Last week, Toyota officially opened its new R&D and safety testing facility near Ann Arbor, MI. Toyota invested nearly $200 million in the 700-acre complex, which includes 350,000 square-feet of engineering and design space and a 180,000-square-foot crash test facility.
Here’s what the local newspapers have to say about the new facility:

R&D center boosts Toyota in […]

NI has recently released three app notes that many automotive engineers will find useful:

Automated Automotive Body Inspection System for Poka-Yoke Production Lines Using NI IMAQ Vision
Developing a Strain Measurement Solution Using NI LabVIEW Software and Data Acquisition Hardware
Developing a Hardware-in-the-Loop, High-Speed Simulation and Data Acquisition System for ECU Testing with the NI PXI Platform and […]

The Pickering 40-265 provides 6 channels of strain gauge simulation with high simulation accuracy and performance. Each channel provides a full bridge circuit with very fine resistance control of better than 2 milliohm in one bridge arm, allowing the 40-265 to emulate the operation of a strain gauge bridge circuit. The bridge can be excited […]

Agilent Technologies has expanded its U1071A line of Acqiris two-channel, high-speed PCI digitizers. The product line now includes new models that offer additional functionality that can be combined with the series’ large memory capacity of up to 256 MSamples, making the digitizers ideal for use in a wider range of applications, including automated […]

Spectris plc, Roylston, UK, has signed an agreement to acquire the LDS Test & Measurement business from SPX Corporation. The purchase consideration of US$102 million, on a debt and cash-free basis, will be met from existing cash and bank facilities and is subject to routine balance sheet adjustments.
LDS manufactures integrated vibration test and […]