Using a Texture Analyser with your phone/tablet
Our Connect range of Texture Analysers provide the latest step forward in improving your texture analysis experience. A new specification take us yet another step further ahead in the field of texture analysis and product property characterisation.
This new range of instruments will provide many additional and beneficial features that will stretch the specification of our instruments further beyond the current capabilities of our competitors’ Texture Analysers.
Users will now have multiple options to operate their Texture Analyser:
Using your phone, tablet or laptop via a Web Browser Interface: If your instrument is connected to your Ethernet, this could be your preferred simple way to operate a Texture Analyser. You will be able to set up and run tests from a PC or mobile device of your choosing, whether this is a phone or tablet, as the Browser Interface is non-specific to the mobile operating system. Test data can be downloaded and saved to your network directly from this interface. Multiple Texture Analysers can also be setup and controlled by one device.
Using a Touchscreen: This allows a user to operate the Texture Analyser in a simple ‘stand-alone mode’. It provides a rapid and simple means of setting up and performing tests and controlling the TA. It can be used to view basic results (including a summary test curve after each test). Test files can be stored within the instrument and uploaded to Exponent Connect or a USB data stick when convenient.
Using Software: This is the most feature-rich texture analysis option available for your every need and now has the ability to capture test data at 2000 points per second (and at variable rates throughout a test). This higher acquisition rate (2000pps) detects up to four times as many force changes per second as the existing rate (500pps) and so it is very well-suited to applications involving high rate fracture, such as crispiness, or high speed events, such as in the measurement of adhesives or brittle samples.
The instruments will now provide more ‘connectivity’ possibilities – a technical feature that is becoming an expectation of electronics products. Owners of multiple instruments will have the ability to network all of their Texture Analysers to set them up and collect data remotely via Ethernet.
Standard engineering calculations have now also been built into the software for quick calculation of specific moduli, stresses, strains, strengths and energies which are particularly suited to materials testing applications.
An upgrade path from your existing instrument to the new Connect specification is possible to protect the initial capital investment of your original texture analyser purchase. Find out more
We hope you’ll get connected for more texture analysis innovation you will love!
