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MWS Quality Laboratory
Understanding our wire is used in precision and demanding products by our customers in various industries, the quality of our wire is essential. Being able to measure and assure that quality is consistent is the reason MWS maintains the wire industry’s largest and most capable quality assurance laboratories. Here MWS is able to test not only to industry standards, like NEMA MW 1000 or ASTM, but also to customer specific quality criteria that goes above and beyond. We are constantly investing into the equipment, methods and expertise in our laboratory to make sure we are in lockstep with our customer’s expanding demand for excellence. The ownership of the quality of the wire we ship is a cornerstone of our business.
Testing Capabilities Include:
- Dimensional Analysis - Contact and non-contact laser micrometer analysis, and cross-section optical measurements for concentricity, thickness, and corner radius measurements.
- Mechanical Properties - Stress/strain analysis, tensile, yield, break strength values.
- Electrical Properties - DC resistance, dielectric strength, capacitance, impedance, continuity of insulation, completeness of insulation cure, and TCR (temperature coefficient of resistance) measurements.
- Thermal Properties - Thermoplastic flow, heat shock, insulation adherence, thermal endurance and solderability of insulations per NEMA MW 1000.
- Material Analysis - Base metal chemical analysis accurate to 1 ppm. Insulated material analysis is performed using infrared spectroscopy.
- Special Testing - MWS Wire can even custom build test equipment for your unique needs.