#machines testing

[acetestlabs]

What is Environmental Testing?

Environmental testing is one of the essential tests that evaluate the effects of environmental conditions like temperature, humidity, vibration, and pollution on products, materials, or systems. Environmental testing is crucial if you are a manufacturer of products or consumer goods. That helps you to check their durability, complexity, and performance before launching them in the market. In this guide, you will gain an in-depth understanding of environmental testing and its types and much more. Let’s get started!

Introduction to Environmental Testing

Environmental testing is the process of examining a range of products or consumer goods. It helps manufacturers know how their manufactured item reacts in real-world conditions. This includes electronics and IT Testing, pharmaceuticals, automobiles testing, aerospace testing, defense and military, energy efficiency testing, and medical devices. A team of testers executes a series of environmental tests and inspections in real-world conditions.

Types of Environmental Testing

When choosing environmental tests, identify the best type for your needs. Organizations seek help with different environmental testing depending on their industry, materials, and the standards they are testing on (such as those set by the NABL, BIS, ISO, and more). There may be the following types of environmental tests that you are aware of:

Cycling

Cycling is a type of environmental test in which a team of testers exposes your goods to extreme temperatures and varying humidity levels. This process inspects the device for changing conditions to assess its performance and durability. Your goods will be kept in a fixed environmental testing lab for a period, then quickly exposed to a different condition. Cycling testing tells how your device is reliable and resistant to environmental stress.

Steady-State Testing

Steady-state testing involves evaluating your device under constant environmental conditions, like temperature, humidity, or pressure, for extended periods. Unlike a cycling test, steady-state testing is about assessing the device constantly for an extended period. This electronic device test shows how stable and durable your device is in extreme environmental conditions. It is important for many products or equipment, such as automotive parts, HVAC and mechanical, medical devices, and industrial machinery.

Thermal Shock Testing

Thermal shock testing provides access to a product’s ability to withstand temperature changes. Its purpose is to check the durability of your model in hot and cold conditions. It identifies vulnerabilities such as cracks or failures and malfunctions in your equipment. This home appliance testing is important for refrigerators, air conditioners, microwaves, and washing machines. This assures that your model can be reliable, long-lasting, and conform to quality standards in harsh environments.

Corrosion Testing

Corrosion testing identifies the resistance of your material to degradation from environmental factors like moisture, chemicals, and salt exposure. It is paramount for goods such as automotive parts, aerospace components, marine equipment, pipelines, construction materials, and electronic devices. With the help of electronic device tests, you can enhance the reliability of your materials. As a manufacturer, it allows you to create cost-effective commodities. This helps you have adaptive failure resistance, variability, and longer material lifespan.

The Importance of Environmental Testing

Why do industries conduct environmental testing in the first place? The number of importance of this testing makes people get help from the environmental testing laboratories. We have covered some of the key importance of environmental testing: 

Reduces Maintenance and Replacement Costs

With the help of environmental testing, you can identify weaknesses and loopholes in your products. This gives you early access to prevent premature failures. When you test your goods with the help of an accredited testing laboratory, you have the power to reduce warranty claims and save your business money in the long run. This is the perfect way to reduce maintenance and replacement costs. 

Ensures Compliance with Standards

There are strict rules and regulations for the products or equipment used in many industries. In fields like aerospace, automotive, and electronics, you need to follow industrial regulations when manufacturing goods for them. This ensures compliance with industry standards and prevents legal issues and costly recalls. When your commodities are certified by top organizations like NABL, BIS, and ISO, you can establish the truthfulness and authenticity of your products and sell them with peace of mind.

Enhances Product Reliability

An important benefit of why manufacturers get the support of environmental testing for their products is reliability. When a skilled team of testers exposes materials to extreme temperatures, humidity, and mechanical stress, it reveals the overall functionality and durability. That allows you to work on them and rethink their manufacturing style. Environmental testing ensures that products can withstand harsh conditions without failure. This increases longevity and minimizes unexpected breakdowns.

Improves Safety and Performance

Environmental testing ensures that manufacturers and organizations improve the safety and performance of their products. When your materials undergo heavy stress, this gives a comprehensive detail of them before launching onto the market. IT testing is crucial in the fields of medicine, military, and industries, as well as many other applications. These sectors require powerful products or devices that can survive and work perfectly with severe consequences. 

