Anyone who has samples tested for cleanliness relies on reliable testing and precise determination and representation of the particles contained. With our Particle Browser, we offer you software for follow-up checks and revisions to verify analysis results and to identify and correct possible measurement errors.
Customers have repeatedly asked us whether we can determine the residual moisture in coolers. We have now equipped our laboratory with a device for analyzing residual moisture and offer this test as standard. We have already successfully carried out the first tests on behalf of customers
Our particle scanner for quick and easy cleanliness checks according to VDA-19.1 and ISO-16232 has received an update. The new hardware is even more compact and delivers razor-sharp images of unwanted residual dirt particles with a resolution of 5 µm/pixel.
A particular challenge is the correct analysis of microparticles inside medical glass ampoules. When the vials are opened, glass breakage often occurs, which can get into the analysis and falsify the result. To solve the problem, our team has developed a new process to non-destructively detect foreign particles in glass ampoules.
In October 2019, the Association of German Engineers (VDI) published a new guideline on the purity of medical devices (VDI 2083 Sheet 21:2019-10). In this article we inform customers and interested parties about essential aspects of the new directive.
It is often surprising for our customers when we find hard mineral particles on their components during technical cleanliness analysis. Customers ask: "How can that be? We didn't find anything in our own cleanliness tests." The contamination of hard minerals is so important, because these particles have an abrasive effect and thus massively damage mechanical systems such as gears and motors.
The determination of the technical cleanliness according to VDA-19.1 or ISO-16232 is now an integral part of quality control and error analysis - because the cleanliness of components is decisive for the quality and error-free function of the product. In addition to particles, filmic contamination poses a problem, as the following example from quality assurance in the manufacture of electric drive systems shows.
In order to answer the question of the whereabouts of microplastic particles from tire abrasion, new analysis methods are urgently needed to reliably identify and count these particles. We conducted a pilot study to test the possibilities of automated SEM-EDX analysis in quantifying tire abrasion in environmental samples.
The revised quality standard ISO-16232 “Road vehicles-Cleanliness of components of fluid circuits” was published in December 2018. This international standard for the cleanliness analysis of automotive parts corresponds to the regulations of VDA 19.1, in the development of which RJL Micro & Analytic GmbH played a key role.
