Calibration and Testing Services Reference Materials

Description: The IEC 60601-1 is the International Electrotechnical Commission's (IEC's) general standard for medical electrical equipment. Due to advancing technology, and a constant stream of new medical products ...

Description: Dual phase analysis supports the feasible of relatively low frequency eddy current testing ...

Description: What is Acceptable Quality Limit or AQL? ...

Description: Unwanted leaks in any system can easily damage expensive equipment and machinery reducing the effectiveness of the process. The primary reasons for helium leak testing are quality, reliability, ...

Description: Learn how you can leverage research and development, benchmarking, comparative product testing, pre-shipment inspections, post-purchase surveillance, and extensive product performance evaluation ...

Description: From computer keyboards to household appliances, plumbing pipes to industrial batteries, regulated chemicals are present in products used across every industry. Regulations vary by market, but both ...

Description: Preservation experts specified treatments for future protection against water and insect damage ...

Description: In this post, we highlight two customers with two very different test requirements, resulting in the same outcome - accurate and fast results. ...

Description: In response to customer inquiries regarding surface energy, the Materials and Process Specialists at BTG Labs launched a research project to determine whether contact angle measurements obtained by ...

Description: Poor understanding has hindered cobot adoption ...

Description: Veo Robotics' FreeMove system receives ISO 13849 safety certification from TÜV Rheinland. ...

Description: A primer on collaborative robots, how to conduct safety assessments, and how to design safe implementations for robot/human coworking spaces. ...

Description: The use of contact angles to measure surface quality has been widely adopted throughout many industries and applications. Your organization, too, has recognized that contact angle measurements provide ...

Description: Every test has an informational goal and data is needed as an outcome for any number of reasons: conformity, R&D purposes, regulatory requirements, benchmarking, or general knowledge. It is always ...

Description: Protecting the health, morale and wellbeing of seafarers and the shipping community ...

Description: Opacity monitors are used to measure emissions of smoke and dust from combustion sources. They are mounted directly onto the stack or duct, so a constant flow of purge air is needed to protect their ...

Description: ATS RheoSystems offers reconditioned STRESSTECH and NOVA rheometers for 40-60% of the cost of new research grade rheometers. After extensive reconditioning and calibration, these top-of-the-line ...

Description: FULLY AUTOMATED ASTM D2983 CONDITIONING AND TESTING ON THE CANNON® TESC SYSTEM WHITE PAPER ...

Description: Fully automated ASTM D5133 conditioning and testing on the compact, economical CANNON® TESC-5133 ...

Description: Standard test method for hydrophobic contamination on glass by contact angle measurement ...

Description: Explore our tried, tested, and true measuring techniques and discover the ones which are best suited to your applications ...

Description: The work of adhesion W12 is the work which must be done to separate two adjacent phases 1 and 2 of a liquid-liquid or liquid-solid phase boundary from one another. Conversely, it is the energy which ...

Description: This white paper provides information, insights, and a collection of frequently asked questions about product testing and certification - and provides some useful hints on how to optimize the process ...

Description: As a product manufacturer, you already know that North America is one of the largest consumers in the world. This region serves as an enormous purchasing power that offers attractive opportunities to ...

Description: As EN 60601-1-2 is a collateral standard to the International Medical Safety Standard IEC/EN 60601-1, it has been adopted by many nations. As such, non-compliance removes the ability to place ME ...

Description: Predicting production outcomes in manufacturing relies on accurate data that calculates the variables that actually matter to things like reliability, performance and longevity of the product. There ...

Description: Viscosity profiles of crude oil/catalyst slurries generated under pressure at different temperatures simulate plant conditions. They are therefore useful in the determination of process parameters ...

Description: The viscosity of a fluid is a measure of its resistance to gradual deformation by shear stress or tensile stress. It is a measure of the resistance of flow due to internal friction when one layer of ...

Description: A viscosity profile is constructed by measuring viscosity under various conditions (e.g. variable temperature, shear rate etc.) that mimic process conditions. It is therefore useful in the ...

Description: A viscosity profile is constructed by measuring viscosity under various conditions (e.g. variable temperature, shear rate etc.) that mimic process conditions. It is therefore useful in the ...

Description: Viscosity profiles are used to determine the effects of shear rate (deformation rate) on the structure of a material. Shear rate effects are manifested as an increase or decline in viscosity in ...

Description: Generally speaking, reliability is assessed by evaluating how a product must perform to satisfy the needs of the users over the lifetime of its use. A reliability target is set by calculating the ...

Description: An ACME thread has a screw thread profile with trapezoidal outlines and they are commonly used where large loads or high accuracy are required; for example, in a vice or lead screw. ...

Description: The most common pipe thread is tapered. Tapered pipe thread standards are covered by American National Standard Institute/American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ANSI/ASME) and applicable American ...

