Since 1954 AFFRI® has been producing hardness testers in which the forces are generated by load cells. Together with innovative components, they make up the AFFRI SYSTEM®. The power supply is indifferently mechanical, electromechanical, hydro-mechanical, and pneumatic mechanical.
AFFRI SYSTEM® has successfully overtaken the traditional philosophy of dead-weight loads, and elevating screws of the standard traditional hardness testers.
AFFRI SYSTEM® in its technological evolution is protected by the registered patents for many years.
An increase in the operative performances has been obtained with the use of controlled load cell in a closed-loop system, (Patent AFFRI N. 1175158).
However this improvement appears moderate if we compare it with the high qualitative and operative level reached by AFFRI SYSTEM®.
A further improvement in performance was achieved when AFFRI® automated the Rockwell and Brinell hardness tester: only one control button starts the process - without a break in phase of positioning, approach and execution of the test.
The fully automatic operation and the rapid speed in the whole test cycle, obtained by AFFRI SYSTEM®, remains unchanged ,regardless of the load cell version, due to the use of unprecedented incorporated technologies (patent pending).