LMS Engineering Services has made a strategic commitment to its USA automotive customers by opening up a major consulting center in Detroit. The operational scope will range from troubleshooting projects for NVH, durability, ride & handling refinement, through technology transfer programs, to full size co-development projects where LMS assumes project responsibility for the final functional performance of a vehicle or sub-assembly. The initial group of senior consulting engineers from Leuven are in place and will compliment the exisiting North American group of multi-body dynamics and FEA consultants who joined LMS during the LMS CADSI acquisition earlier this year. The group will be headed by Tim Palmer, previously a director of a major automotive CAE-NVH engineering consultancy in the Detroit area.
As part of the plan for a rapid build-up of its presence and effectiveness, LMS has signed an agreement with the Sika Corporation to make use of their new NVH center. This $8M facility gives the engineering team immediate access to state-of-the-art resources: a chassis dynamometer, a reverberation room, a semi-anechoic chamber, a jury testing room, and all the necessary office space to house the operation. In turn, Sika will network the LMS Test and Analysis software throughout the facility to test, validate and optimize the performance of their specialty acoustic, bonding and sealing materials.
Dr. Urbain Vandeurzen, LMS Chairman, President, and CEO commented, "LMS has developed innovative approaches for vehicle development that have enabled a breakthrough at critical points in the functional engineering process. These have been validated with major automotive OEMs in recent, large scale developments, and the new Engineering Center is a strategic response to the tremendous interest of our US clients."
Dirk De Vis, Director of LMS Engineering Services concluded, "We provide a unique combination of testing expertise and CAE skills, of technology excellence and application knowledge. We now have the staffing and the resources to rapidly expand the business in the US."
About Sika Automotive:
Sika Automotive is an industry leader in the development and production of high-performance speciality acoustic, bonding and sealing systems. Sika Automotive, based in Madison Heights, Michigan is a division of Sika Corporation. Sika Automotive provides automobile manufacturers with a proven expertise in effective and economical ways to improve interior sound quality in vehicles worldwide. For more information on Sika, please visit www.sika.com.
About LMS International
LMS is an engineering innovation partner for companies in the automotive, aerospace and other advanced manufacturing industries. LMS enables its customers to get better products faster to market, and to turn superior process efficiency to their strategic competitive advantage. LMS delivers a unique combination of virtual simulation software, testing systems, and engineering services. We are focused on the mission critical performance attributes in key manufacturing industries, including structural integrity, handling, safety, reliability, comfort and sound quality. Through our technology, people and over 25 years of experience, LMS has become the partner of choice for most of the leading discrete manufacturing companies worldwide. LMS, a Dassault Systèmes Gold Partner, is certified to ISO9001:2000 quality standards and operates through a network of subsidiaries and representatives in key locations around the world.
As part of the plan for a rapid build-up of its presence and effectiveness, LMS has signed an agreement with the Sika Corporation to make use of their new NVH center. This $8M facility gives the engineering team immediate access to state-of-the-art resources: a chassis dynamometer, a reverberation room, a semi-anechoic chamber, a jury testing room, and all the necessary office space to house the operation. In turn, Sika will network the LMS Test and Analysis software throughout the facility to test, validate and optimize the performance of their specialty acoustic, bonding and sealing materials.
Dr. Urbain Vandeurzen, LMS Chairman, President, and CEO commented, "LMS has developed innovative approaches for vehicle development that have enabled a breakthrough at critical points in the functional engineering process. These have been validated with major automotive OEMs in recent, large scale developments, and the new Engineering Center is a strategic response to the tremendous interest of our US clients."
Dirk De Vis, Director of LMS Engineering Services concluded, "We provide a unique combination of testing expertise and CAE skills, of technology excellence and application knowledge. We now have the staffing and the resources to rapidly expand the business in the US."
About Sika Automotive:
Sika Automotive is an industry leader in the development and production of high-performance speciality acoustic, bonding and sealing systems. Sika Automotive, based in Madison Heights, Michigan is a division of Sika Corporation. Sika Automotive provides automobile manufacturers with a proven expertise in effective and economical ways to improve interior sound quality in vehicles worldwide. For more information on Sika, please visit www.sika.com.
About LMS International
LMS is an engineering innovation partner for companies in the automotive, aerospace and other advanced manufacturing industries. LMS enables its customers to get better products faster to market, and to turn superior process efficiency to their strategic competitive advantage. LMS delivers a unique combination of virtual simulation software, testing systems, and engineering services. We are focused on the mission critical performance attributes in key manufacturing industries, including structural integrity, handling, safety, reliability, comfort and sound quality. Through our technology, people and over 25 years of experience, LMS has become the partner of choice for most of the leading discrete manufacturing companies worldwide. LMS, a Dassault Systèmes Gold Partner, is certified to ISO9001:2000 quality standards and operates through a network of subsidiaries and representatives in key locations around the world.
