- Production test processes are developed to address production defects and are not necessarily capable of finding field failure issues. So most will require some rework to address the differing fault spectrum.
- Expectations that platforms and fixtures transferred from production sites will be of sufficient working quality to be readily usable is not always the case.
- Assumptions that the transferred platform is still supported from the original vendor. Since the decline of the capital equipment market after 2000, many of the older platforms are now no longer supported.
- Trust that the skills exist within the repair centre to support a diverse range of platforms and test development environments. Older test platforms used UNIX and other compiled test languages, which may not only require unique development environments but also programming skills that are increasingly rare.
- The fragility of the existing test platform (age, spares, support etc.)
- The cost of supporting the existing test platform
- The future demand by product type
- The quality of the existing test application (Can improvements be made during the transfer?)
- The ease of transfer
- Available engineering resources
