In today’s fast moving and ever-evolving electronics market, competition forces OEMs to constantly push the boundaries of innovation to deliver smaller, thinner, and lighter products, without sacrificing quality or safety. As electronic devices become more compact and complex, OEMs and their supply chains have had to miniaturize sub-level components, while also utilizing high density packaging. This exposes the mechanical risk of failure and can impact the quality of products reaching the consumer.
Manufacturers face critical decisions throughout the entire product development process and post production for quality assurance. As a total solutions provider, Instron offers a range of solutions for testing consumer electronic devices, microelectronic components, and general applications, helping industry experts extract key performance insights that enable them to make informed decisions at every stage.
Fixtures, load cells and environmental chambers can be added to any Instron system to adapt to changing product development and market requirements.
The average life of Instron systems is over two decades, ensuring our customers can be confident in their investment.
Instron customers trust that any new system is intuitive and easy to use for an operator of all skill levels for any application.
Instron makes our own sensors from load cells to extensometers, ensuring optimum system performance.
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Bluehill Universal equipped with the Operator Dashboard allows for a small physical footprint on an Instron system. This small footprint allows labs to save space, stay organized, and keep clean.
➜ Consumer Electronic Devices
➜ Microelectronics
➜ General Purpose Applications
Customer satisfaction relies on devices being durable, withstanding demanding daily use, and often misuse. Mobile devices have become indispensable and users expect touchscreens, buttons, and batteries to work reliably. Laptop keyboards and screens are critical to functionality, whether for business, academia or personal use. Consumer products must also withstand the daily accidents to which they are subjected, such as dropping mobile devices, bending headphones, and forceful pulling in power cables. Mechanical testing can simulate these events as companies design better, more robust products.
Multi-Point Compression Testing of Screens
Bend Testing of Screens
Button and Switch Tactility Testing
Bend Testing of Cables and Wires
Bend Testing of Devices
Compression Testing of Batteries
Headphones Compression Testing
Insert and Extract Testing on Devices
Peel Testing of ScreensAs devices get smaller, so do the components used in their assembly. Instron systems offer the strain and load cell precision to accurately test miniature sub-level components. A range of specialized grips and fixtures allows tensile, flexure, tensile, compression, shear, and torsion testing on printed circuit board (PCB) materials, components and adhesives. Tests can range from characterizing copper clad laminates for printed boards, to micro compression testing of integrated circuits, to flexural fatigue on fully populated PCBs.
Die Shear Testing
Bend Testing of Electronic Packages
Bend Testing of Printed Circuit Boards
Compression Testing of IC Packages
Lead Frame and Wire Bond Pull Test
Solder Ball Compression Test
Stud Pull Test for Electronic Packages
Tensile Testing of Copper Clad Laminates (CCL)
Torsion Testing of Flexible Circuits
Electronics components are used in many applications, including the medical, automotive, and energy industries. Selecting the proper materials, adhesives and packaging and the evaluation of component and product reliability requires a range of mechanical tests.
Lap Shear Test
Peel Testing Photovoltaic or Solar Cells
Pin Pull Test of Connectors
Tension Testing of Cables and Wires
Universal Testing System
Commonly used to perform tensile, compression, peel, and bend tests up to 2 kN force capacity on consumer electronics, microelectronics, and general applications.
Universal Testing System
Commonly used to perform tensile, compression, peel, and bend tests up to 50 kN force capacity on consumer electronics, microelectronics, and general applications.
Multi-Point Compression, Flex and Tension Testing
This automated XY stage allows operators to perform multi-point compression, flex and tension testing on a variety of consumer devices and electronic components.
Testing Fixture
Die shear testing fixture is used for adhesive bond characterization, design validation, and failure analysis on a printed circuit boards (PCB).
for Biaxial Testing
Commonly used to reduce product development time and simulate real-world applications of products such as PCBs and screens.
Fatigue Testing System
Perform high-frequency fatigue testing to evaluate the durability of consumer products, microelectronic subassemblies and other electronic components.