ScienScope View X - Automated X-ray Inspection (Newstead QLD)

Purpose

Utilised to provide assurance of the correct fitting of obscured items such as BGAs, fine pitch devices and other concealed devices. It offers significant advantages in defect analysis such as cold solder joints, bridging, solder balls, voids and other anomalies that are not detectable with optical solutions or the naked eye.

Specifications

3-D imagery is a proven method for deep inspection of component and PCB characteristics. X-ray inspection for Printed Circuit Assemblies (particularly larger boards) is not readily available in Australia. 

Instron Materials Testing System (Castle Hill NSW)

Purpose

The materials testing system is used for the tensile, compressive and cyclic testing of materials and/or components.

Specifications

The Instron 5500 is capable of testing in tension and compress up to 100KN and is completeley computer controlled. This type of materails testing capability is limited to only a few organisation within Australia. The cost of the testing system makes its availability and accessability to SME's is very limited.

Pump Performance Testing Facility (Sunshine VIC)

Purpose

To test centrifugal pumps for hydraulic and mechanical performance.

Specifications

Only one of its kind in Australia and it is not generally available due to high capital cost ($3m).

Brüel & Kjær Head and Torso Simulator (HATS) - Type 4128‑D-002 (South Melbourne VIC)

Purpose

The developments in technology have changed the shape and size of telephone handsets and headsets. To ensure these latest handsets and headsets are tested to the appropriate standards according to the design principles used by the manufacturer, testing is performed in a Head and Torso Simulator (HATS) which incorporates Type 3.3 left and right artificial ears.

Specifications

The Head and Torso Simulator Type 4128-D-002 is a mannequin with built-in mouth simulator and calibrated ear simulators (according to IEC 60318.4/ITU‑T Rec. P.57 Type 3.3) that provide realistic reproduction of the acoustic properties of an average adult human head and torso. It is ideal for performing in-situ electro-acoustic tests on, for example, telephone handsets (including mobile and cordless), headsets, audio conference devices, microphones, headphones, hearing aids and hearing protectors. 

Air Cooled Heat Exchanger Test Unit (Canning Vale WA)

Purpose

Designed in Europe this piece of equipment allows the best combination of exchanger construction and fan performance to be determined.  Testing typically involves making a heat exchanger matrix into a test piece size, placing it in a test unit, putting heat into a fluid (typically oil, water or gas) and removing that heat by moving cooling air over its surface. Information accurately gathered includes flows, velocities, pressure losses, temperature changes, heat loads, humidity and relative humidity with this data being entered into design software for analysis and extrapolation.

Specifications

By fitting a sample exchanger to the test unit its cooling performance can be assessed under a variety of conditions. The inputs into the heat exchanger are varied and both these inputs and the heat rejection of the exchanger are measured; from this a performance value can be assigned to the test piece. Using this value the data can be extrapolated to determine the performance of larger exchangers based on the same design. The result of this testing is an accurate understanding the thermal capacity of each matrix under various conditions such as ambient air temperature, cooling air angle of attack, internal velocities, to name a few. This understanding enables design optimisation, and is followed by product development, manufacture and proof testing.

ISO-11092 Sweating Guarded Hotplate (Moorabbin VIC)

Purpose

This test unit is housed inside an environmental chamber in order to comply with testing parameters compliance with ISO-11092

Moisture Vapour Resistance Determination - Textiles - Physiological Effects - Measurement of Thermal and Water Vapour Resistance under Steady-State Conditions (Sweating Guarded-Hotplate Test.)  Measures the breathability of textiles and laminates, etc. (especially apparel) and also the insulating performance of textiles and laminates, etc.

Specifications

The test (ISO-11092) is internationally recognised as definitive of performance characterisation.  The computerised enhancements also enable extensive detail and data collection to be recorded and analysed and reported, well beyond any other Australasian-available device. The test unit is capable of assessment of 5 specimens (each in triplicate) per day. If a combination of Moisture Vapour Resistance and Thermal resistance assessments are required, a 24 hour interval between test types must be allowed in any test time schedule, to enable stabilisation of Relative Humidity and temperature requirements, which differ significantly for each test.

High Voltage Testing Equipment (South Melbourne VIC)

Purpose

To test Telecommunications and for other resistability to lightning and other over-voltages and over-currents

Specifications

The equipment is able to test to the requirements of ITU-T recommendations K.44 (including K.20, K21 and K.45).

