Passenger Cars & Commercial Vehicles

Vehicles must comply to national and international standards. Verification is complex, time-consuming, and expensive. At HBK, we are well aware of the test and measurement challenges throughout the product life cycle in this highly competitive market. Our first-time-right approach enables engineers to save time and money and launch their products as soon as possible. A dedicated testing solution for electric and hybrid drives helps them optimise efficiency and gain a competitive edge.

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Our powerful simulation and data analysis tools provide deep insights into the vehicle’s structural behaviour to validate the design or make changes early in the process. Measuring noise and vibration and taking action to reach target levels is an essential part of physical vehicle testing. In the field, rugged mobile data acquisition devices provide accurate and reliable results. Learn more about our comprehensive test and measurement toolbox for cars, vans, and trucks.

Key Areas of Application

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Hybrid and Electric Vehicles
Simulation and Virtual Testing
Vehicle Testing

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Hybrid and electric-powered vehicles (EV) are a rapidly growing market. New powertrains are being developed at a fast pace, requiring extensive testing and optimization both on component and system level. Testing also includes auxiliary systems such as air conditioning or infotainment that affect a vehicle’s overall electrical behaviour.

Apart from evaluating power and efficiency, determining noise and vibration from development through to production is crucial to ensuring only highest-quality products are brought to market.

Electric Power Testing (eDrive/EPT)

From component to sub-assembly and the entire vehicle: HBK provides a holistic solution for testing electrical systems and e-drives that helps you to better understand dependencies and where losses come from to optimise efficiency and performance.

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End-of-Line (EoL) acoustic performance of electric drives

The HBK acoustic quality analysis solution helps you identify noise sources and analyse the root cause of failures to eliminate them. This cost-effective system adapts to all test environments and helps you bring the best quality product to market.

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Battery testing / Vibration test using VTS shakers

EV batteries are subject to rigorous mechanical and electrical test standards. The versatile and powerful vibration test system of HBK is easy to set up and use, ensuring accurate results and consistency to help you validate an early product release.

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Simulation mimics a vehicle’s behaviour in the real world and under different load scenarios. Virtual tests run on digital twins enable users to evaluate each component which might be impossible with a physical prototype. And to gain a deeper understanding of how these components interoperate on sub-system and system level to make predictions about durability and efficiency. The aim is, of course, to validate or change the design at an early stage of development. Lowering the risk of failure saves time and money otherwise spent on physical testing.

Fatigue life simulation

The HBK simulation software allows you to make accurate durability and service life predictions at an early stage of development. It speeds up data analysis and helps you to reduce costs thanks to data sharing between different departments.

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Driving simulators

Experience your future vehicle performance today and bridge the gap between test and simulation with VI-Grade’s range of driving simulators, covering the complete design cycle from concept to sign-off.

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Much of vehicle development is being frontloaded to simulation. Yet real-world data are needed to validate and verify simulation models and optimise them. Only tests conducted on test benches/dynamometers and in the field provide real conditions of use. Results help engineers to better understand the final product and how all the subsystems work together. They can evaluate structural durability as well as noise and vibration characteristics to ensure the vehicle will meet the targets and satisfy customer expectations.

Mobile data acquisition / Road Load Data Acquisition (RLDA) and analysis

Mobile data acquisition is a cornerstone of vehicle evaluation. More specifically, RLDA measures a vehicle’s structural response to typical load cases on test tracks. HBK provides high-end mobile data acquisition solutions for field testing and RLDA.

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Durability testing

As one of the last steps before a prototype is released, structural durability testing in the lab covers the actual market needs. Characterise loads under real operating conditions and calculate the resulting cumulative fatigue damage with HBK tools.

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Structural dynamics

Understanding how structures behave when subjected to physical forces helps you optimise the design, monitor structural integrity, and maximise performance. HBK offers a range of highly efficient structural dynamics measurement and analysis tools.

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Vehicle NVH (in lab on dynos and on test track)

Ensuring the NVH performance of a vehicle is hugely challenging and requires expertise. At HBK, we have acted as the noise and vibration lab, supporting our customers with initial benchmarking, target setting, NVH troubleshooting and launch support.

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Field pass-by testing

Correlating exterior noise with sound sources measured on the vehicle, the HBK solution is used by component suppliers and vehicle OEM for pass-by noise, exterior noise, and noise emission testing according to ISO standards or UN/ECE regulations.

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Indoor pass-by testing and noise source analysis

HBK provides more than standard tools for field pass-by noise measurement in a controlled environment. For vehicle improvement, we help you identify and analyse the major contributions of exterior noise corresponding to specific sound sources.

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Moving source beamforming

Our software solution not only identifies sources of noise radiated from moving road vehicles. It generates a map of noise levels from each component to help you decide where design changes can made most effectively to reduce overall noise radiation.

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Our Customer Stories

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Serving a greener automotive industry

All vehicle components must contribute to meeting strict energy efficiency and CO₂ emission targets. A manufacturer of pumps for thermal engines used a complete HBK measurement solution to ensure compliance without compromising on product quality.

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Vehicle proving ground for the future

Mercedes-Benz runs a state-of-the-art proving ground in Brazil to test its trucks, buses and commercial vehicles. The company used HBK technology to successfully reduce the overall noise of its heavy-duty vehicles and meet its noise emission targets.

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Stellantis (Groupe PSA) leverages nCode DesignLife

Stellantis, one of the largest automotive companies in the world, aims to develop and produce ever safer and more environmentally friendly vehicles. Find out how HBK's world-class CAE-based fatigue simulation software helps them achieve this goal.

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Optimized testing of flexible exhaust components

BOA Group, a specialist in flex-joints for exhaust emission systems, standardized on HBK’s nCode GlyphWorks and DesignLife software to streamline road load data analysis and integrate CAE-based fatigue analysis for rapid evaluation of design alternatives.

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