Strategic Partners
By complementing our S&V expertise with the technology of our partners, we can help Customers at any level of maturity from performing "NVH sensitive" design studies to specialized noise and vibration troubleshooting projects to development of standardized tests.
Applied Technology Inc. (www.appliedinc.com)
ATI offers CAD/CAE engineering services for product design and analysis. Sound Answers and ATI have identified an opportunity to provide integrated solutions for "NVH Sensitive Design" that can include:
* Root cause identification and design recommendation
* Detailed design and virtual validation
* Prototype and physical test confirmation
Brüel & Kjær (www.bksv.com)
Brüel & Kjær is a world-leader manufacturer of instrumentation and software for noise and vibration. By partnering with Sound Answers, Brüel & Kjær will be able to provide its Customers access to S&V expertise for a variety of exploratory sound and vibration consulting. Sound Answers occupies office space at the new, state-of-the-art ARC facility with its world class laboratories.
Application Research Center (ARC)
* 4WD NVH chassis dynamometer
* Sound Transmission Loss (STL) suite
* Sound quality and jury listening room
* Hemi-anechoic chamber with bedplate
* Brüel & Kjær equipped lab including transducers, 100s of channels of Pulse acquisition, microphone arrays, and a vehicle simulator lab
TUV SUD (www.tuv-sud.com)
TUV SUD offers testing services including vibration and shock, BSR, thermal, EMC, fluids and environmental durability. TUV SUD also offers a variety of refurbished test equipment and custom test fixtures. With A2LA accreditation for acoustics and structural testing, TUV SUD and Sound Answers can provide standardized S&V testing capabilities. Recent joint projects include:
* Objective BSR assessment of a rear cargo shade
* S&V spec interpretation, and testing of an electronic accelerator pedal
* SQ testing of an automatic shifter
* Modal analysis of DC-powered seat adjuster