Manitoba – Portage la Prairie – Portage La Prairie
Corporation
www.westest.ca
Manitoba
Portage la Prairie
Portage La Prairie
Corporation
active
Operating name: Westest
Western Canada Testing, (WESTEST) is a provider of physical testing services to the agricultural, automotive, transportation, construction, forestry, and mining industries. WESTEST staff can measure field data and use it to test components or whole machines in their field simulation lab. Some services are portable and can be performed on-site.
Areas of expertise include: Load and vibration simulation Noise and vibration control Sound analysis Stress measurement and analysis Load and fatigue testing Field data acquisition Standards and regulatory compliance testing Safe working load tests Design qualification and verification testing Wire rope testing Intermediate Bulk Container testing
WESTEST is the only test lab in Canada that specializes in IBC testing, and has established itself as the premier IBC test lab in North America. Manufacturers from across Canada and the USA use their services. More recently, customers from Brazil, the Phillippines, Korea, and Japan have sent their products for testing at WESTEST. Visitors from Turkey, Chile, and Mexico have toured their facility and contracted with them.
Interested individuals can call and request information brochures or videos on IBC testing. WESTEST welcomes strategic alliances with organizations that are mutually complementary.
Country of Ownership: Canada
Year Established: 1992
Exporting: Yes
Primary Industry (NAICS): 541690 - Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
Alternate Industries (NAICS): 541330 - Engineering Services
541380 - Testing Laboratories
Primary Business Activity: Services
Total Sales ($CDN): $200,000 to $499,999
Export Sales ($CDN): $100,000 to $199,999
Number of Employees: 11
Services:
Physical testing, Packaging testing - compliance, hazardous goods, dangerous goods, non-bulk, preshipment, Scientific and technical services, Noise - vibration control, Stress measurement - analysis, Force - vibration simulation, Wire rope testing, Mower testing, Eurocompliance
Products:
Agbus-organization-agencies, Agbus-special equipment and services, Iem-machine shops, Environmental products and services, Test program to help ensure that intermediate bulk containers (ibcs) are safe at home and abroad
Technology:
WESTEST is an industrial testing facility established to provide
manufacturers with advanced product development services.
WESTEST has specialized facilities to help solve engineering
problems in three primary areas: force and vibration simulation,
noise and vibration control, and stress measurement and analysis.
Various configurations of these services combine to provide: vibration and fatigue analysis, durability trials, sound and
noise level measurement, noise emission source determination,
machine health diagnostics, stress measurement and standards
testing.
Machine specimens and components up to 35,000 lbs (with an
additional 16,000 lbs pre-load) can be loaded and tested for
structural integrity.
Leading edge sound analysis technology allows for portable
assessment of noise characteristics in ambient noise
environments, determination of structure borne noise, and contour
mapping for sound intensity purposes.
WESTEST€™s stress measurement and analysis service can measure
strains and stress under applied loads through the use of brittle
coating and strain gauge application. Software is available to
provide for further analysis and fatigue prediction.
Projects range from specific problem solving tasks to complete
project management. WESTEST is experienced in working together
with partners to provide targeted engineering and physical
testing services.
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE LOAD SIMULATION LAB: 5,000 sq. ft. lab, including a 4 ft deep pit with 4 ft thick
solid concrete reaction mass, and a strong floor with a 2 ft
thick solid concrete reaction mass, both with modular grid
anchoring system, gantry crane spanning length of lab, 14 x 20 ft
wide overhead access door. Main building features 8,000 sq ft
shop space, conference room and administration offices.
HUMBOLDT: Main Building- 20,000 sq ft facility with fabrication shop, 1- 20
X 19 ft overhead access door, 1- 26 X 19 overhead access door,
4000 lbs capacity over-head crane, 30000 lbs capacity outdoor
drive on weigh scale, 28 X 19 ft environmental chamber, outdoor
destructive test fixture, conference room, administration
offices.
Satellite Lab- 2400 sq ft facility with 1- 14 X 16 ft access
door, and high velocity ventilation system.
QUALITY ASSURANCE: ISO 9002 Registered .
SPECIAL EQUIPMENT: Kiethly 500 P2 Modular Data Acquisition System
KDA C-500 I/O Data Collection Software
ASYST Software
Bruel - Kjaer WT9378 Mapping and Sound Power Software
Somat Lifest Fatigue Software
Bruel - Kjaer Dual Channel Real Time Frequency Analyzer Model
2144 with FFT Option 7651
Bruel - Kjaer Sound Intensity Probe 3548
Bruel - Kjaer Sound Intensity Microphone Pair 4181
Bruel - Kjaer Sound Intensity Calibrator Type 3541
MTS Systems Corporation Dual Channel Hydraulic Load Simulator -60
gpm hydraulic power supply
-two force generating linear motion hydraulic actuators capable
of 12,000 lbs force - two force generating linear motion
hydraulic actuators capable of 22,000 lbs force - two force
generating linear motion hydraulic actuators capable of 35,000
lbs force Ancillary monitoring and measuring equipment,
accelerometers, strain gauges, etc. Sony PC208A Digital Audio
Recorder, Remote Parameter Control Simulation Software system.
CERTIFICATIONS: Transport Canada and the United States Department of Transport
has approved WESTEST as a supplier of standards testing for the
bulk hazardous goods packaging industry.
WESTEST has a reciprocal agreement with the Swedish Machinery
Testing Institute to provide standards testing on their behalf
for 31 different EEC standards.
Chorney Harvey
Doepker Sharon
Ehrecke Kevin
Engele Jerry
Gullacher David
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