Faucet Testing Equipment.

Overview

Faucet testing verifies that sanitary tapware — the single, combination and mixer taps used on basins, sinks and showers — stays watertight, durable and reliable across a realistic service life. A tap is operated thousands of times and held under constant line pressure, so its seals and mechanism must keep performing long after installation.

For a manufacturer, demonstrating this performance is both a quality benchmark and, in many markets, a requirement for placing tapware on the market. Faucet testing equipment reproduces the operating cycles and water pressures a tap will see in service, in a controlled and repeatable way.

What Faucet Testing Covers

The main checks group around durability and watertightness under pressure:

• Mechanical endurance — the tap or mixing mechanism is cycled open and closed for a large number of operations to confirm seals and moving parts keep working after prolonged use.
• Leak-tightness and pressure resistance — the body, joints and closure are pressurised and held to confirm there is no leakage and that the tap withstands sustained line pressure without failure.

Related Standards

Sanitary tapware is assessed against the European tapware standards: EN 200 covers single and combination taps, while EN 817 covers mechanical mixer taps. Both set requirements for endurance, leak-tightness and pressure resistance, so the test equipment is configured to the values the relevant standard defines.

Equipment & Configuration

Faucet testing is carried out on dedicated rigs configured to the tap type and the cycle counts and pressures it must meet:

• Endurance rigs — actuate the tap or mixer through its full range for the required number of cycles, often on multiple samples at once.
• Leak-and-pressure benches — apply controlled static pressure and monitor for leakage at seals and joints.

ULMEKA Faucet Testing Equipment

ULMEKA Mechatronics designs and manufactures endurance rigs and leak-and-pressure benches for sanitary tapware, configured to the cycle counts and pressures each standard and tap type requires. The equipment below covers this category; for a specific testing need, the requirements are confirmed at the proposal stage.