For over 35 years, ADMET has been helping companies solve their material testing challenges. Beginning with the development of software and controller technology for older testing machines, the company subsequently expanded its capabilities to building high feature testing systems and offering full system retrofits.
Richard Gedney, CEO and founder of ADMET, graduated from Northeastern University in Boston in 1986 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. By 1988, he had graduated from MIT with a masters degree in mechanical engineering and by 1989 he had formed Advanced Machine Technology, later shortened to ADMET.
His thesis and focus in those early years was “Precision Machine Design and Digital Control Theory.” To complete his master’s degree, Rich developed a PC/DOS based materials testing system for retrofitting a Baldwin Universal Testing Machine. This was the niche that Rich identified in 1989 — building software and controllers for material testing equipment manufacturers and resellers.
Over the next 8 to 9 years, ADMET built an enviable reputation in this core software and controller niche and also in the wider market opportunity of retrofit/upgrade packages for a large range of electromechanical and servohydraulic materials testing machines, regardless of age or machine type. The engineering culture that exists within the company today was built in those early days, solving a plethora of engineering problems in the mechanical testing and measurement systems world.
By 1998, it was time to translate that deep engineering expertise and launch a complete line of products and systems. In 1999, the original eXpert 5600 system was launched and over the next decade ADMET continued to invest in its product family, launching many product ranges covering tension, compression, flexure and peel/adhesion tests. It has expanded aggressively into the end user market, growing way beyond its original OEM market, and now sells to over a dozen sectors including automotive, aerospace, biomedical, construction, plastics, metals, test labs, and university sectors as well as major government agencies. Customers include Lawrence Livermore National Lab, GE, DuPont, Boeing, US Steel, John Deere, Bechtel, Medtronic, and Harvard Medical School. ADMET customers are located in over 48 countries.
Today, the business is still anchored around the original 5 principles:
- Ease of Use — Every ADMET system will be predictably easy to use
- Configured to your needs – We will diagnose your requirements to deliver the most appropriate system
- Competitively Priced – We will offer the best value in terms of functionality and performance in the industry.
- Customer Centric – Our focus with every customer will be to improve performance.
- Accuracy – Our robust systems will deliver consistent accuracy enabling customers to conduct comprehensive, repeatable tests to ASTM or ISO standards.
ADMET’s Diagnostic Sales Approach
ADMET Sales Engineers are trained to establish relevancy and credibility and guide customers through value-driven business decisions. Our sales approach is a consultative process where we mutually work with customers to diagnose their needs by having open, honest, and straight-forward conversations.
Sales Engineering at ADMET requires thorough diagnosis. We will be asking detailed questions about your testing application including the types of tests you are looking to run, whether you are following any ASTM/ISO/EN test methods, and the calculations and material properties you are looking to measure and report at the end of the tests. In addition, we will ask for information on the required force capacities and the test specimens such as their material, geometry, and dimensions. This information will then be assessed to recommend the most suitable test system or systems, load cells, grips, fixtures, and accessories such as environmental chambers and baths.
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A Note from Nicholas Gatto, Executive Vice President
Thank you for your interest in ADMET Universal Testing Systems. ADMET continuously reviews and updates our product offering to best meet the needs of our customers. Although we may not always be able to help, we pride ourselves in our unique ability to provide accurate, competitively priced, easy to use custom systems. I am always interested in possible product collaboration or new product development, if you would like to reach out to me directly, I can be contacted here.
-Nick
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