Lab benches are the prime equipment for product development and even manufacturing, bar none.

Classification of lab benches.

The subject of servo valves was explained earlier, and there are many variables of servo valves that need to be adjusted during the production process. Therefore, there is an interactive process here, so exactly the production process of servo valves is a debugging process, so the servo valve manufacturing test bench may be more suitable for debugging bench. The reason why this is important is that there is a corresponding test bench. The so-called test bench is more of a fully automated concept, which is essentially an interactive process.

So, firstly, it is important to know whether to build a test bench or a debugging bench? At least to know which one is of primary importance?

Of course, according to the current situation, the average manufacturer cannot fully determine the test models, items and test conditions that they wish to use for R&D and manufacturing; the test range is dynamically adjusted and changing. Therefore, instead of worrying about test benches or commissioning benches, we will now combine the two to make them more applicable.

If we follow this categorisation, it is interesting to note that the early test benches abroad were basically commissioning benches, and the later planned test benches are basically fully automated. The reason is actually quite simple. The later planned platforms are basically used for manufacturing. Model, test items, test conditions are clear, the newly developed valves in the design of the basic consideration of production efficiency, the cancellation of the interactive settings. I think this is the general trend.

Test bench software

Test bench software needs to address the control of the test bench itself and the realisation of test items.

Current test benches usually consider making a database of test models, items, test conditions and performance indicators. Manufacturers can maintain the database to add new models and change test conditions and maintain performance criteria.