Siemens Simcenter Solution for Automotive Durability Testing

The evolution of the transportation industry deeply impacts durability testing processes. Manufacturers introduce multiple vehicle variants, with lightweight designs. At the same time, consumers’ demand for durable products remains high. Durability testing teams suffer from an increased workload under time pressure.

Rely on our end-to-end durability testing solution to streamline your entire testing process. Simcenter uniquely integrates rugged and reliable data acquisition hardware with comprehensive processing and analysis software features. Our solution covers every step of a typical test campaign, from channel setup and measurements, to validation, consolidation, analysis, and reporting. With Simcenter, execute your entire test campaign in less time, with increased confidence, and fewer errors than ever.

Simcenter durability testing integrates a full set of software and hardware features for a complete end-to-end solution. Read more about these features below.

Accelerated Life Testing

Minimize the time and money spent on validating your product’s durability performance based on field tests. Our accelerated life testing solution helps design shorter and damage-equivalent test schedules for validation on single and multi-axis durability test rigs.

Load & Fatigue Analysis

Accelerate the delivery of critical durability insights when preparing for test rig campaigns or reliable simulations. To speed up time-consuming tasks such as load data consolidation, accurate rainflow counting, and experimental fatigue analysis, our load and fatigue analysis solution integrates instant visualization tools with interactive or automated analysis, performant processing, and active reporting.

Optimized Test Schedules

Solve the riddle of mapping your product’s real usage to a condensed durability test schedule. Our solution lets you define tailored test schedules by synthesizing customer-correlated loading targets. It derives the optimal mix of test track sections to emulate the roads of the target market.

Road Load Data Acquisition (RLDA)

Rely on a vast amount of top-quality data. Precision and realism of load data collected on proving grounds or public roads are essential for both virtual and physical product validation and verification. Our end-to-end road load data acquisition solution seamlessly integrates test instrumentation, setup, acquisition, validation, and reporting to accelerate the delivery of high-quality data.

Simcenter SCADAS

Get the testing job done right the first time - in the lab, on the track, or in the field. The range of Simcenter SCADAS hardware includes handheld solutions, compact and portable mobile units, autonomous smart recorders and high-channel-count laboratory data acquisition systems. The flexibility, performance, and precision of Simcenter SCADAS hardware makes it an excellent choice for a wide range of multi-physics measurement applications. 

Supporting a large variety of analog and digital transducers, any Simcenter SCADAS hardware is optimally tuned for acoustic, vibration and durability engineering, and is seamlessly integrated with Simcenter Testlab for accelerated test setup and correctly formatted results. It represents a secure investment that can easily be extended to the scale of your measurement requirements. 

We made a decision ten to fifteen years ago to standardize our durability process. We didn’t want to have different technical solutions on every site. We wanted to have solutions that would be global.

Bruno Seufert, Senior Manager: Chassis Durability and Vehicle Load Dat