Final Words

Today, the rapidly increasing competition in the market boosts the demand for manufacturing precise, powerful, and durable goods. Getting help from environmental testing gives you a competitive advantage and the knowledge you need to deliver high-quality goods. The different types of environment tests expose the hidden errors and malfunctions in your products. A respected team of testers has advanced technologies and testing labs. That ensures they perform the entire testing process efficiently.

Their advanced equipment in environmental testing includes climatic chambers, thermal shock chambers, vibration testers, salt spray chambers, UV aging testers, and humidity chambers. Performing environmental testing on your products allows you to create an item that is in line with the latest market demands. This may reveal scope for improvement in your interest. This ultimately saves you from tarnishing your image in the market due to low-performing materials. And you can sell your goods in the market without any worries. We hope this guide has helped you understand the essence of environmental testing and its many types in detail.

[purenonsens]

Gotta say, blacksmith x metal bfs are hilarious to me

[xxplastic-cubexx]

welcome back to my accidental newfound journey to redraw every frame from this movie i GUESS

[p1ctur3]

@octdl-lee

Random captive TDL au lore dump and some behind the scenes stuff since you asked so nicely :]

Dark in captivity

victim did use dark as a way to train and get the mercs and him used to the box

victim and agent (i would probably explore their dynamic in this au also, mitsi would haunt this narrative because yes)

some behind the scenes things

additional art

[xfreischutz]

hello store is open for ff14/witch hat atelier/tristamp/misc other merch. there is unfortunately no dragon age or overwatch at this time.

please allow up to 7 days for processing as i am working 44h/week at the day job and have no one else to help me

store will likely remain open until apr 1 (or earlier if I run out of stuff).

shipping to the US remains open, no shipping to the EU due to the gpsr laws, sorry ;;

the pricing is like this because i'd say most of the charms are b-grade.

thank u

[lorenzonuti]

Limbs testing.

[germanelectrodelead]

Cardiacarrythmia and chest pain 🫀⚡️

[writer-room]

Listen when people say they want Percy to go on a villain arc most times I see it as they want him to go dark, want him to start murdering, maiming, going full Luke, etc. And I support that. If anyone deserves to kill people it's this kid.

However, let us be realistic for a moment, because I quite like the other alternative. Villain arc Percy usually entails "he's finally had enough of the Gods bullshit & will do things his own way". Let us think on this. What would Percy most likely do in this situation? Would it really be murder right off the bat?

I think he'd be the pettiest, annoying little shit there is. And because one can't usually threaten the Gods in a way that truly matters, but they can make them sweat really hard.

This goes beyond ignoring their calls and leaving them on read. He refuses to give food offerings unless it's the nastiest shit known to man. Bribes the cyclops into hucking huge objects up Mount Olympus before they all scurry off. Finds the olive tree Athena gave to Athens, and while he wouldn't have the heart to destroy it, he'd for sure rip off a branch & mail it to her (Annabeth nearly had to put them in witness protection).

Eventually it gets to the point he has Nico on speed-dial and offers him a shit ton of fast food & a 'get out of Percy's quest bullshit free' pass if he could hop into the Underworld and yoink up some annoying spirits or dead monsters to piss off the Gods. When the Gods get pissed at him Percy just silently pulls out some safe-for-demigods phone like "hang on I wanna see how many happy meals I owe Nico for bringing Typhon back up". They know he is not bluffing.

Could the Gods counteract him? Yeah, sure, Hera gave him amnesia and it was like 90% effective for a while. However, he kind of went off the rails, everyone else went off the rails, and then they had even more Roman nonsense to deal with. If anything it both solved but also made even more problems. And a much angrier Percy. So, frankly, they're very confident it could work, but they're a little worried about what the aftermath would be.

Ares suggests just killing him. Poseidon takes offense to this. Artemis scoffs and says even Ares couldn't beat him. Everyone stops for a moment. The question is not asked verbally. But it is seen in the darting eyes and shifting seats.

Can they kill Percy Jackson?

