9400 SERIES
Reliable, repeatable results whatever your application
The Instron Drop Tower 9400 Series was developed to deliver faster results, fewer errors, and lower training costs for customers who are under pressure to deliver higher quality advanced materials for stronger yet lighter products.
This is achieved by simplifying workflows, providing preconfigured and prompted tests, streamlining data and exporting it for analysis, whilst providing advanced capability with high speed video and more.
These capabilities all make the 9400 Drop Tower Series
Simpler Smarter Safer
Simpler
Powered by Bluehill® Impact
Bluehill Impact is built from the ground up for touch interaction. The Operator Dashboard features large touchpoints to make the user experience simpler and smarter. Easy-to-understand icons and workflows make it easy to train new or experienced users, simplify operator training, and allow you to start testing even faster than before.
The easy set up of the carriage, masses, tups, and supports allow you to benefit from high testing capabilities. Easily switch from high to low loads and from coupon to component testing.
Thanks to prompted tests and the integrated touch panel, test set up procedures require just a few clicks. Users can be guided through the entire testing process with step-by-step instructions, ensuring tests remain repeatable, simple, and error-free. Prompts are fully customizable with bespoke text or messages.
Bluehill Impact provides a set of pre-configured methods to cover the most common impact testing scenarios.
Productivity is increased by 20% thanks to the combination of the new Dashboard and Bluehill Impact providing faster data acquisition and results.
Smarter
Integrated innovations for Efficient Tests
Users can define unique data flow and procedures ensuring data processing flexibility. Bluehill Impact reports on anomalies and inconsistent results when they are outside set parameters.
Easily share test method and results within your company or direct to your customers with our new file management system.
Automatic alerts are generated when Tup calibration period is expiring. This feature helps to reduce the risk of invalid tests and protect your results against inaccuracies.
Increase your characterization data with the use of high speed cameras. The 9400 Drop Towers are equipped with a high-speed camera connection to allow for a simultaneous and synchronized acquisition of high speed video with the Force profile.
View your test from any side and record fur future reference. When using a high speed camera, you save time by not having to move accessories when you change specimens or test method.
Our tups are calibrated over different percentages of the maximum capacity – this allows you to refine the force scale resulting in better load resolution as well as higher levels of system flexibility.
Safer
Safety Without Sacrificing Throughput
Integrated safety circuits
Never loose your results, even if power is lost during the test or the operator completes an unscheduled shutdown.
Bluehill Impact security allows the Lab manager to configure permissions in the software, granting full permissions to super users and limiting access where needed.
The 9400 system is a fully enclosed system to conform with CE regulations. As an additional safety measure, the system gives clear visual information on the instrument status, so users always know when a test is in progress.