Verification testing is required to ensure that manufactured goods or products meet certain criteria, such as customer, British or International standards. This testing will confirm the manufactured parts conform to, or fail to meet, those standards. A company will outsource their testing if they cannot test their own product themselves, if their in-house testing capacity is full, or when impartial, independent advice is required.
This impartial test requirement may follow a test already completed internally by the manufacturer or the producer as part of their R&D, to establish the best parameters for their product’s strength, durability, quality, and function. They need to ensure the way they design and manufacture the product suits functionality and conforms to safety/quality standards. Their in-house technicians may not have the specialist knowledge, dedicated equipment, or ability to undertake the stringent, comprehensive testing requirements offered by a UKAS accredited lab.
We have encountered situations when products have passed internal testing but failed when examined against the environmental test parameters needed to ensure the quality of product in the field. This allows the customer to modify the product, manufacturing process or procedures to ensure the goods are fit for purpose and free from threat of legal actions or costly in-service failures.
Testing with loads from 1KN up to 1.6MN, at elevated temperatures up 1400°C for coated specimens, in vacuum, pressured or corrosive atmospheres and controlled to complex test parameters, allows us to provide a bespoke, non-standard testing solution for our customers.
Outsourced testing may also be utilised when the customer’s testing frequency is not sufficient to invest in their own testing laboratory/facility, as we have often found.