# Durability Test Fixtures

> Custom fixtures that hold a complex molded part through tens of thousands of force cycles in an environmental chamber, without damage.

- Customer: Tier-1 automotive supplier
- Industry: Automotive
- Service: Automation Engineering
- Capabilities: Fixtures & Tooling, Mechanical Design, Prototyping, Testing & Validation, Documentation & Sourcing

## Results at a glance

- **< 3 weeks** PO to delivery, multiple fixtures
- **10,000s** force cycles across temperature extremes

## The challenge

- A new customer-required durability test: controlled force at several points, tens of thousands of times
- Run inside an environmental chamber cycling between temperature extremes
- A highly organic injection-molded shape that could not be cosmetically or functionally damaged

## What APTUS did

- Fixture concept and proof-of-concept testing
- All design work and documentation for the fixture and actuation mechanism
- Developed and sourced custom-molded contact components

## Results

- Multiple fixtures delivered in under 3 weeks from PO
- Customer met its own customer-imposed deadline

Source: https://www.aptusdesignworks.com/work/durability-test-fixtures