Keystone Compliance Cuts Ribbon on New Environmental Lab

State-of-the-art facility designed for functionality and customer comfort

NEW CASTLE, PA – January 4, 2011 – Keystone Compliance, a regulatory compliance test lab, is pleased to announce the completion of its environmental test laboratory. The environmental lab features both climatics and dynamics testing capabilities, which complement the company’s existing EMC/EMI/RF and product safety testing capabilities. The environmental lab is a 4,000 square foot section of the company’s new 20,000 square foot headquarters. The lab offers customers a well-lit, climate controlled clean environment including a large control room with sound-deadening insulation.

Environmental Lab Manager, Scott Maxwell, has overseen the construction and acquisition of the test equipment. Maxwell has over 20 years of environmental laboratory experience and has used his experience visting numerous other labs to develop Keystone Compliance’s lab with nuances that set it apart. “The environmental lab was designed to test customer equipment of all sizes in a comfortable office-like environment,” said Maxwell. “Customers are going to appreciate our knowledge and capabilities while enjoying the engineer-friendly working conditions.”

Keystone Compliance’s climatics testing capabilities include humidity, icing and freezing rain, immersion, ingress protection, salt-fog, solar radiation, temperature, thermal shock and wind & rain testing. The equipment recently purchased and installed includes:

• One walk-in environmental chamber that has temperature and humidity. Inside dimensions are 12’ wide by 15’ deep by 10’ tall with a 9’ tall by 8’ wide door.
• One walk-in environmental chamber that can reach limits of -70 to +100°C. Inside dimensions are 5’ wide by 7’ deep by 7’10” tall. The chamber is cooled with 30 hp compressors for fast temperature transitions.
• Six reach-in environmental chambers, five of which have humidity capability.
• Two salt fog chambers; one roughly 5’ x 3’ x 4’; the other approximately 8’ x 4’ x 4’.
• Wind driven rain machine with a wind turbine capable of wind speeds up to 160 mph.
• Drip pan as required for MIL-STD-810 Drip Testing.
• All necessary IP Coding Equipment including a large dust chamber.

Keystone Compliance’s dynamics testing capabilities include drop, loose cargo, shock and vibration testing. The equipment recently purchased and installed includes:

• One brand new large-size electrodynamic shaker which is a 13,200 lbf shaker with 3” maximum displacement. It includes a unibase with a hydrostatic slip table with journal bearings (specifically for testing tall racks in the horizontal directions).
• One medium size electrodynamic shaker which is an LDS 4,000 lbf shaker with 2” maximum displacement. It includes a unibase and hydrostatic slip table.
• AGREE Chamber for combined temperature/vibration environments. Chamber may be used in both the vertical or slip table orientations.
• A medium size dynamic shock machine, that is capable of thousands of G’s on payloads up to 250 pounds.
• One mechanical shaker with a table size of approximately 8’ x 4’. This shaker is used primarily to simulate loose cargo transport (required by Mil-Std-810 and referenced in many other specifications).
• All vibration and shock capabilities are augmented through Spectral Dynamics Jaguar controllers. Capabilities include sine, random, sine on random, swept sine on random, random on random, resonance tracking, classical shock, SRS shock, transient capture, and transient playback capabilities with these controllers.

About Keystone Compliance:
Keystone Compliance is a regulatory compliance testing laboratory that assists manufacturers with regulatory compliance from a product’s concept to its introduction to the market. The lab is conveniently located between Pittsburgh and Cleveland in New Castle, PA. The Company specializes in assisting manufacturers and engineers in meeting worldwide regulatory compliance in the areas of EMC, EMI, environmental and product safety testing. Keystone Compliance’s EMC/EMI lab includes two anechoic/ferrite lined three-meter test chambers as well as three other semi-anechoic chambers. The environmental lab includes two electrodynamic shakers, two walk-in temperature/humidity chambers, a number of reach-in temperature/humidity chambers and a variety of other environmental test equipment.