Rugged Testing

Validate your product's ability to perform in very harsh environments to ensure you deliver rugged and reliable products to any market.

Helping you validate the hardiness and performance of your products to extreme climatic and dynamic conditions ensuring it maintains all functionality that is critical to usability and performance.

Helping you ensure the hardiness and performance of your products to extreme climatic and dynamic conditions.

Although it was developed by the United States military, MIL-STD-810 is a test methodology that is used by many manufacturers now, regardless of whether they plan to sell to the U.S. Department of Defense. MIL-STD-810G allows for tailoring an equipment’s environmental design and test limits to the conditions that it will experience, also known as ruggedizing a product.

Eurofins E&E is a global leader in the providing rugged, industrial, MIL-STD testing for commercial and military-grade applications. We evaluate your products and systems to extreme environmental conditions including NEMA, IP Code, and military standards in our Environmental Simulation Laboratory helping you bring product ruggedized products to market.

Why Eurofins E&E North America?

Eurofins E&E’s product reliability experts can customize rugged test programs from the ground up according to the requirements of NEMA, IP and military standards such as MIL-S-901, MIL-STD-461, and MIL-STD-167-1. MET also provides full turnkey in-house solutions for Rugged testing, Benchmark testing, Competitive and Failure Analysis.

Eurofins E&E has over 30 years of Mil-Spec testing experience and the ability to test to any mission profile on both coasts to help you ensure that your product meets rigid military standards such as MIL-S-901D, MIL-STD-461F, and MIL-STD-167-1.

Eurofins E&E's testing is accredited by A2LA, NVLAP, and ISTA and is Defense Logistics Agency-approved to perform testing of fiber optic components. Eurofins E&E is also accredited for RTCA/DO avionics testing, as well as other FAA, NASA, and IEC standards.

Our Rugged testing capabilities include:

Transit Drop Test

• Used to determine the structural and functional integrity of the materiel to a transit drop in its transit or combination case.

Blowing Rain Test

• The effectiveness of protective covers, cases, and seals in preventing the penetration of water into the material.
• The capability of the material to satisfy its performance requirements during and after exposure to water.
• Any physical deterioration of the material caused by the rain.
• The effectiveness of any water removal system.
• The effectiveness of protection offered to a packaged material.

Vibration Test

• Address most of the life cycle vibrations likely to be experienced by the materiel as well as verify that material will function in and withstand the vibration exposures of a life cycle.

Humidity Test

• Used to determine the resistance of material to the effects of a warm, humid atmosphere as well as surface effects, changes in material properties, condensation and free water.

Low Temperature Test

• Used to obtain data to help evaluate effects of low temperature conditions on material safety, integrity, and performance.

High Temperature Exposure Test

• Used to obtain data to help evaluate effects of high temperature conditions on material safety, integrity, and performance.

Sand and Dust Resistance Test

• Dust: This test is performed to help evaluate the ability of material to resist the effects of dust that may obstruct openings, penetrate into cracks, crevices, bearings, and joints, and to evaluate the effectiveness of filters.
• Sand: This test is performed to help evaluate the ability of material to be stored and operated in blowing sand conditions without degrading performance, effectiveness, reliability, and maintainability due to abrasion (erosion) or clogging effects of large, sharp-edged particles.

Altitude Test

• Used to evaluate materiel likely to be stored and/or operated at high ground elevation sites, transported or operated in pressurized or unpressurized areas of aircraft, exposed to a rapid or explosive decompression, or carried externally on aircraft.

Temperature Shock Test

• Used to determine if material can withstand sudden changes in the temperature of the surrounding atmosphere without physical damage or deterioration in performance.

If you have an immediate need for MIL-STD-810,Ingress Protection, MIL-STD-461, or HALT testing Contact us for help in creating a rugged product test plan, or submit a request for testing.

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