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Shock announcement; TRaC extends environmental test services
New investment adds Drop-test Shock Machine to extensive product test facilities. TRaC has further extended its environmental test capabilities with the installation of a Lansmont 95 shock test machine.
The investment, at TRaC's Warwick facility, augments a shock, impact and vibration test installation that already comprises 14 electromagnetic "shakers" and an alternative design of drop test machine.
The Lansmont 95 is a vertical free-fall drop shock test unit, with a square table size of 950 x 950 mm and a payload capacity (mass of the unit to be tested) of 1000 kg. It provides a carefully-controlled environment for drop-testing, in which shock pulses have a known profile and are fully repeatable. The test machine will apply half sine, final peak sawtooth and trapezoidal waveforms, at acceleration levels of up to 800g. It allows shock testing with the device-under-test energised, and has the facility to acquire up to ten channels of data from the shock test.
TRaC's environmental test laboratory is fully UKAS accredited; the area in which the new machine has been installed is purpose-built, with all appropriate safety features, and can carry out testing on both commercial and defence equipment.
TRaC gains full accreditation for IEC/EN60601 medical device testing
TRaC is now able to offer testing of medical equipment in accordance with the IEC/EN60601 standard. TRaC is fully accredited by UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Service) to test equipment in accordance with the international standard.
IEC/EN60601 is a family of standards that govern safety of electrical medical equipment, and is identical with the International IEC standard 60601; approval under the standard is a fundamental requirement before a manufacturer can market any electrical device for patient diagnostics, monitoring or care, in any market world-wide. The standard sets minimum requirements not only for basic electrical safety, but also for EMC (electromagnetic compatibility) and mechanical safety, as well as a range of other parameters, according to the particular technology employed in any particular item of medical equipment.
Developers of medical electrical systems now have a single point of contact for all their safety and EMC testing needs; TRaC is able to offer a cost-effective route to product certification, with good lead-times, in this specialised sector where the necessary expertise has often been difficult to locate.
TRaC already holds accreditation to carry out safety testing of all medical diagnostic