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From Thermotron Industries
Dramatic field repair savings. Reduced unit costs. Satisfied customers. Increased profitability. These are some of the promises of control over an elusive but necessary aspect of electronic hardware performance: product reliability. Gaining this control requires both an understanding of why products* fail and the advantages of finding, forcing and correcting these failures in-house. Of critical importance is being able to address the types of product failure modes that may not be discovered through inspection or testing, such as: • Parameter drift • Printed circuit board shorts and opens • Incorrect part installation • Wrong part installation • Contaminated part • Hermetic seal failure • Foreign material contamination • Cold solder joints • Defective parts Products & Services
Automated test equipment (ATE) is used to monitor and control test and measurement devices, keeping human interaction at a minimum.
Protective relays and monitoring relays detect or monitor for abnormal power system conditions.
Remediation services include oil or chemical spill clean up, restoration of contaminated sites, and hazardous waste management. Common projects include oil collection, asbestos removal, spill vacuuming, brown field rehabilitation, soil recovery and river dredging.
Spray guns and applicators form a coating by directing atomized paints, adhesives, liquids or powders toward a surface.
Mechanical testing equipment covers devices used for adhesion, compression, drop (shock), tensile, vibration and fatigue testing.
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Topics of Interest
Watt’s law relates voltage and amperage to power.
Power = voltage × amperage
Watts = volts × amps
W =V ×A
Ohm’s law, the most fundamental law of...
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Many progressive die stamping processes use a spring-actuated plunger at each die station to verify part positioning. To verify correct part positioning, these plungers must often be within a fraction...
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Machine vision systems are masters at finding defective products and packages. For instance, the Alumivision system from Micron Development Group can find pinhole defects in moving webs of blister...
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Although ESS may use chambers and shakers resembling those used for an environmental test, the purpose is different. In ESS it stimulates just-produced or just-overhauled equipment (usually an...
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The Challenge of Safety Systems Electronic systems that carry out safety functions, such as gas detection systems, are becoming more complex, making it impossible in practice to determine every...
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Technical Articles
ESS Handbook (.pdf)
- Test and Measurement
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