Description: Calibrating external thread pitch diameter with three thread wires is a well-proven method and the most common one in use. Although any size wire between the minimum wire size and the maximum wire ...

Description: ENGINEERS TASKED WITH MANAGING fluid flow talk about both holes and calibrated orifices, but they are two distinct entities. A hole can be any opening, but a calibrated orifice is specially designed ...

Description: As the automotive industry develops hardware and software for autonomous vehicles, the manufacturers and their suppliers must evaluate their products for safety and performance. One of the most ...

Description: The biomedical industry runs on testing. Testing is at the heart of meeting extensive requirements to ensure healthcare practices and facilities are safe. A kind of testing that has been on all of our ...

Description: The PCS service feature is a unique offering you will find only at Transcat. It is effective in normalizing all your calibration data to help equipment users determine when measurement risk situations ...

Description: Laboratory accreditation is the formal recognition of an organization's technical competency to perform specific or types of tests or calibrations. ...

Description: The interesting thing about evolution is that change is inevitable, yet we are so resistant to change. Those who are closest to a change event are typically evenly divided: about half embrace the ...

Description: The reason to make the change from TAR to TUR within a company's quality documents is to maintain harmonization with the changes in global practices. ...

Description: As the skilled, baby-boomer workforce nears retirement, years of technical expertise is exiting as well. Factories are watching years of knowledge leave their organizations, and how to replace these ...

Description: There are several reasons why a commercial calibration company needs to know more than just the type of instrument they will be servicing for you ...

Description: Webinar on Ground Testing in Wind Farms ...

Description: Webinar on Ground Testing in Wind Farms ...

Description: Webinar on Ground Testing in Wind Farms ...

Description: A Decision Rule, as related to calibration, is meant to clarify to all parties involved (within your organization and external to your organization) the component of your quality system that notifies ...

Description: Testing is an agile business by its core definition. The structures and systems to be tested, whether it is in the automotive, aerospace, energy or civil engineering segment, keep evolving quickly and ...

Description: Modern manufacturing is global. One company's product - like a sedan, a tractor, or an airliner - may be made of materials from dozens of countries and assembled in dozens more. No matter how many ...

Description: Vacuum plasma is the treatment method of record for many manufacturers. Not only because it is a legacy technology proven useful over many, many decades, but because it can be particularly effective ...

Description: FULLY AUTOMATED ASTM D2983 CONDITIONING AND TESTING ON THE CANNON® TESC SYSTEM WHITE PAPER ...

Description: Hartford Steam Boiler (HSB) provides Third Party Inspection services of pressure equipment built to a recognized code, standard, regulation or customer defined specification. HSB's worldwide staff of ...

Description: Since the introduction of HALT and HASS testing in the late 1980s, technologies employed in product design have changed dramatically. ...

Description: The purpose of this paper is to communicate the numerous successes that have resulted from HALT, HASS, and other environmental testing used by IBM's Web Server division in Beaverton, Oregon. ...

Description: IPC-9592A: Requirements or Power Conversion Devices for the Computer and Telecommunications Industries ...

Description: Determining which HALT or HASS chamber can best meet your reliability program requirements takes more than a quick glance of spec' sheets. ...

Description: This method will assist HALT & HASS users to monitor PSD changes over time, develop PSD tolerances, evaluate variability between products in HASS, and also provide an effective tool to assess table ...

Description: HALT and HASS testing products...offer many advantages in accelerated testing. ...

Description: The goal of an Accelerated Stress Test program is to make cost effective improvements in product field reliability. ...

Description: The following information should help clarify the specifications used in HALT/HASS chambers. ...

Description: Highly Accelerated Stress Screening (HASS) is a production test process that has become a widely accepted method for detecting manufacturing or component changes in a product that could reduce product ...

Description: In recent years, the test techniques known as HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Testing) and HASS (Highly Accelerated Stress Screening) have been gaining advocates and practitioners. These test methods, ...

Description: The ever increasing pressure to more quickly deliver higher reliability products at lower costs is prevalent throughout major industries, such as avionics, communications, networking equipment, ...

Description: This paper will describe the metric of gRMS, how it is calculated in both the frequency and time domains and what factors can cause variations in gRMS calculations. ...

Description: Managing what comes into the production process has a massive impact on how effective and efficient the production process is ultimately going to be. For companies dealing with bonding, coating, ...

Description: Manufacturers utilize research and design laboratories all the time. To scale new products up to the production line, years of toiling in testing labs is done to ensure that everything goes off ...

Description: The Beam Position Monitor system of the ESS linac will include in total more than 140 BPM detectors of different sizes and types. The BPM system also needs to work successfully under offoptimal ...

