Testing
We select and conduct tests that best suit your needs and those of your product, utilizing our wide range of equipment to ensure its quality and safety.
Objetive. Opening and closing a furniture drawer repetitively
Our client, a supermarket furniture manufacturer, wants to test the drawer of his new display furniture by opening and closing it repeatedly. Its objective is to carry out accelerated aging of the furniture to check the number of cycles it is able to withstand in its lifetime. It is very important to ensure its durability since the product will be in direct contact with supermarket users for several years.
Solution. We designed a test with UR10 robot for repetitive opening and closing
The first step was to know the mechanism of our client’s furniture. Thus we were able to design the best ad hoc test to perform repetitive and standardized openings and closings. In this case we select we use our collaborative robot UR10, capable of performing the same force as a human arm, to simulate the action of opening and closing the drawer.
This work is essential to be able to automate the accelerated aging test.
Once the movement was designed, the accelerated rehearsal began. During the cycles we detected small malfunctions in the furniture mechanism, which we explained to our client and with this information, they were able to redesign the product and improve its materials and components.
After making these improvements, we ran the accelerated aging test again. At this point, we verified that the final design did not suffer any deterioration during the test, so a minimum of 5 years of lifetime could be ensured under normal conditions of use.
Finally, we prepared a summary report with all the work carried out, for our client to share with their respective clients. This document was valued very positively in our client’s sales process.