Well, sure, they must be able to. He's a powerful kid, no doubt, with powerful allies, but they are Gods. Of course they can kill him. So that's not the real question, they wouldn't dare really entertain such a thing to ever confirm if it was true, but this is rather the layer of frosting hiding the real atrocity of a cake underneath it.

What will they lose trying to kill Percy Jackson?

What will remain standing in the face of some 18-year-old who lived one of the hardest knocks of life, loves so much it makes them sick, is so completely unaware of his own strength not even they know its full extent, and currently has absolutely zero fucks to give about the end of a reign longer than he will ever understand?

They decide to quietly shut the lid on that whole fiasco and let Percy do whatever he wants.

Unfortunately, they can't exactly ignore everyone else. And everyone else is who Percy cares about the most. So, think of it more like leaving a grenade in a locked box in the attic. Just hope and pray you've moved out before something gets curious and starts rummaging around up there.

[faxaway]

💗 your art style is like a warm homemade cookie 🍪

anon! my love! that may be among the kindest things I've ever been told. thank you!!!!

nines' cookies are warm and homemade, but complimenting his baking prowess any further would be dishonest. he did make them just for you, though. just pretend to chew

[maxpadelchampion]

There have been 11 races since Baku. This stat is genuinely and actually unreal.

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

AMF-2, 1971. An experimental safety car prototype built by American Machine & Foundry Inc in collaboration with AMC. The AMF 2 had airbags and automatic fire extinguishers as well as aluminium bumpers with thirty inches of travel. Rear visibility was by a periscope. The steel-bodied prototype weighed a whopping 5,791 lbs.

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Protein sequencing

“A Beckman-Coulter Porton LF3000G protein sequencer.” - via Wikimedia Commons

[lord-squiggletits]

I think the key component to my personal reading of post-Delphi Pharma is that he's trying to be a horrible person on purpose. Not "on purpose" in the way that people have free will to exercise their own choices, but in that Pharma's "mad doctor" persona is a performance he puts on to deliberately embrace how much everyone else hates him. Basically, if people already think you're a "bad Autobot" and a horrible doctor who just kills his patients for fun, why try to prove otherwise to people who have already made up their minds about you? Just fully embrace the fact that people see you as an asshole. Don't try to change their minds. Don't plead for their forgiveness or understanding. Just stop caring. If you're going to be remembered as a monster, you might as well be a memorable monster, and eke as much pleasure and hedonism as you can out of it before karma catches up to you and you inevitably crash and burn.

I mean, I guess you could just go the route of "Oh, Pharma was always a fucked up creepy guy and Delphi was just him taking the mask off," but I really don't like that interpretation because, for one, it feels really wrong to take a character like Pharma becoming evil under duress and going, "Oh well clearly he did the things he did because he was evil all along," as if somehow Pharma breaking under blackmail/torture/threat of horrible death was a sign of him having poor moral character. As opposed to, you know, suffering under the very real threat of horrible death for himself and everyone he cares about while being manipulated by a guy who specializes in psychological torture.

The second reason is that it just doesn't make sense to write Pharma as having been evil all along. I mean...

Occam's Razor says that the best argument is the one with the simplest explanation. Doesn't it make way more sense to take Pharma's appearances in flashbacks, his friendship with Ratchet, his stunning medical accomplishments, and the few we see of him speaking kindly/sympathetically (or in the least charitable interpretation, at least professionally) towards his patients and conclude "This guy was just a normal person, if exceptionally talented." Taking all of these flashback appearances at face value and assuming Pharma was being genuine/honest is a way simpler and more logical explanation than trying to argue that Pharma for the past 4 million years was just faking being a good doctor/person. I mean, it's possible within the realm of headcanon, but the fact is Pharma's appearances in the story are so brief that there simply wasn't room in the story for there to be some sort of secret conspiracy/hidden manipulation behind why Pharma acted the way he did in the past.

I just can't help but look at things like Pharma's friendship with Ratchet (himself a good person and usually a fine judge of character) and the fact that even post-Delphi, pretty much every single mention of Pharma comes with some mention of "He was a good doctor for most of his life" or "He was making major headways in research [before he started killing patients]" which implies that even the Autobots themselves see Pharma's villainy as a recent turn in his life compared to how for "most of his life" he "used to be" a good doctor.

