Our Technology
Testing & development
Development testing
At Dyson we work towards one idea: that everyday objects can be made to work better. It's an obsession. As a result, we are never completely satisfied, not even with our own machines, so we test and analyse them rigorously. For example, our microbiology lab grows and studies bacteria, mould and dust mites to discover better ways of removing them from your home.
Cleaning head testing
High speed visualisation
Microbiological testing
From idea to prototype
The results from development testing are used to improve the design of the next generation of Dyson machines. Thousands of prototypes are built to refine the improvements one at a time, starting with hand-made cardboard models. Later, complex selective laser sintering tools build fully functional prototypes for testing in our laboratories.
Initial prototype modelling
Rapid prototyping
Reliability testing
Finally, every cleaner is subjected to a battery of endurance tests to ensure that its as durable as a Dyson should be. At our test facility in Wiltshire, Dysons are pushed, pulled, dropped, frozen, baked and shaken. We also have five vacuum cleaner assault courses where the most demanding test of all human use puts machines through their paces, with 28,000 hours of punishment doled out every month.
Bin emptying mechanism
User reliability test
