Durability Testing Seminar 2nd August 2016
2 August 2016
Durability is strongly related to brand image and thus a crucial selling point. Customers simply expect their cars to last at least for 300,000 kilometers. But today’s customers have more on their wish list than a durable vehicle. They expect a wide variety of vehicle types, a higher quality, preferably at a lower price. Also the ecological trend entails new challenges. Seemingly conflicting engineering challenges need to be reconciled to manufacture the cars that will determine the world’s future mobility. Addressing new target markets meets the customer’s need of a wide variety of vehicle types, including new vehicle concepts such as hybrid and electric vehicles. More vehicle variants put more pressure on durability engineering departments as they need to design and validate more load-cases in less time, without compromising on accuracy.
How to engineer for a bumpy road and at the same time for a brand-new highway? How to continue to reduce weight, avoid overdesign and compensate for new materials? Reliable structural durability test scenarios require accurate and dependable load assessment in real-life operating conditions and on proving grounds. Do you want to have insights into how to gain a precise understanding of loads that products will undergo during anticipated lifetime, capture customer usage and define customer profiles? How can you accelerate durability testing on proving grounds? How to maximize testing productivity for road load data acquisition? What methods translate road measurements to a test bench? All this has been a part of the discussion topics.
We invited you for an informative and educational day covering the durability testing process and teaching best practices for road load data acquisition & processing. This seminar provided insights in how to design against fatigue, how to capture customer usage and how to set realistic targets and test procedures within the vehicle development. Best practices were shared by real application examples.
