Slot Machine Testers Get New Lab

Travis Foley is the Chief of the State Gaming Control Board’s Technology Division, and he has a job unlike many others – he tests slot machines. His job is to ensure that every slot machine that comes through their doors is completely tested as well as all gaming technology – which includes marketing and accounting systems for slot machines.

Foley and his team have just gotten a bigger and better space to do their slot machine testing, and it is right by the McCarran International Airport. It is three times he size of their old one, and it has plenty of room to do all the slot machine testing that Foley and his team need to do.

The old space left them literally sitting on top of one another, tripping over each other with cords and testing equipment, and now they are organized and everything has its place. With the new space they are able to higher more people to do the slot machine testing, which is terrific for the team, because more people means more turnaround. The process takes months as it is, but with more people it will take less time for each slot machine to start the testing process.

Foley says that they take a few months for testing the slot machines, and about a month for new game titles. He says that the testing for accounting systems is taking much less time, and that their setup time is faster as well. He says that with the power set up the way it is in the new building there won’t be any problems with hooking up slot machines the way there used to be.

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