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Dynamic Testing of Flexible Material
World-class design of high speed testing equipment
Empowering Your Product Innovation
Quality Control

Dynamic Testing of Flexible Material

Dynamic testing of flexible material typically happens in the mechanical lab's of material manufacturers and their customers. They validate new products used in a broad range of applications.

Manufactured fine wire, fiber & band materials in aluminium, aramid, copper, man-made, steel, textile, tungsten & al are used to reinforce a lot of flexible products.
All those products have to be validated on their own application-specific dynamic fatigue or wearing requirements :
- high flex electronic cable
- composite tape on a wheel flexing
- lift & hoisting cable
- flex printed circuit board material
- rope and cable with man-made fiber, steel wire based or combination
- flat, V & time power belt transmission
- bulk transport belt
- steel & aramid cord reinforced tire
- textile reinforced flexible rubber products

Because of the diversity of application of those flexible materials and their composites, dynamic testing in this field is still missing relevant normalized tests with world-wide industry acceptance. In those conditions the material manufacturers are generally developing in-house test equipment to simulate the degrading behavior of their products in the field, hoping for relevance between their mechanical lab tests and the in-field application.

Especially in the field of the high performance testing of flexible materials with "big motion - high speed - high & variable load" , the machine design requires very specialized knowledge in dynamic mechanics as well as high speed mechatronics. Because of the specialized craftsmanship in high speed machinery and typical development cost required, most material manufacturers, who need to focus heavily on their own product innovation & quality control, are now preferring to rely on experienced partners.

On the other hand, the typical problem that those material manufacturers & their customers face daily is the lack of concordance between their respective test methods. So the creation of product-specific but generic test methods can fundamentally help value-creating producers by :
- enabling openness & confidence on quality between business partners, using matching testing methods
- simplify the entrance in new application markets
- shortening the time to validate the good quality of a product
- dramatically reduce the loss of time & costs, caused by providing or using bad quality
- through transparent comparison promote the value-creating suppliers on the world-market
- creating real leadership on product specifications that may be openly challenged

The development of generic & modular equipment permits to spread the development cost of high speed machinery. This is not only reducing the operational costs and product development time, but also eases the deployment of simplified versions of the equipment to be used by operators of quality control equipment in the production plant.

Empower Your Product Innovation

We understand that to empower your innovation, the testing equipment does not only need performance & reliability.
We provide a complete "battery" of observation methods to enable you to analyse & fully understand the real-life degradation behaviour of your products.
We put high efforts in the development of specific early-warning methods., to permit the mechlab analyst to understand the real reasons of product degradation :

Test & sample visibility
- Smooth operation permitting deployment in a desktop environment near the desk of the mechlab analyst
- Perfect viewing of sample and test conditions during test-run
- Good lighting conditions
- Always with operator security in mind

Early-warning systems
- Test behaviour monitoring sensors
- On-line graphical representation of those signals during the test
- Detection wizzards of first sample degradation
- Evaluation of further degradation behaviour

World-class design of high speed testing equipment

Thanks to more than 30 years experience on Engineering in the field of high speed machinery for the manufacturing industry, bogimac build up the Technology typically requested in those applications.
We also master the mechanical lab methodologies. We start by getting full understanding of the material specifications and field-usage conditions, so as to achieve relevant relationship between field-usage & test-conditions.

We use and sharpen our craftsmanship continuously, aiming for the best customer value on :
- Relevant test method without cross dependency physics
- Reliability of results & usage
- Low deviation in the results
- Performance by high speed & multihead operation
- Industrial design
- Ergonomics on sample manipulation & observation
- Ease of use & operator efficiency
- Easy test setting with task based wizards
- Low noise emission, permitting installation in desktop environment for easy followup
- Energy saving
- Zero tolerance on operator security
- Conform to norms & best practices
- Providing optional integrated climatic conditioning
- Design for serial production
- Generic & modular concept for broad application field

Quality Control

Thanks to the modular design simplified versions without all the analysis functionality are deployed in the production plant, to be used easily by unqualified operators.

Bogimac nv-sa, Brusselsesteenweg 107, BE-1850 Grimbergen, Belgium, tel+32-2-27242-00, fax+32-2-27242-01, www.bogimac.com