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News Release from: Indentec Hardness Testing Machines | Subject: Handheld digital hardness testers
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 09 January 2003
Portable approach checks hardness
efficiently
A transmissions manufacturer has adopted a portable approach to ensure that all components rescued from defective gearboxes and drive trains are hardness tested rapidly and economically.
One of our handheld digital testers has done wonders for hardness testing at VOR Transmissions in the UK West Midlands This specialist in re-manufacturing vehicle transmissions has adopted our portable approach to make sure that all components rescued from defective gearboxes and drive trains are tested thoroughly, rapidly and economically
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 10 Jul 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Previously parts had to be taken to an outside test laboratory to check if they had, for example, been softened by overheating.
This was a slow and costly process and it meant that not all potentially useful components, particularly large and heavy ones, were properly checked out.
Money was being lost in unnecessary wastage.
Our pocket sized tester has solved the problem completely.
VOR can now carry out in situ and bench testing of all parts immediately, regardless of component weights, sizes, shapes and akwardness of location.
Equally important, parts that once might have been ignored because they were marginally useful can now be included in the test programme.
VOR says that the instrument's compactness and very easy operation encourage its use by all shop floor staff, leading to more exhaustive searches for viable components.
The instant availability of printed hardnesses is also very helpful in negotiations with customers and suppliers.
If you need an argument to sell our handy handhelds you will not find one much more convincing than this.
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