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News Release from: Mecmesin | Subject: MultiTest
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 May 2005
Motorised test stands for compression
and torsion
Mecmesin has announced the launch of "MultiTest", a range of motorised test stands for tension and compression testing.
A particularly cost-effective method for evaluating quality of manufactured products, components or materials is by measuring response of appropriate samples to applied tensile or compressive loads Mecmesin has announced the launch of "MultiTest", a range of motorised test stands for tension and compression testing
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 8 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Challenge Card Design, a leading manufacturer of ID cards is using a MultiTest 1-i computer-controlled product testing system for peel testing its laminated covered identity cards.
A system based upon one of these stands, a force gauge or loadcell, and appropriate fixtures and accessories can be used to measure "pull-off" resistance of crimped electrical connectors, peel strength of induction-sealed foils and adhesive films or labels, characteristic forces and deflections of switches and keypads, top-load strength of bevcans, PET bottles and other containers, insertion and withdrawal forces of connectors, fasteners, blades/needles, or corks, performance of compression springs, tension springs and spring assemblies.
The basic MultiTest range, with a suitable capacity BFG (Basic Force Gauge) or AFG (Advanced Force Gauge) forms the basis of a budget-priced system where a single peak force value needs to be captured.
Such a system would, for example, be ideal for capturing: the failure force of a crimped electrical joint, the force to initiate peeling or tearing of a seal, sliding of a film, or the collapse of a container.
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Quality testing on hydrocolloid products
Salts Healthcare has chosen a Mecmesin MultiTest 1-i computer-controlled test frame system, driven by Emperor software, for conducting quality testing on their hydrocolloid products.
Mecmesin exhibiting a range of testing equipment
Mecmesin will be displaying a range of force and torque measurement equipment, suitable for testing a wide range of packaging products, on stand 3020, Hall 3 at the Total Show
MultiTest systems with a frame capacity of 1000N or 2500N are available.
The MultiTest x range features console-controlled machines, with load, displacement and crosshead speed being displayed.
System features include: dynamic zeroing, running to load, length, time or break, loadholding and averaging.
A facility for creating simple programs, with up to five test routines being stored is also provided.
Such a system is particularly suitable for testing: springs, plastics, rubbers, elastomers.
A MultiTest-x system can be used in environments unsuitable for a PC.
MultiTest-x systems with a load capacity of 1000N, 2500N and 5000N are available.
The MultiTest-i range can be fully-controlled by a PC running Mecmesin's powerful, flexible and user-friendly "Emperor" Windows software.
Quality engineers, manufacturing technologists, plastics scientists and medical device manufacturers/specifiers will find this testing system particularly useful for developing sophisticated test procedures and analyses to suit their particular requirements.
MultiTest-i systems are available with load capacities of 1000N, 2500N and 5000N. Request a free brochure from Mecmesin ...
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