Bob Donohue has been with ZwickRoell for 29 years holding various positions in sales and applications engineering with a focus on automated testing systems. Bob has a B.S. in Systems Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy.

Bob will be speaking about:

Polymer Testing Automation

It’s no secret that there is an ongoing and increasing drive to automate tasks ranging from daily life to industrial processes. The polymer testing lab is no different and automation advances are ongoing at a rapid pace.

This presentation will briefly describe the background and benefits of bringing automation into the lab. These benefits include increased throughput, accuracy, data security, and cost savings.

The second part of the presentation is an eye-opening look at the myriad possibilities to increase the level of automation in your lab. This can range from specimen preparation to dimensional measurement, handling, disposal, and data processing for physical properties testing such as tensile, flex, impact, hardness, and more.

In summary we can show the steps, from incremental to large that can leverage automation in bringing efficiency to the modern polymer lab.