We have developed a new 90 degree V-Blender with angular velocity variation from 15 to 90 rpm. I would like to know on how to check for the reliability of this machine. Thanks in advance
For the reliability testing or performance evaluation of your setup, you will have to identify the variables in your system. Secondly also identify external factors that might influence one or many of these (first) variables or parameters.
When you have a machine like the V-Blender, you can think of -
1) Evaluating the speed stability without load and with known load.
1.1) Start at lowest RPM (15 as you have stated) and see that your speed remains constant over period of time (15 mins to 30 mins). Any variation should be noted with shorter interval and do some basic statistical analysis to determine deviation or error rate.
1.2) Then check at the higher limit of 90 rpm for the same time duration and apply the same analysis.
2) Then test the performance with a known load and ensure how your speed (rpm) varies or remains constant for a given load for different speed (RPM) settings or -
2.1) Different load for the same speed settings.
3) While carrying out these tests you would come across some external or other factors that the affect the desired performance of your system.
I hope this is a small piece of information sufficient for your to start the evaluation.