Recently, we told you about our own quality system, the UP-Quality system, and how we always go one step further to ensure exceptional performance in our connection systems thanks to crimping curves and insertion curves. Today, we want to highlight the importance of stress testing and quality trials, which play a fundamental role in achieving the most demanding results through the use of tolerance bands. These tolerance bands are reflected in the graphs of the test results, indicating the path that the insertion curves should follow.
For each quality test, we maintain a meticulous record that includes the terminal roll number, its reference, the batch number and the operator performing the test, thus ensuring complete traceability.
Tolerance bands, which set the upper and lower limits of the stress test, determine whether or not the terminal meets the requirements. At the same time, the stress program provides us with specific values such as the first insertion, the first extraction and the sixth extraction, as required by the standards G1210 8.1 and S UL310 6.4.
All these effort ratings are performed in duplicate, both manually using dynamometers and with the help of the latest generation ZwickRoell machinery. This approach ensures the integrity of the terminals' behavior, since we obtain results from two different and independent sources, all of which are documented in the UP Quality system.