PWFT GmbH specialises in services and products for the measurement and testing technology of consumer and industrial goods.
The young company develops testing methods for product features that meet customer requirements. It implements these in test benches and measuring devices that it has constructed itself. The customer can directly implement the customised devices built by PWFT in their own development or quality assurance. Alternatively, PWFT offers the testing of product features as a service and ensures independent quality control, which can be confirmed with a test certificate. PWFT also has its own developed and partly patented testing devices. The focus in the consumer goods sector is on testing the cutting ability and edge retention of razor blades and household knives. For industrial products the focus is on testing the tribological behaviour and service life of rolling-element bearings under various loads and load collectives. Both mechanical and electrical design as well as software development are carried out in-house. With its competence profile, PWFT covers the entire development of mechatronic products.
Close contact with application-oriented research institutions ensures that the latest findings from scientific research are translated into services and products. In cooperation with the Institute of Manufacturing an Tooling Technologies (iWFT) of the Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln gGmbH (University of Applied Sciences), numerous student projects are supervised by the PWFT. The PWFT offers an innovative and practice-oriented environment in which young students can apply their scientific working methods.
The PWFT has established a quality management system according to DIN ISO 9001:2015 and is certified accordingly.
Product tests and measurements have diverse and usually very specific requirements. These are based on the functions and performance characteristics of the products, their area of application and their use. Especially in the consumer goods sector tests are required that go beyond the quality assurance of a manufacturing process and are oriented towards the operational behaviour of users. PWFT has specialised in developing test methods for consumer goods that focus on the user's perception. To this end, PWFT analyses the use of the product and develops customised test methods and devices that meet the identified requirements. PWFT always seeks intensive contact with its customers. Development in line with the customers wishes requires close cooperation. With a fact-oriented view and knowledge of the current state of science and technology PWFT ensures the necessary independence. This is a prerequisite for unbiased customer advice and transparent and objective product testing, especially in the consumer goods sector.
While developing practical solutions, PWFT consciously follows a benefit-oriented way of thinking and acting. This philosophy is followed by all activities from the in-house development of complete testing systems to the in-process testing of a manufacturing client. The aim is to test and quantify the functions and performance characteristics of products and to transfer the obtained findings to the operational behaviour. In this way, PWFT serves the consumer with a transparent statement about product performance and the producer with important information for maintaining manufacturing quality and further developing his products.
