Drop test

Drop tests are for simulate the situation where the user drops the product accidentally. Drop angle and height varies on those situations.

Drop test – drop and impact testing to ensure product durability

A drop test tells you whether your product will last in the real world. Even one impact can be enough – and it often only happens at the customer’s. Test before the risk turns into a cost.

Drop testing is a key part of ensuring product reliability. It simulates the impacts and drops that products encounter during transportation, handling and use. Toptester carries out testing in accredited laboratory conditions in accordance with international standards, producing reliable test data to support product development and certification.

By outsourcing testing to Toptester, you get documented and internationally acceptable test results quickly, typically within a few weeks, without investing in your own testing equipment. At the same time, testing supports product development, quality assurance and product lifecycle risk management.

Why is drop testing a critical part of product reliability?

Do you know how your product reacts to a drop? Can the structure withstand a sudden impact? Will electronics function normally after a drop?

Product development often focuses on the functionality of the product, but mechanical durability is easily overlooked. In reality, products are constantly exposed to shocks and drops during transportation, installation and use.

Drop testing provides measured data on the actual durability of the product and helps identify weaknesses before they appear in the field as complaints, warranty costs or delivery interruptions.

Drop testing can:

• verify the impact resistance of the structure
• identify critical weaknesses and fracture points
• ensure the functionality of components and connections
• reduce defects and complaints in the field
• support product development and certification

Simulation of drop tests in real operating and transportation conditions

Toptester carries out drop tests in accredited laboratory conditions using international standards and customer-specific test programs. Testing simulates real stress situations, such as drops, impacts and sudden accelerations that products encounter, for example during transport or handling.

These can be used to identify risk points in a product already during the product development phase, optimize structure and material choices and minimize costs arising from damage.

Real-time measurement in drop testing – what happens and why?

Traditionally, drop testing has been able to determine when a product fails. Advanced measurement methods can also identify the cause of the failure. With Toptester, drop testing can be combined with real-time measurement, which simultaneously monitors resistance, elongation and acceleration.

This allows the exact moment when a failure begins to develop and the causes leading to it to be identified. This provides product development with significantly deeper information than simply examining the final result.

Drop testing in the laboratory – a reliable testing environment and expert service

Drop tests are carried out in accredited laboratory conditions, which ensures the reliability, repeatability and international acceptability of the test results.

Toptester offers a comprehensive service that covers:

• test design and customization
• test coordination
• actual testing
• analysis and reporting

We help you choose the right test methods and build a test suite based on the product’s intended use and requirements.

Standards – drop testing

Test equipment and test methods in drop testing

In a real-world environment, a product is rarely exposed to just one load. Instead, shocks, repeated drops and various mechanical stresses often act simultaneously. Drop testing uses test methods and equipment that can simulate these situations in a controlled and reproducible manner in laboratory conditions.

Testing can include free drops from different heights and angles, repeated drop cycles, and controlled impact and acceleration tests that allow the load to be precisely targeted at desired points in the structure. The choice of these methods is always based on the intended use of the product and the type of stresses it is expected to encounter.

A single drop is often not enough to assess the true durability of a product. Often, it is repeated impacts or a combination of multiple stresses that reveal weaknesses that are not visible in a single test, but can lead to failure in later use.

Drop testing as part of comprehensive reliability testing

Drop testing is often part of a broader testing package, where it is combined with other reliability and environmental tests, such as vibration testing, temperature and humidity testing, IP and tightness testing, and packaging testing

By combining test methods, a comprehensive overall picture of the product’s behavior under real-world operating and transportation conditions is obtained.

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