Anthony Best Dynamics (ABD) has announced it is now offering a full range of kinematics and compliance (K&C) testing machines for the automotive industry, becoming only one of a few companies in the world to do so.
From the four wheel station suspension parameter measurement machine (SPMM) to the company's bump steer rig, customers are offered a choice of five K & C machines to suit a range of budgets for suspension and steering measurement applications across a wide range of vehicles including cars, trucks and off-road recreational vehicles. The company said its range of K & C Machines met industry requirements to reduce the time from concept to manufacturing a new vehicle with increased use of computer analysis and prediction techniques. "The successful SPMM forms the basis of the range and the four other machines are derivatives of this system, utilising software and hardware components that have been well-proven on the SPMM," ABD said.
According to details supplied by the company, the SPMM has a four-wheel station design, enabling two axles to be measured simultaneously and providing a fast turnaround for producing a full data set for a vehicle.
The SPMM is electro-mechanically operated, fully automated and computer controlled, thereby making it capable of completing a full suite of suspension and steering measurements in hours rather than days.
ABD also announced it was offering a simplified version of the SPMM with two-wheel stations. It can be upgraded to the four-wheel station SPMM and offers advantages in terms of lower investment costs and reduced floor space requirements. Next in the range is ABD's two-wheel station kinematics machine, which is designed to apply only vertical forces for kinematics measurements on vehicles.
Filling the gap between the bump steer rig and the two-wheel station kinematics machine is ABD's new Axle parameter measurement machine (APMM) which offers a lower cost alternative by testing only one axle of a vehicle at a time while providing much of the data that can be measured by the SPMM.
