacturing control station

A workstation for use in the assembly of optical communication component parts, comprising:

• a computer terminal having a display and at least one input device;
• a test apparatus operatively coupled to said computer terminal, said test apparatus being configured to perform a test of an optical or electrical parameter on an assembled optical communication component part, and supply data indicative of a result of said test of said optical or electrical parameter to said computer terminal;
• and
• an assembly application program which generates
• a first display screen for display of a text assembly procedure to be followed by an assembler on said display of said computer terminal;
• a second display screen for display of the test result obtained by said test apparatus on said display of said computer terminal, and
• a third display screen for display of a graphical image of the optical communications component part associated with the displayed text assembly procedure of said first display screen,
• said assembly program concurrently displaying said first and third display screens on said display of said computer terminal.