At Meridian, we take quality seriously. Our ongoing commitment to Quality Assurance and Quality Control is what’s earned us ISO 9001:2015 certification. To test our components we use automated testing machines and sometimes even have to create custom machines from scratch when the product is one-of-a-kind. Curly cords need to be stretched and retracted hundreds of thousands of times without breaking, so that’s exactly what we during product trials. For some cords, if they don’t last 500,000 extensions/retraction cycles, it’s back to the drawing board. We’ll usually create a few different iterations of a coiled cable design, utilizing different materials so we can test the products simultaneously to see which perform most inline with our client’s design parameters. For one tricky medical application, we ended up creating 14 different prototypes to test which combination would meet a tough set of parameters.