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LabMaster features a user-friendly interface similar to Windows. This enables a quick start for testing tasks. All essential functions are readily accessible at a glance. In the background, there are many additional configuration options available.
Depending on the testing task and the complexity of the experimental setup, the display can be customized, and options can be shown or hidden. The protocol editor for displaying results can be individually configured.
What is possible with LabMaster?
The standard version of LabMaster encompasses nearly the entire range of functions.
Key basic functionalities at a glance:
Our optionally configurable Test Assistant helps users carry out their testing tasks. It guides them through the software's settings according to the defined work steps, from entering sample data to printing the protocol after the test is completed. This minimizes the possibility of user errors. The well-structured workflow ensures that all important settings are saved and can be reassigned later. Thus, even after changing the test setup, saved test parameters can be retrieved and tests with identical settings can be performed again.
With the test series, the testing process is documented and the use of necessary components is defined. If the user is satisfied with the test execution, it can be saved. It will be applied directly to the next test.
LabMaster offers software modules for five typical standardized testing tasks. Within each module, basic data, sample data, and results can be managed individually. For each measurement series, all test-relevant settings, such as testing speeds, switching points, and fracture detection, can be defined separately. Sample geometries for series can be entered before the test begins.
The results include standardized measurements, such as tensile strength, compressive strength, bending strength, yield strength, and elongation at break. To adapt to changes in standards, LabMaster offers a "Custom Results" function.
The five standard test modules of LabMaster are:
- Tensile Test
- Compression Test
- Bending Test
- Peel Test
- Torsion Test
The block program is designed for complex, freely definable testing procedures. Options include commands for conducting cyclic tests, relaxation and creep tests, fracture mechanics tests, or component testing.
No programming knowledge is required: commands are easily entered through menu windows and can be dragged and dropped into the correct order. By monitoring detailed termination criteria, the user maintains full control over the testing process at all times.
External devices can also be integrated into the testing program. For example, temperature and climate chambers or high-temperature furnaces can be controlled. It is also possible to use simple I/O signals as triggers.
Tolerances can be defined and monitored for all results. Testing conditions and parameters, such as cross-sectional area or fracture detection criteria, can be corrected afterwards using the recalculation function. This is particularly useful for determining and evaluating results.
E-moduli, for example, can be calculated using various mathematical models (regression, tangent, secant, etc.).
In the Protocol Editor, all data, such as results, basic data, and sample data, can be user-friendly placed and formatted. This allows for the creation of customized protocol layouts with the company logo to present the results.
The clear separation of the display into preview and editing windows gives the user full control over the appearance of the protocol.
What else is possible with LabMaster? - The Extension Modules
Various additional features are available as extension modules to meet specific customer requirements, allowing the end user to select the most suitable ones for their application.
The export of results and statistics in selected file formats, the saving of diagrams and the saving of real time data in a configurable ASCII file are included in the standard scope of LabMaster. In addition, an extended module for data import/export is available.
With the help of this additional function, data can be imported before a test is performed and exported after a test. This data includes, for example, all basic data, specimen data, results, tolerances, etc. Data import and export is possible for individual tests as well as for entire test series. Data is exchanged manually or automatically.
LabMaster can be connected via Windows System DSN to all databases for which an ODBC driver exists. As of version 2.6.0, it is also possible to exchange data directly with your own Firebird database.
With the aid of data export, data from component or material testing can be written to an existing quality assurance system or to a user-defined format. Target systems for data export can be the common quality management, laboratory information and management or customer-specific database systems.
With data import, specimen or test parameters can be imported and used for subsequent testing in LabMaster. The values of automatically measured specimens for serial testing can be assigned based on specimen information.
With the fracture mechanics extension module, static tests can be carried out on deeply cracked specimens. Depending on the behaviour of the material, it is divided into linear-elastic fracture mechanics and flow fracture mechanics. The corresponding test specifications and procedures are predefined as templates, which indeed might be modified. With this additional module the following standards can be mapped: ASTM E399, ASTM E1820, ISO 12135.
