Controls Group- WIZARD Auto SMARTline Automatic Control Console
WIZARD Auto is CONTROLS new standard automatic Quality Control system for compression and flexural testing and includes many new features and enhancements to improve the user-friendliness, efficiency, operator comfort and energy savings.
QC testing performance has just taken a step change improvement with CONTROLS abandoning manual test control and now features automatic closed-loop PID control of loading-rate using VFD inverter-technology control of the high specification AC motor.
Wizard Auto automatically and accurately performs tests at the correct test speed, ensuring compliance to Standards and with no effect due to operator variables.
Mainly dedicated to routine failure tests (compression, flexure and indirect tensile), WIZARD Auto is the perfect solution to ensure total certainty of testing accuracy and strict conformity to international Standards.In fact being an automatic system it allows:
- Reduced opportunities for operator errors: improving accuracy of results and repeatability.
- Easy-to-use: even for operators with limited expertise.
- Conforming to Standards: the machine automatically performs the test at correct test speed. Conformance to Standards can be easily proven.
- High performance: high speed pump closes the daylight above the specimen at the fasted speed allowing a very high throughput of tests.
- Operator comfort: due to the significant noise reduction.
- Energy saving: with 50% reduction in energy consumption.
WIZARD Auto is also available in a stand-alone configuration providing a cost-effective way to retrofit any make of compression testers fitted with old Bourdon gauges or unreliable electronic readout unit and power pumps with manual flow control. Our SMARTline Control Consoles will transform any old testing system into one that is automatic and fitted with the latest technology.
QC testing performance has just taken a step change improvement with CONTROLS abandoning manual test control and now features automatic closed-loop PID control of loading-rate using VFD inverter-technology control of the high specification AC motor.
WIZARD Auto automatically and accurately performs tests at the correct test speed, ensuring compliance to Standards and with no effect due to operator variables.
Standards:
The following standards refer to the execution of the testing procedures (eg load rate, load application, accuracy, etc.) as the mechanical and physical requirements.
EN 12390-4
Specification for compression testing machine
EN 12390-5
Flexural strength of test specimens
EN 12390-6
Tensile splitting strength of test specimens
EN 1338
Concrete paving blocks
EN 1339
Concrete paving flags
EN 1340
Concrete kerb units
EN 196-1
Determination of cement strength
EN 772-1
Determination of compressive strength of masonry units (blocks)
ASTM C39
Compressive strength of cylindrical concrete specimens
ASTM C78
Flexural strength of concrete. Third point loading
ASTM C293
Flexural strength of concrete. Center point loading
ASTM C496
Splitting tensile test of cylindrical concrete specimens
AASHTO T22
Compressive strength of cylindrical concrete specimens