Maximizing ROI in Vehicle Safety Testing

Vehicle safety testing is a critical component of automotive safety and development. It is a step you cannot skip over, and it is a step within which many other steps are contained. Ensuring your tests are of the highest caliber is critical, as otherwise, you risk losing your reputation, profits, and business.

Luckily, with the right impact sensors to help you improve your design, you can rest assured that your reputation and finances are in good hands. The only problem is, how do you find good sensors that will not break the bank?

Sadly, even the best testing systems today often require continuous recalibration and constant replacement. That means even if the systems are dependable, they come with so much upfront investment that you are liable to drown in the costs. How can you overcome this issue and maximize ROI in your testing?

Let us look.

Vehicle Safety Testing Goals and Obligations

Automobile manufacturers have striven for decades to improve vehicle safety through impact testing. It has gone from being a valuable tool to one with significant regulatory control and data that no manufacturer can live without, and the same goes for test engineers. The goal of any test is to get the most significant amount of data with the most sensitive equipment in the easiest setting and the shortest amount of time.

If that sounds like a tall order, it is because it is. Yet the potential benefits are enormous. Versatile, comprehensive, and data-rich tests accomplish a variety of goals at once:

• Maximizing your safety ratings and, therefore, your reputation;
• Ensuring engineers have every tool they need for testing;
• Attracting the most talented individuals to work at your company; and
• Advancing your product and corporate profile.

While the goals are impressive, they only contribute to your bottom line when met. Unfortunately, this is easier said than done, given impact systems' high upfront investment costs.

Incomplete Data from Current Impact Systems

When it comes to crash testing, the challenges are many indeed. For instance:

Difficulty of Positioning

Other systems grant great insight but in too limited an area. This is an issue since the surfaces on which you need to collect data are myriad. For instance, you need information on specific anatomical locations of your test dummy, such as the face, head, neck, chest, and back. If you cannot collect enough specific and differentiated data, you are hampered in your efforts to paint a complete picture.

The same goes for various safety systems, including belts, chairs, airbags, and headrests. Without complete pressure data from all these places, you cannot know what is happening during the impact scenario.

Lack of Depth

Even if you get a sound system, it may not provide the depth of data you need. Though many crash testing and measurement sensor systems on the market today are standardized and highly accurate, they may simply not give you enough information, leading you to need another one in addition to the one you already have.

XSENSOR can help by bringing you another layer of data for deeper insights for a relatively small investment upfront and during the set-up process.

Other challenges include:

• Inconsistent results;
• Poor reputation from inaccurate results;
• High upfront investment and short obsolescence;
• Additional expensive testing is needed;
• Problems attracting the right talent; and
• Difficulty integrating hardware and software.

Overcoming Impact System Challenges

You can overcome these challenges by adding XSENSOR's HS Impact system to your testing equipment fleet. It addresses all the above problems and more, with benefits that include:

• High-resolution impact pressure data from interior vehicle surfaces.
• Similarly, quality data from multiple areas across ATDs during crash tests.
• Incredible resolution of up to 5 mm and thousands of frames per second.
• Thousands of additional sensing points allow you to capture peak pressures during impact scenarios with formerly unprecedented precision.
• Thin and comfortable sensors that conform to the surfaces they are meant to measure.
• A durable data logger that mounts easily to crash sleds or inside vehicles.
• The ability to run endlessly repeatable tests with minimal hassle.
• Sensors are available in various sizes and pressure ranges to match the surfaces requiring testing.
• Paired hardware and software that transmit accurate data from one to the other without wires and with incredible computing power.
• Ready to use out of the box, with no need of frequent recalibration.
• The ability to isolate issues with ease.
• Simple design prototyping and improvement.
• Enhanced injury predictions and better reputation.

Delivering accurate, high-resolution data cell-by-cell, XSENSOR's gold-standard safety and impact technologies help you ensure the best possible results with minimal downtime. Because systems remain precise and dependable over time and can be used for many different applications, you can say goodbye to the constant investment in other systems that have your process.

XSENSOR's Gold-Standard Vehicle Safety and Impact Solutions

XSENSOR Technology's High-Speed (HS) Impact system (now part of an IIHS protocol) is the game-changing, industry-leading crash test system you have been waiting for. Our pressure sensor-based technology is available on dummies, interior surfaces, and seatbelts, giving you an award-winning picture of what is going on inside the car during an impact scenario.

Major automotive companies now use our systems worldwide, helping them visualize safety for front and rear occupants more comprehensively than ever before. As safety standards evolve and more refined, the High-Speed (HS) Impact system is the best way to ensure that your engineers never miss a detail.

Are you ready to learn more about reducing upfront investment while maximizing ROI on vehicle safety testing? We are ready to help, so contact XSENSOR today.