• The equipment can provide the following:
  6kV open circuit voltage with a wave shape of 1.2/50 ms and a short circuit 3 kA 8/20 ms combination wave.
• High current impulse of 30 kA with a 8/20 ms waveshape
• Impulse of up to 7 kV with a waveshape of 10/700 ms.
• Up to1,500 Vrms (200W @ 10 A2s) power induction and earth potential rise.
• Mains contact of 240 Vrms form 24 mA to 24 A.

Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer (Bulleen VIC)

Purpose

Inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) is a testing technique used to detect the presence of trace metals.  It is a type of emission spectroscopy that uses the inductively coupled plasma to produce excited atoms and ions that emit electromagnetic radiation at wavelengths characteristic of a particular element. The intensity of this emission is indicative of the concentration of the element within the sample 

Specifications

The 730-ES series has been specifically configured for maximum productivity, including productivity enhancing features such as a patented CCD detector, a fully automated switching valve system, a 4-channel pump and mass flow nebulizer gas control.

Accurate-Mass TOF LC/MS System (Bulleen VIC)

Purpose

The Agilent Accurate-Mass TOF LC/MS system provides accurate-mass analyses for profiling, identifying, characterizing, and quantifying low molecular-weight compounds and biomolecules. These TOF systems deliver exceptional MS analyses that support demanding applications such as proteomics, metabolomics, impurity testing, product degradation studies, forensics, food safety, and environmental analyses. 

Specifications

• Typical mass accuracy – sub-3-ppm MS improves confidence and reduces false positives
• Enhanced mass resolution – greater than 10,000 resolving power distinguishes target compounds from interferences and contributes to outstanding mass accuracy
• Data acquisition rates – up to 40 spectra per second assures maximum data quality and compatibility with fast chromatography and high-throughput workflows, greater flexibility
• In-spectrum dynamic range – up to 5 orders reveal trace-level targets even in the presence of vastly more abundant compounds
• Time-of-flight mass range – m/z 20 – 20,000 enables analysis of anything from pesticides to intact proteins
• Automated tuning to ensure repeatable and reliable data

Mitutoyo DCC Co-ordinate Measuring Machine (Langwarrin VIC)

Purpose

Mitutoyo Crysta Apex DCC CMM running Mcosmos software for high accuracy dimensional metrology of components. Available for calibration, reverse engineering, dimensional measurement and Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing GD&T. DCC CMM provides the most accurate method of dimensional measurement.

Specifications

Volumetric size: X, 700mm Y, 1000mm Z, 600mm with a resolution to 0.1micron.

Gas Gun (Hawthorn VIC)

Purpose

Conduct ballistic tests at velocities up to 620 m/s.

Specifications

• Barrel length: 6m
• Barrel bore: 12.78mm
• Propellant gas: Nitrogen and Helium
• Maximum operating pressure: 15MPa 

500 MHz NMR Spectrometer (Bulleen VIC)

Purpose

NMR spectroscopy affords simple to complex spectra with absorption peaks containing detailed information about the electronic environment of the atom being detected. The interpretation of peaks allows the structure of unknown organic and inorganic compounds to be determined. NMR is a fundamental and essential tool in the fields of pharmaceutical, organic, inorganic, analytical, forensic and biological chemistry. The Bruker AV500 is the most advanced NMR instrument in a private laboratory in Australia.

Specifications

• Actively Shielded Superconducting Magnet with 5.4 cm bore, operation field at 11.744 Tesla (500.1MHz proton resonance frequency).
• Three RF Channels
• BCU-05, pre-cooling and stabilization accessory.
• BVT Low Temperature Accessory.
• Equipped with (GRASP ™ II) accessory for the generation of gradients with up to 50 Gauss/cm.
• Broad band inverse detection 5mm probe
• Proton/carbon LC-NMR probe with 60μL cell.
• Sixty position autosampler for automated operation.

Hydra Test VBT 20007 (Coffs Harbour NSW)

Purpose

The Hydra Test VBT is a high pressure test bench for modern Automatic transmission Valve Body's Used in conjunction with a data acquisition software package it is used to test and calibrate the modern valve bodies in many European and American automatic transmissions.