Nightingale Hospital Supplier Choses Tinius Olsen Testing Equipment

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Tinius Olsen are delighted to be supplying one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of electrical terminals and earthing products, as part of their significant company investment in 2020.


Total Connections 2009 have made this investment to expand their in-house testing facility as a part of their overall product development strategy. Based in Calne, Wiltshire, they supply some of the largest organisations in the UK including Airbus (specifically A350), McLaren for non-production motorsport cars and BAE Systems for military applications. Other customers include Jaguar Cars, the London Underground and the Royal Navy. 


They have also supplied products to the NHS Temporary Nightingale and Field hospitals in the fight against the current Covid 19 pandemic. 


“Total Connections 2009 Ltd have made a significant investment in new machinery in 2020, mainly to automate our manufacturing processes and increase our overall offering,” said Director of Engineering, Ross Davies. 


“As a Design Engineer, this machine is exciting for me as it will massively help with our product development, giving us the ability to carry out mechanical tests of cable assemblies up to and in excess of 1000mm2 to BSEN61238.” 


The machine in question is a Tinius Olsen 50ST, which can be used for tension, compression, flexure and shear strength testing on materials and assemblies. In this instance, the machine will be mainly employed in cable testing and pull out testing of a 2000amp plug and socket for a railway industry application.


 A variety of loadcells are available at differing capacities that give precise applied load measurements from the smallest test specimen, to ones that go to full machine capacity. The 50ST becomes a complete, powerful test system, with thee addition of grips to hold the specimen, strain measurement instrumentation and of course, the Tinius Olsen Horizon testing software.


“Our 50ST is an extended machine, down rated to 25kN due to the extension. This was required as there was not enough cross head movement for the larger lugs we produce, as the standard we are testing to requires a minimum of 500mm of visible cable between lugs.”



“We started looking for a suitable UTM over a year ago and were really impressed with the way Tinius Olsen went that extra mile to help. This included the writing of a bespoke program and a site visit to demo a 5kN machine to BSEN61238, which performed the test exactly as requested,” said Ross.


“I was also very impressed with the accuracy of the load cells with the 25kN load cell calibrated down to 50N, whereas an equivalent machine from another manufacturer we considered was down to 5% (1250N) and accurate within 0.5% of reading.”


“The range was also a big factor as we will be testing from 100N on plug contact force tests, all the way up to 25kN on the cable tests. Another major factor was the ease of use of the accompanying Horizon testing software.”


But it isn’t just the capabilities of the 50ST that has impressed Ross.


“One other thing I noted on delivery was the packaging was some of the best I have seen, even though we were only 100miles from Tinius Olsen, it was packaged like it could ship to the other side of the world.”


https://www.totalconnections2009.co.uk



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For further information contact Richard Coombs at richard.coombs@tiniusolsen.com









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