Automotive

Vibratec’s automotive department is a recognized player in the European automotive industry (OEMs and suppliers), including manufacturers of trucks and motorized two-wheelers.

Our vision is to provide our customers with a fast and relevant service, based on state-of-the-art tools in acoustics, vibration and mechanical reliability. Our mission is to deliver results and solutions that are tailored to our clients’ needs and offer high added value.

40 years of partnership

Vibratec’s expertise is based on almost 40 years of partnerships with major players in the automotive industry, in both testing and numerical simulation. Our core competencies in mechanical engineering are vibrations and their consequences: noise, mechanical strength and fatigue, non-linear phenomena.

Diagnostics and solutions
Vehicle tuning & component design
Finite element modeling and model recalibration
Advanced experimental techniques: our technical excellence to meet your needs within the time and cost constraints of your programs.

Innovative solutions

Vibratec offers a range of means and innovative solutions to solve your NVH, fatigue and service life problems for all automotive applications:

Body, chassis, doors
Powertrains, including electric motors
Suspensions, braking, steering, running gears
Engine accessories, interior and exterior equipment

Expertise in all areas of automotive NVH

Vibratec has developed skills in all areas of automotive NVH, with particular expertise in

Experimental characterization of forces and solid vibration sources
Measurement of equipment forces in real-life environments
Design of dedicated test benches when direct force measurement is not feasible.

Our Commitments

Fast service

Customized solutions with high added value

Innovative solutions

Working Together

On SOW, fixed-price service
A pre-sales-through-production project team
Type: component or system design & optimization, mechanical bench & tool design, overall dynamics, physical consolidation (from quality to quantity), multi-physics integration, testing
Position: pre-project, development, industrialization, operation

Typical package :
- Expertise: in-house, direct access to experts, 1 or 2 deliverables
- Response calculation: 3 deliverables (pre-process, solver, post-process) depending on physics and complexity
- Design: 2 deliverables (preliminary & detailed designs)
- Signal processing: 1 deliverable (test exploitation)
- Calculation/measurement recalibration: 2 deliverables (MAC-type correlation, digital demonstrator update)
- Diagnostic Tests: 2 deliverables (BTR / ATR)
- Industrial or Component test campaign: 4 deliverables (preliminary bench design / detailed bench design / test results & operation / feedback)
Hard/software supply, HPC & Lab center, acquisition system / instrumentation
Supply of recommendations and industrial solutions