Description: In this article we are presenting tests and development of digital low level RF control system Libera LLRF. Libera LLRF is a digital system small in size but powerful in terms of performance as tests ...

Description: The Libera LLRF system was demonstrated at FLASH ACC456. Three Libera LLRF units were configured in order to control the 24 acceleration cavities, 72 RF signals were acquired and processed in real ...

Description: The aim of the document is to describe the measurements performed at the European Spallation Source (ESS) with Libera Single Pass H, an instrument intended for phase, position and charge monitoring in ...

Description: Initial measurements and verification of the unit performance were conducted in the laboratory at Instrumentation technologies. The measurements were performed under various conditions, at different ...

Description: Proton cancer therapy is a state-of-the-art medical treatment technique based on an accelerator beam production facility. ...

Description: For optimal control and especially for accelerators aiming at the highest level of performance, for example FELs, these systems should be considered as a whole and work together. At Instrumentation ...

Description: The first Libera Photon units have been tested with a current source at Instrumentation Technologies and on a real beam at SOLEIL. ...

Description: Transcat utilizes high-performance instrumentation to provide high-quality traceability for the industry. Many of our assets operate at or near state-of-the-art, and the specifications can be quite ...

Description: Now that the customer has received the equipment back from the Calibration Service Provider (CSP) there are potentially pages and pages of data, which leaves many questions: ...

Description: The goal of your company is to be profitable in providing a superior, effective, and safe product or service. Your use of test and measuring instruments in this process indicates your need to base ...

Description: OSHA the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the US government's enforcement arm for safety and health issues has been tasked with overseeing professional independent testing laboratories. ...

Description: There are a number of ways that mistakes with preamps in test configurations can lead to misleading or incorrect readings or even damaged equipment and unnecessary costs. With some attention and ...

Description: An antenna calibration is a verification of performance and the measurement of the antennas properties. Much of the success or failure of EMC test depends on the performance of a calibrated antenna. ...

Description: The Biconical Antenna is considered a standard workhorse for every compliance test lab. Used in a variety of applications such as radiated emissions, immunity and shielding effectiveness testing; this ...

Description: Asphalt shingles are one of the most prevalent roof coverings used in North America. They are a composite product, with a base layer of paper or fibreglass, which is impregnated or coated with an ...

Description: In recent years, the use of a term call "Antenna Factor" in EMC and spectrum pollution work has become very important. There has been a great need for measuring field intensity and/or power density as ...

Description: This test procedure describes how the small signal performance data of an amplifier is gathered and checked against previously recorded data. This is a fault finding step that establishes the health ...

Description: One of the most common EMC test types is the radiated emissions test. Radiated emissions testing is the measurement of the electromagnetic field of the emissions that are unintentionally being ...

Description: Overview: Half wave dipole antennas are typically used for site attenuation measurments, shielding effectivness and as a gain reference antenna. They are the simplest and widely used class of ...

Description: Test Guide - Embedded digital processing chips are in virtually everything these days: cell phones, kitchen appliances, manufacturing equipment, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems - even ...

Description: how to calibrate your pressure transducer ...

Description: Creating and preparing a product for the marketplace is a challenging proposition, and between design, development, production, scale up, testing, market entry, and more, manufacturers and product ...

Description: Printed circuit boards (PCBs) mechanically support, and virtually connect, electronic components. Using conductive materials and pathways embedded and etched on sheets, PCBs are the 'brains' of ...

Description: There are many different types of vibration testing. Each vibrational test protocol is established to meet specific goals within the testing environment. Two of the most common types of vibrational ...

Description: Specifying a Device's Capabilities and How It Is Calibrated ...

Description: Digital Radiography has many benefits over film radiography, and has been used to substantially reduce cycle times while often producing superior image quality. ...

Description: A key element of the new product development cycle for companies in the automotive, military, medical device, and electronics industries is shock and mechanical vibration testing. For unbiased ...

Description: The air-bearing seal is effectively frictionless and permits dynamic oscillatory testing throughout the frequency range of the instrument. ...

Description: Certain modified Ostwald-type viscometers for transparent liquids (like the Cannon-Fenske Routine and the Cannon-Manning Semi-Micro) and reverse-flow viscometers for opaque and transparent liquids ...

Description: Rheology is defined as the study of the flow and deformation of fluids. Based on the need to quickly and accurately set and control processing conditions, optimize product performance, and/or ensure ...

Description: Rheological phenomenon is found in every coatings operation. Coatings, being complex structured fluids, need to be characterized by their structure and flow properties in order to be applied ...

Description: Hydrated gluten, soy concentrate, and mixtures of both were heated at 90 8C for 0.5 to 6 h. All heated samples were analyzed for viscoelastic properties and SDS-PAGE electrophoretograms. Results of ...