EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., March 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
MTS Systems Corporation (Nasdaq: MTSC) introduced a wide range of new
products yesterday at the SAE 2002 World Congress in Detroit. These include a
new controller for physical testing, a telemetry feature for the company's
widely accepted SWIFT(R) wheel force transducer family, a new, high frequency
physical simulation system and integrated engineering solutions developed by
the SmartSim Community members.
MTS products announced include:
-- FlexTest(TM) SE, the latest addition to MTS's family of controllers,
is a digital device specifically developed for automotive testing
applications employing servohydraulic actuators. FlexTest SE was
designed to be simple, easy to use, cost effective, yet versatile
enough to be easily upgraded for more advanced applications. It can
perform a wide variety of tests on its own, or can be linked to a PC
to monitor and control simulation tests making it particularly useful
in vehicle component testing.
-- AccuPhase(TM), a telemetry feature for SWIFT wheel force transducers,
offers users a wireless data acquisition capability for those
applications where the protruding equipment of the standard SWIFT is
not acceptable, such as heavy traffic areas or off road usage.
AccuPhase telemetry provides SWIFT users with the best of both analog
and digital data transmission. AccuPhase telemetry provides
non-contact data transmission, yet produces high quality accurate data
with nearly zero transfer time delay.
-- Series 353 High Frequency Multi-Axial Simulation Table MAST(TM)
capable of frequency ranges reaching 500 hertz. This new system was
formally released for sale in Japan last month and now gains worldwide
availability. The physical system, when coupled with MTS advanced
software RPC Pro and I-DEAS Pro software, is targeted at resolving a
broad array of design validation issues in component durability as
well as noise and vibration and performance attributes.
The SmartSim Community, a joint development and marketing initiative of
MTS Systems Corp., Mechanical Dynamics, Inc. (Nasdaq: MDII), and nCode
International, introduced a number of co-developed products that further
advance the state of integrated engineering solutions for vehicle development.
These tools, hardware and software for physical, virtual, and analytical
testing and evaluation methods, dramatically accelerate the development and
validation of virtual prototypes. Among the auto companies taking advantage
of these new tools are DaimlerChrysler and The Fraunhofer Institute for
Durability, both in Germany, and Hyundai Motors, Korea, along with other major
automakers. The co-developed products include:
-- MTS Component EDM(TM) release 1.3 which generates empirical dynamic
mathematic models compatible with MDI ADAMS(R) release 12.0
-- MTS RPC(R) Pro release 3.0 embedding more extensive fatigue
technologies from nCode International
-- Mechanical Dynamics Inc. introduced ADAMS/Durability 12.0.
-- nCode International introduced FeFatique 5.0.
For more information about The SmartSim Community, visit
http://www.smartsim.org
MTS Systems Corporation is the world leader in the supply of
computer-based testing and simulation systems designed to rapidly determine
the mechanical behavior of materials and structures helping customers
accelerate and improve their design, development, and manufacturing processes.
Products also include modeling and test analysis software, control
instrumentation products for automating manufacturing processes, and
consulting services. Headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minn., MTS had 2,200
employees and revenue of $397 million for the fiscal year ended September
2001. For more information, visit http://www.mts.com
SOURCE MTS Systems Corporation
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CONTACT:
Thomas Minneman, Treasurer, +1-952-937-4647,
for MTS Systems Corporation
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