VI Technology, Inc. recently announced Arendar 2007, its enterprise-level test data management software package. New features include a drag-and-drop report designer with one-click Web publishing of interactive reports, a fully user-customizable Web Dashboard, secure data transfers through firewalls, and interactive data mining of swept parametric data.
Arendar 2007 also comes with a new application programming […]

Practicing Oil Analysis has an article on oil oxidation tests that includes tests for automotive oil. The article, The Lubricant’s Nemesis - Oxidation, explains how to develop and analyse an oxidation profile.

Ward’s Auto World is reporting that Ford Motor Co. is selling or dramatically reducing the size of its 3,400-acre (1,375-ha) Arizona Proving Ground in Yucca, AZ.
A Ford spokesman is quoted as saying, “We certainly want to consolidate vehicle testing in North America and have made decisions to sell or scale back at Arizona.”

The LXI Consortium announced that its next General Meeting will be held in Beijing, China, June 19-21, 2007, the first General Meeting to be held in Asia. The Consortium’s goal is to develop a solid LXI user base in the region to promote adoption of the test instrument technology and learn more about applications particular […]

More sensitive sensors and detectors based on semiconductor electronics could result from new findings by researchers from the United States, Norway and Russia. Their research has yielded a decisive step in identifying the origin of the universal “one-over-f” (1/f) noise phenomenon; “f” stands for “frequency.”
“One-over-f noise appears almost everywhere, from electronic devices and fatigue in […]

Standards Testing Laboratories (STL), can now perform dynamic cornering fatigue testing up wheels up to 28-inches in diameter and 20-inches wide. The company’s FM Machinery Division made this possible with an upgrade to one of its rotary fatigue test machines. STL is making this upgrade package available to other companies who wish to be […]

New sensors from PCB Piezotronics are well suited for multi-cycle, high repetition automotive and component test applications. The dynamic quartz force sensors are extremely rigid, allowing high repeatability and over range protection required for automotive and component testing.
The ICP and charge output sensors cost-effectively measure compression, tension and impacts encountered in life-cycle, durability and fatigue […]

Automotive Design Line has just published an article on hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation. It’s rather basic, but a good article for engineers just learning about the topic.

Ohio State University’s College of Engineering recently opened a new research center that will explore ergonomic issues in automotive manufacturing that impact worker safety as well as skyrocketing health care costs. The new Center for Occupational Heath in Automotive Manufacturing (COHAM) opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Wednesday, May 2 at at 1314 […]

The Mahle Test Systems’ TestLogiq(R) Mobile platform is a portable evaporative system dry leak tester that performs a vacuum-based test on a fuel system through the vehicle’s fuel-tank filler neck. The test, which does not require disassembly of the vehicle, can detect leaks as small as 0.010 inches. The test can be conducted without using […]