The Oakland Business Review reports that Espec, a manufacturer of environmental test chambers based in West Michigan is opening a sales and service office in Novi, near Detroit.
Although the Hudsonville-based company already has a sales force to cover the Detroit area, they currently work from home. The new office will be the company’s first brick-and-mortar […]

Standards Testing Laboratories (STL), an independent testing facility for tires, wheels and related automotive components, has upgraded their capabilities for Belgian Block Testing, an original equipment manufacturer (OEM)-mandated specification. This test evaluates the shock and vibration experienced by a wheel traversing a cobblestone surface.
These test services, which have been part of the company’s portfolio […]

Imtech N.V. will be providing environmental test systems for the BMW research and innovation centre in Munich, including:

climate and wind test labs where tests relating to quality, emissions, performance and efficiency can be held under any simulated climate condition; and
refrigeration test systems including, the vapour generators, all electrical solutions and dehumidification technology.

A technical paper from Endevco addresses issues in measuring high shock levels. According to the website, the paper, “Problems in High-Shock Measurement,”
The biggest challenge [in making high-g shock measurements] has always been to pinpoint the source(s) of the problem. This paper discusses a major source of errors - the shock accelerometer, and suggests a practical […]

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 […]

These all arrived in my inbox this morning, so it seemed like a good opportunity to revive this blog…….Dan
Mentor Graphics, Agilent Partner on Auto Net Design and Test Tools
Mentor Graphics will license certain products in the Mentor Graphics Volcano product line to Agilent Technologies. The Agilent LIN Tester, derived from Mentor’s Volcano LIN Spector product, […]

The Endevco website has a tip on properly mounting reference transducers. It notes:
The Reference transducer often is mounted directly to the shaker armature in tests where the mounting adapter is not reactive to the shaker output. This armature is usually heavy enough that the Reference transducer can weigh anything less than a pound or two […]

Endevco has just published a short app note on how to place a reference transducer on a shaker table. It starts out:
The correct mounting for the Control or Reference transducer seems to be more art than science to a great many shaker lab personnel. There are a multitude of factors to consider in conducting accurate […]

TUV SUD America, a testing and certification services recently acquired EST Testing Solutions, an environmental and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) testing company specializing in providing services to the automotive and furniture industries.
For more information, visit the TUV website or the EST website.

The Model 3711 is a high sensitivity, MEMS DC (steady state) response accelerometer designed expressly for automotive and off-highway testing. It is gas damped, and provides micro g resolution and 10,000 g shock survivability. Several full-scale acceleration ranges are available, from 3 to 200 g, with a frequency response from DC to 1,500 Hz […]