Automotive Solutions:
Instron is partnering with key automotive customers to solve critical testing challenges in areas such as:
- Lightweighting of ground vehicle structures without compromising crash safety
- Vehicle electrification and battery development, demanding new test standards
- Increasing efficiency from tires without sacrificing passenger safety and longevity
- Increasingly demanding test laboratory safety standards
- Multi-material and joining techniques
- Increasing use of thermoplastics in demanding environments
- Ensuring performance of active components
Aerospace Solutions:
Instron is partnering with key aerospace customers to solve critical testing challenges in areas such as:
- Extensive use of composite structures for performance and comfort
- Increasing application of additive manufactured parts, replacing complex components
- Bonded components resulting in fewer mechanical joints
- Engine efficiency and higher operating temperatures for reduced emissions
- Reduced variability between labs and test method management
- Increased traceability and data pedigree
Biomedical Solutions:
Instron partners with the world's largest biomedical companies to characterize biomaterials and devices relating to:
- Highly regulated environments focused on security and traceability (IQOC, CFR 21.11)
- Very low forces to test smaller and custom-made devices
- Simulating physiological conditions and clinical applications
- Additive manufacturing and innovative biomaterials
Electronics Solutions:
Instron partners with the world's leading consumer electronic companies to addresses challenges such as:
- Miniaturized batteries for smart consumer products
- Innovative displays that flex, fold, and bend
- Increasing touch and tactility capabilities
- High-density packaging increasing portability
Materials Solutions:
Instron is partnering with the world's largest material manufacturers to address challenges in:
- Multi-material development and performance
- Automated testing to save time and remove variability
- Characterization of novel materials produced by additive manufacturing
- Development of sustainable materials
- Characterization of materials in extreme environments
- QC testing moving out of the lab and closer to production lines
- Increasingly demanding test laboratory safety standards
