Manufacturing Support, Test Equipment

End User/Market: Production facility in China, warehouse facility in USA

Background:

A manifold in a consumer product uses solenoids to control air flow to air chambers to establish and maintain a user selected air pressure in the chamber. The pneumatic integrity of the manifold is critical to success of the consumer product.

Opportunity:

Develop automated test equipment to quickly verify the pneumatic integrity of the manifold.

Solution:

Develop hardware to interface pressure transducers to an eight channel, 16-bit, analog input USB module with digital outputs. Develop VB.NET application to control the solenoids in the manifold, measure air pressure over time and determine the pneumatic integrity of the manifold.

Results:

Test equipment accurately measures integrity of the manifold in a short period of time.

Technologies:

USB analog/digital module, pressure transducer, VB.NET, solenoid, digital filter.