APG’s HU Hammer Union Pressure Transducer Drop Test

APG is committed to producing quality products. Take a look at the drop test that we put APG’s HU Hammer Union through. In this video, APG engineers share the extreme testing process behind their hammer union pressure transducers. To ensure durability in the toughest oilfield environments, the team subjected the product to real-world abuse — including repeated 30-foot drops — and redesigned it until it could withstand the harshest handling without failure.

Transcript:

“When these oil rigs get taken down, you know they take them down quick, and they’re not real tender with some of the equipment. So, to replicate some of the extreme situations that we became aware of, we actually took our hammer union up on top of the roof. It’s about a 30-foot distance, and we threw it down into a docking bay multiple times.

The first couple of times we did it, we had failures. But we kept redesigning, making it a little bit more robust, until it didn’t break anymore.”