Rate Testing System Material Fatigue
"Reduce your overall cost and improve your production process with your own Material Fatigue and/or Rate Testing Systems"
- Reduces cycle test-time through intelligent automation
- Improves test accuracy and repeatability
- Scalable to any most testing requirements
- Maximizes personnel resources
- Reduces the reliance and cost of subcontracted testing
- Keeps proprietary property in-house
Fully Automated Test Cycle
- Static & Dynamic Test Cycles
- Reduces Test Cycle Time
- Eliminates Inconsistency of Manual Testing or Subcontractor Issues
- Remote Access Capability and Control Station
- Interfaces with Remote Databases for Test Parameters and Data Logging
These Highly Precise and Complex Systems Usually Consist of:
- Delta Motion Controllers
- DFP Valves
- MTS Temposonic,
- Interface Load Cell
- Touch Screen
- Hydraulic Power Units
- Cylinders
Increased Quality and Productivity
- Reaches Specified Pressure Rapidly and Accurately
- System Over-Pressure Protection Reduces Potential Pump and Valve Failure Repair Time
- Decreased Test Time
- Closed Loop Control Can Overcome Overshooting
- Operator Training/Deployment is Greatly Reduced
For one customer of leaf springs or golf carts, the manufacturing process starts with high-carbon, high-alloy spring steel. The springs are heat treated, formed, quenched, assembled and then painted.
To insure product quality, a number of springs are tested on a fatigue testing system on a daily basis. The system will vary the force in a sinusoidal manner accruing cycle counts as it proceeds.
This customer has since incorporated some automation to improve speed and flexibility along with more diagnostic information. The implementation of a "smarter", more flexible closed-loop controller returned dividends of twice the testing speed, improved testing repeatability and reliability and has also expedited the customers product development process.