And although Pharma doesn't know this, we as the readers (and even other characters like Rung) know about Aequitas technology and the fact that it actually works, so... if Pharma really was an unrepentant murderer, why couldn't he get through the forcefield too? The Aequitas forcefield doesn't require that a person be completely morally pure and free of wrongdoing or else how could Tyrest get through, just that they feel a sense of inner peace and lack feelings of guilt. Pharma has murdered and tortured people by this point, and put on quite a campy and theatrical show of how much he sees it as a fun game, so why then can he not get through?

It circles back to my headcanon at the start of this post that the "mad doctor" persona is just that-- a persona. Delphi/post-Delphi Pharma's laughing madman personality is just so far removed from every flashback we saw of him and everything we can infer based on how other people see/saw him before that, to me, the mad doctor act is (at least in large part, if not fully) a persona that Pharma puts on to put his villainy in the forefront.

To avoid an overly simplistic/ableist take, I don't think Tarn tortured Pharma into turning crazy. To me, it's more like the constant pressure of death by horrific torture, the feeling of martyrdom as Pharma kept secret that he was the only one standing between Delphi and annihilation, the physical isolation of Messatine as well as the emotional separation from Ratchet, being forced to violate his medical oaths (pretty much the only thing Pharma's entire life has been about), etc. All of that combined traumatized Pharma to the point that the only way he could avoid cracking was to just stop caring about all of it. Because at least then, even if he's still murdering patients to save Delphi from a group of sadistic freaks, Pharma doesn't have to feel guilty and sick about doing it. As opposed to the alternatives, which were probably either going off the deep end and killing himself to escape, or confessing to what he did and getting jailed for it.

In that light, Pharma becoming a mad doctor makes sense. It avoids the bad writing tropes of "oh this character who was good his entire life was actually just evil and really good at hiding it" as well as "oh he got tortured and went crazy that's why he's so random and silly and killing people, he's crazy" and instead frames Pharma's evil as something he was forced into, to the point where in order to avoid a full psychological breakdown and keep defending Delphi, he just had to stop caring about the sanctity of life or about what other people might think of him.

Then, of course, the actual Delphi episode happens, and Pharma's own lifelong best friend Ratchet basically spits in his face and sees him as nothing more than a crazy murderer who went rogue from being a good Autobot. Then Pharma gets his hands cut off and left to die on Messatine. At that point, Pharma has not only been mentally/emotionally broken into losing his feelings of compassion, he's received the message loud and clear: He is alone. Everyone hates him. Not even his own best friend likes him any more. No one even cared enough about him to check if he actually died or not. He will only ever be remembered as a doctor who went insane and killed his patients.

So in the light of 1. Having all of your redeeming qualities be squeezed out of you one by one for the sake of survival and 2. Having your reputation and all of your positive relationships be destroyed and 3. People only know/care about you as "that doctor who became evil and killed his patients" rather than the millions of years of good service that came before.

What else is there to do but internalize the fact that you'll forever be seen as a monster and a freak, and embrace it? People already see you as a murderer for that blackmail deal you did, so why not become an actual murderer and just start killing people on a whim? People already see you as an irredeemable monster who puts a stain on the Autobot name, so why beg for their forgiveness when you could just shun them back? You've already become a murderer, a traitor, and a horrible doctor, so what's a few more evil acts added to the pile? It's not like anyone will ever forgive you or love you ever again.

Why care? Why try to hold on to your principles of compassion, kindness, medical ethics, when an entire lifetime of being a good person did nothing to save you from blackmail and then abandonment? Why put yourself through the emotional agony of feeling lonely, guilty, miserable, when you could just... stop caring, and not hurt any more?

[arosetolivefor]

[lorenzonuti]

The Black Manta.

Now available for purchase on INPRNT

[tangerineasshole]

dave. whats the absolute goofiest thing you pulled at work?

(10 minutes later)

...In my defense, the health inspector decided that he was coming, and i was desperate.

H: Sir, you know you could've asked me first, right? I mean- Why on earth would you ask that virus for information on ANYTHING?

C'mon, it wasn't even that bad! just bein' goofy!

Do you know HOW much bribing that guy was? I had to eat plastic wrappers instead of food for a MONTH!