Testing Viscosity Of A Product For Pharmaceutical Manufacturers With Brookfield Engineering

It's important to pharmaceutical manufacturers to predict how products will behave when consumers get them. Therefore, testing their viscosity is a practice performed by many industries before they package products. To make the testing more rapid and effective, manufacturers have turned to smaller containment vessels and the spindle that rotates inside of the chamber will then give a viscosity reading for that material.

The ability to predict how products are going to behave when consumers get them is very important, therefore testing them for viscosity is a practice used by many industries before they package the products and send them to consumers. To make testing more rapid and more effective in the laboratory, manufacturers have gone to smaller vessels to put the samples into. The spindle that rotates inside of the chamber that the sample is in will give you a viscosity reading for that material.

Viscosity is that property of liquids that tells you how much resistance they have to flowing; whether it is a cough syrup, an ointment, or whatever. The ability to test for viscosity is a very important practice by quality control throughout industries.

Devices like this instrument right here — called a rheometer — give the ability to test the resistance to flow at different shear rates. Shear rate means how fast you might try to apply something to your skin, for example. Viscosity testing is a very important practice throughout industry. The ability to test smaller sample sizes and to temperature control them very rapidly with this temperature control equipment has become a key practice within quality control laboratories.