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Home » Authors » Gordon Splete

Gordon Splete

Gordon Splete is a global product manager at Cincinnati Test Systems. For 25 years he has partnered with CTS customers providing technical leak test solutions for all industries and leak testing techniques (dunk, pressure decay, flow, and trace gas applications). Contact him at GSplete@cincinnati-test.com.

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QTY July 2021 Back2Basics: Leak Test 101 feature. Source: Getty Images
Aerospace | Back 2 Basics

Leak Test 101: The Basics Rule, No Matter How Much Technology Evolves

These best practices are relevant whether the right leak test for your application is pressure/vacuum decay, mass flow, or tracer gas.
Gordon Splete
July 15, 2021
15 Comments
Times change, technologies change, but the fundamentals of leak testing remain the same – the reliability and repeatability of your test results depend on how well you understand and compensate for testing variables.
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NDT Leak Testing

Supply, Demand and Cost: Don’t Let That Helium Just Drift Away at the End of a Leak Test

How can you make the most of this increasingly precious commodity for your critical quality assurance needs?
Jeff McBee Gordon Splete
August 5, 2020
36 Comments

Helium is in short supply and its cost is rising. Global sources may even run dry by the end of the century. And yet, it remains the dominant choice for trace-gas-based leak-testing on the production line. How can you make the most of this increasingly precious commodity for your critical quality assurance needs?


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Is Your Sealed Device Leak Testing Method All Wet?

Testing with air or gas offers a more reliable and nondestructive alternative.
Gordon Splete
June 9, 2020
5 Comments

From e-vehicles to consumer electronics and implantable medical devices, standards and expectations for the quality and reliability of sealed devices and components continue to rise. This puts the burden on manufacturers to employ methods of leak testing that are objective, reliable and repeatable.


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