| Robert Bosch Australia Pty Ltd., a global market leader supplying automotive components, power tools and household appliances with production facilities in Australia, has chosen Zwick as the preferred supplier of a materials testing system for the complex task of measuring the insertion and extraction force of electrical connectors. The machine has been purchased to improve the quality and repeatability of test results, and also to enable Bosch to improve the product lead-times.
Zwick, via its Singapore headquarters, and Testing and Production Engineers Pty Ltd., their Australian based sales and service representative for Australia and New Zealand, were able to demonstrate that the ProLine range of digital testing machines was the ideal choice for the customer, due to the modular and flexible design concept of the hardware and software. Extensometry, which will be required later on, can simply be added to the system via the “plug and play” technology pioneered by Zwick more than 20 years ago.
With over 150 years of materials testing experience within its group Zwick brings major benefits to its European customers who have production facilities located around the world. As a global leading manufacturer of materials testing equipment and supplier of support services, customers can be assured of excellent technical and application support wherever they choose to locate their production facilities.
Most of the materials testing software available today is based on International Standards, and contains fixed algorithms or pre-programmed functionality. Whilst being ideal for such standardized tests, customers often need to carry out tests to internal company standards or to define completely specialized tests. Bosch were impressed with Zwick’s testXpert® II software, and particularly its integrated Graphical Sequence Editor, as this module allowed then a high degree of flexibility for their required test sequences.
The easy-to-use flowchart style user interface does not require any knowledge of programming, and once configured, the integrated “virtual testing machine” allows the whole process to be ‘tested’ before a real specimen is inserted into the testing machine. This brings cost and time saving advantages for customers where only one specimen is available, or is expensive to produce and, for safety reasons, helps to ensure that the testing machine parameters are correctly set-up. |
