MB Dynamics Inc.
Behind all of MB Dynamics’ product lines is a wealth of proven global industry experience in automotive, aerospace & defense, industrial, and in-laboratory R&D, spanning private, academic and government sectors. MB Technology includes excitation and motion test hardware, control system and data acquisition software, instrumentation, fixtures, etc. to complete noise and vibration testing jobs. Test Processes, whether MB developed or customer augmented, include application-specific test procedures, templates, test plans and guidelines for helping test and quality control end-users to fulfill their test jobs and requirements.
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Cleveland, OH 44146
United States
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Modal Exciters & Amplifiers
Experimental modal analysis, or modal testing, is a process for physically obtaining a math model of a structure’s dynamic properties. Modal tests identify a structure’s modal properties: natural frequencies, mode shapes, mass, stiffness and damping. Modal test results help troubleshoot resonant excitation from operating forces, validate and verify finite element models, predict the benefits of structural modifications, support design verification, and understand structural responses due to complex loading conditions.
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Non-Hydraulic Steering Module Test Simulator
SMTS
The Steering Module Test Simulator (SMTS) from MB Dynamics is a non-hydraulic turnkey lab test system, offering accurate, reliable and repeatable in-laboratory simulations of driver, road & vehicle inputs acting on a steering system, and their associated effects on steering system performance and annoying noises. Supports troubleshooting, identification, diagnosis, and resolution of root causes of unwanted noise and other performance issues common to EPS, EPHS, EPAS, MDPS, and HPS steering systems.
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Air Bearing Vibration Exciter
CAL25HF
The Model CAL25HF offers transverse performance over traditional flexural-based calibration exciters, with operation over an operating bandwidth of 3 Hz to 20 kHz. It is available as either a stand-alone unit, or as part of a larger automated calibration test system.
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Brake Hydraulic Pressure and Electric Parking Brake Systems Test Bench
Model BHP/EPB™
The new Model BHP/EPB™ Brake Hydraulic Pressure (BHP) and Electric Parking Brake (EPB) Systems test bench from MB Dynamics accurately measures and controls the hydraulic pressure and EPB power levels applied to brake calipers during automotive buzz, squeak and rattle (BSR) testing, as well as brake durability, stability, functional or performance testing. Varied brake pressures are applied according to timing diagrams, as well as automated or manually program-controlled repeat cycles, as required to assess brake caliper/rotor assembly noise, useful service life, and other critical performance metrics.
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Electrodynamic Shaker Systems
Electrodynamic shaker systems and amplifiers from MB Dynamics help to support a wide range of general-purpose vibration test requirements. The electrodynamic shaker systems are offered in a variety of force ranges, from 100N (25 lbf) to 22kN (5,000 lbf). The innovative design of MB Dynamics PM-Series electrodynamic shakers incorporates permanent magnet technology and the voice coil principle to create vibration. These heavy-duty electrodynamic shakers feature a robust design for maximum reliability, with end-users reporting a useful service life of 10, 25 or even 40 years! The shakers come in five unique sizes, with peak sine force ratings of 100 N, 200 N, 500 N, 1000 N and 2000 N; or, 25 lbf, 50 lbf, 100 lbf, 250 lbf and 500 lbf. The MB Dynamics C40HP electrodynamic shaker outputs 22 kN or 5,000 lbf peak. The C40HP is a part of the legacy C-Series of shakers, which have served as the foundation for today’s modern electrodynamic vibration test equipment industry.
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Energizer BLACK Vibration Exciter for Buzz, Squeak & Rattle (BSR) Testing
Energizer BLACK Vibration Exciter
The Energizer BLACK Series is part of a family of extremely quiet vibration exciters. The Series is ideally suited for the support of subjective and objective BSR evaluations according to industry test specifications, such as GMW14011, GM7293TP, BMW PR311-2 or PSA “Specification bruit parasites”, as well as several Hyundai Engineering Standards. With availability in four unique models and sizes, the Energizer Series is expressly designed to support such evaluations, while reducing the risks of measurement uncertainty caused by unwanted vibration exciter noise occurring within the BSR test environment.
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Energizer BLUE Vibration Exciter for Buzz, Squeak & Rattle (BSR) Testing
Energizer Blue Vibration Exciter
The Energizer BLUE Series is part of a family of extremely quiet vibration exciters. The Series is ideally suited for the support of subjective and objective BSR evaluations according to industry test specifications, such as GMW14011, GM7293TP, BMW PR311-2 or PSA “Specification bruit parasites”, as well as several Hyundai Engineering Standards. With availability in four unique models and sizes, the Energizer Series is expressly designed to support such evaluations, while reducing the risks of measurement uncertainty caused by unwanted vibration exciter noise occurring within the BSR test environment.
