Interactive Manufacturing Ltd

Functional Testing

A Production Test & Validation Machine that was developed to check that manufactured Compressor Units operated within pre-determined acceptance parameters.

The machine undertook a series of sequential test operations including pressure burst test, helium leak testing, voltage / current measurement, noise (vibration) analysis prior to automatically filling the compressor with the relevant quantity of oil.

The equipment utilised a programmable logic controller for the sequencing of the ‘switched’ operations, a microprocessor unit for the measurement analysis and an industrial visual display unit for status / test result indication. All relevant testing / comparison parameters and oil fill times were automatically selected upon entering of the compressor model type via the machine’s integrated alpha / numerical keyboard.