Vibration control system goes into action at VW
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Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Aug 28, 2001
M+P International has recently won a £280,000 project for the engineering and supply of an airbag electronics test system at Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, Germany
M+P International has recently won a £280,000 project for the engineering and supply of an airbag electronics test system at Volkswagen, Wolfsburg, Germany.
The test system is based on the M+P International VibControl software solution and on the Unholtz-Dickie Corp SA60-LS20 5,500 lbf/20 in long-stroke thruster.
Airbag electronics have to control more than 20 different ignition cycles for all the airbags and belt tighteners used in a Volkswagen car today.
In addition to generating crash pulses and controlling the horizontal shaker system, the VibControl solution will include a 32-channel transient recorder system with 1 MHz sampling rate per channel to continuously resolve the ignition voltage time trace during the crash test.
As in all the M+P International high-end vibration control and analysis solutions, Agilent VXIbus technology will serve as the hardware platform.
For the transient recorder a special VXI board supplied by Bustec Production, Shannon, Ireland will be used.
Bustec is one of the most advanced VXIbus equipment manufacturers for data acquisition solutions.
They also produce the new VXI embedded controller for the M+P International VibControl product family.
With the realisation of the airbag electronics test system, M+P International will continue its successful supply of environmental test systems to Volkswagen that started in 1986 when they provided the first vibration control system for the Volkswagen VW van plant in Hanover.
m+p international manufactures test and measurement systems for vibration control, data acquisition, signal analysis, process monitoring and emission testing.
With its VibControl product family, the company is a recognised leader in the field of vibration controller and analysis solutions for the environmental test laboratory.
M+P International has two wholly owned subsidiaries in Verona, NJ and Farnham, England along with representatives and agents world-wide.
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