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Energizer RED Vibration Exciter for Buzz, Squeak & Rattle (BSR) Testing
Energizer Red Vibration Exciter
The Energizer RED Series is part of a family of extremely quiet vibration exciters. The Series is ideally suited for the support of subjective and objective BSR evaluations according to industry test specifications, such as GMW14011, GM7293TP, BMW PR311-2 or PSA “Specification bruit parasites”, as well as several Hyundai Engineering Standards. With availability in four unique models and sizes, the Energizer Series is expressly designed to support such evaluations, while reducing the risks of measurement uncertainty caused by unwanted vibration exciter noise occurring within the BSR test environment.
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Energizer SILVER Vibration Exciter for Buzz, Squeak & Rattle (BSR) Testing
Energizer SILVER
The Energizer SILVER Series is part of a family of extremely quiet vibration exciters. The Series is ideally suited for the support of subjective and objective BSR evaluations according to industry test specifications, such as GMW14011, GM7293TP, BMW PR311-2 or PSA “Specification bruit parasites”, as well as several Hyundai Engineering Standards. With availability in four unique models and sizes, the Energizer Series is expressly designed to support such evaluations, while reducing the risks of measurement uncertainty caused by unwanted vibration exciter noise occurring within the BSR test environment.
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Full Vehicle Test Systems
MB Dynamics delivers effective, low-cost, and quiet excitation technology to root source S&Rs in vehicles, trimmed bodies, subsystems and components, including 4 poster test rigs. MB’s patented Direct Body Excitation (DBE) Road Simulator and Dynamic Vehicle Torquer (DVT) are advanced vehicle road simulation technologies which help detect vehicle S&Rs during development, launch, and production.
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Squeak And Rattle Test Solutions
Annoying noises like squeaks and rattles have become a significant quality issue for customers of passenger vehicles, light & heavy commercial vehicles, increasingly off-road vehicles, and even airplane applications. These unwanted sounds are a problem for numerous reasons including customer dissatisfaction, sizeable warranty expense, and the overlying difficulty to diagnose and fix. MB Dynamics offers an innovative line of Buzz, Squeak & Rattle (BSR) or Squeak and Rattle (S&R) Test Solutions, focused on helping to eliminate annoying noises through prevention, design verification testing, and production verification testing, before the product reaches the customer. -
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Squeak & Rattle Sub-System And Component Testing
At MB Dynamics, we’re proud to provide clients in a wide range of industries with quiet, custom turnkey component testing systems for combined squeak & rattle testing as well as durability testing of different components and subsystems (in 1 to 6 DOF). Test items can be excited in one or more axes to understand and characterize the physics and root causes of BSRs. Real-world, on-road vibration conditions are multi-axis simultaneous – vertical, fore-aft or longitudinal, lateral, roll, pitch, and yaw – 6 degrees of freedom or 6 DOF. Affordability drives decisions to find BSRs by exciting in one or two – fewer than 6 DOF. That has been a driving force for MB – be effective at finding BSRs with a lesser number of shakers (DOFs) and thus reduce the test equipment cost of finding BSRs. Vertical-only can be effective; sequential vertical then fore-aft then lateral is one step closer to real-world; creating vibration in four or five axes of response simultaneously is even closer; and full 6 DOF systems that are quiet come closest to duplicating in the lab the on-road conditions. MB offers all these possibilities to meet trade-offs of budget, test time, road replication, and BSR detection effectiveness.
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Steering Module Test Systems
Steering test systems for quiet evaluation of rattle, NVH & performance issues – non-hydraulic. The MB Dynamics Steering Module Test Simulator family of technologies (SMTS) is an assembly of components and software designed to facilitate the quiet testing, development, troubleshooting, and auditing of a variety of steering gear and steering column assemblies — collectively referred to here as steering modules (including components).
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Steering Test Equipment: Software & Hardware
MB Dynamics delivers steering test equipment to help fulfill a myriad of application test requirements, or jobs-to-be-done. The steering test equipment consists of software for multi-test-head, synchronized MIMO closed-loop control and data acquisition; rotary servo motors for attachment to a steering spline or wheel; electrodynamic shaker systems; long-stroke linear motor actuators; pneumatic actuators; column stands for mounting steering column; gear fixture for mounting the gear; instrumentation (force, torque, displacement, rotary position, acoustic, acceleration); fixtures for mounting gears and columns; brackets, clamps, and fixtures for holding test items; jounce/rebound fixtures and tilt positioners for aligning input forces with tie rods at angles; software and associated data acquisition hardware up to 16 channels for recording, analysis and evaluation of in-lab steering noises and accelerations, road load data acquisition, and general Sound & Vibration analysis; and engineering services to accelerate test effectiveness.
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Suspension Component Test Systems
Acoustic quality, vehicle dynamics and stability, and driver comfort play an increasingly important role in the development of new chassis and suspension systems – both passive and active. Noises in suspension components can cause customer dissatisfaction and lead to high warranty costs and are difficult to diagnose especially on historically-used, noisy hydraulic test rigs. The MB Suspension Component Test Rig (SCTR) enables dynamic simulation of real road excitations and synthesized waveforms, performing industry-standard Force-Velocity and Force-Displacement tests and low speed friction tests, and assessing other NVH and structure-borne noises for comprehensive performance characterization and sound and vibration analyses on a wide variety of chassis components.
