Torque tester helps reduce wastage

Performing static and rotary torque tests at the push of a button, the standalone Vortex-xt system requires no PC, making it suitable for production areas.

This modern torque tester is designed to cut costs, by improving production-line efficiency and reducing wastage.

It is targeted at engineers in the aerospace, automotive and medical-device industries that need to measure clockwise and counter-clockwise torque when developing and manufacturing rotary components.

Typical applications include positive ’click’ on engagement of aerospace, automotive and medical-device controls, such as ignition switches, valves and automotive stalks.

Tests can be run with merely two clicks of the touch-screen interface and event marks can be added to the test-plotting switch actuation.

Providing colour-coded results, the large display is designed to enable easy identification of pass/fail sample conformance.

The Vortex-xt is designed to make routine measurements quick, while still providing users with detailed results data, as well as reporting capabilities, if required.

Users have the choice of viewing a graphical ’live’ display of the test for observational purposes, or of multiple test results in tabulated form, to begin making comparisons and, subsequently, to evaluate them in more depth with a choice of calculations.

The data collected can then be easily exported to statistical process-control software.

Up to five frequently used tests can be stored for quick access and initiation by different users, without the need for a high level of technical or test-application knowledge.

Password protection allows administrators to alter test setup and template design, thereby avoiding any accidental changes to programmable functions.

Rated to 10Nm, the Vortex-xt completes Mecmesin’s range of three motorised torque-testing systems, which includes the basic Vortex-d and the top-of-the-range Vortex-i computer-controlled test system.

Mecmesin is a privately owned British company, based in Slinfold, West Sussex, which provides bespoke products and has a special applications department.