The Multi-Workplace System module extends the LabMaster software by functions for working in a server-client environment, thus enabling several users to access the database of test results stored in the network.
This module enables several workstations to access a database stored in the network. It is used, for example, when testing and evaluation are carried out at separate workstations not influencing the testing performance at the testing machine. Changes to data and settings are immediately available to each workstation. Unlike the single-user version, simultaneous access to system settings, global settings and measurement series is blocked.
The creation of user-defined results is a basic component of LabMaster. Using the function User Definition/Results up to 300 results can be created in each test module. Results that are calculated utilizing a formula, however, cannot be determined with this function. In this case, the formula editor provides the operator with a powerful tool. Specimen data, results and measurement channels serve as a database for the input of equations. The use of the formula editor is particularly recommended for changing tests and tests that do not conform to standards.
With the video recording module, video sequences of static or quasi static experiments can be recorded, stored and played back. The forces and strokes determined by the testing machine can be synchronously assigned to the video sequences. In this way, measured values can also be marked in the diagram later and the video image recorded at this time can be viewed. This function can be utilized for testing microfibers as well as to perform compression shear tests at solded parts of microelectronic circuit boards respectively. Excellently, that function can be employed for schools applying the demonstration mode.
For which test systems can LabMaster be used?
LabMaster is a universal test system for material testing, but can also be used for components and cyclic test sequences as well as creep tests. The software is suitable for all testing machines, from small load testing machines to testing machines for large loads. It is used for universal testing machines of the series inspekt solo, inspekt duo, inspekt blue, inspekt table and inspekt as well as for modernizations and special testing machines.
What are the system requirements?
LabMaster requires standard PCs (based on the current market with a modern operating system).
Requirements for the current version of LabMaster:
- Processor: Intel Core i5-12400 2.50GHz or equivalent
- Memory: 16 GB RAM, DDR4-3200
- Hard Drive:
- System Drive: 512GB SSD M.2
- Backup: 1TB HDD
- Network Card: 100/1000 Mbit
- Graphics Card: 1GB
- USB 2.0 or a free LAN port
- Operating System Requirement for LabMaster: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro or 11 Pro
Can old testing machines be equipped with LabMaster?
The LabMaster testing software is both upward and downward compatible. It works with the controllers of older testing machines (regardless of the manufacturer) and is always included in our retrofitting services. In this way, we not only contribute to sustainability but also create significant savings for you.
Can LabMaster be installed on multiple PCs?
LabMaster is delivered without a software dongle. Companies can install the software and the associated SQL databases on as many computers as they like and work with them. This saves time and costs associated with the procurement and management of license keys.
When is a software update necessary?
Hegewald & Peschke develops the testing software in-house and continuously optimizes it according to market trends and requirements. As a result, new software versions are regularly created and released. However, we believe a software update is only necessary if your needs require it. For example, this might be the case when the operating PC for the testing machine is switched to a new operating system. In such cases, our LabMaster testing software can be easily and conveniently updated. The update can be performed remotely or on-site. Software updates provide users not only with compatibility for new operating systems but also with new functionalities or improvements in the graphical layout. Hegewald & Peschke also ensures backward compatibility, allowing the user to work with either the familiar or the new layout. A current software version can be applied to an older controller as well.
Our service team is happy to provide advice in this regard.
Due to our open software concept, updates because of normative changes or paid prescriptions are not necessary. Our free application support is always available to assist you.
What is the pricing for updates?
The update price usually corresponds to a three-digit amount and actually depends on the scope of services. Extended software modules and peripherals to be taken into account have an influence on the costs.
What do I have to do if a new operating system is to be installed on the test PC?
Please contact our software service and have the serial number of your testing machine ready. In most cases a software update is necessary.
- You can reach our software service by phone +49 35242 445-333, software@hegewald-peschke.de
- You are also welcome to use our contact form.
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Hegewald & Peschke
Meß- und Prüftechnik GmbH
Am Gründchen 1
01683 Nossen
Phone: +49 35242 445-0
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E-Mail: info@hegewald-peschke.de
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