Quality counts
Our products must meet a wide array of requirements and expectations: Our customers expect high-quality products that meet their specifications. The design and manufacturing process for our products is determined by laws and regulations (e.g. emission laws for fuel tanks or food guidelines for packaging products). All of our products have a long service cycle, which means that consistently high quality must be guaranteed over a long period of time.
This is where our Central Laboratory & Validation department (CL&V) comes into action. We inspect the functionality and quality of our product during every phase of the product life cycle, starting at development, prototypes, and the pilot production phase, all the way up to regular series production monitoring.
We are responsible for external and internal customers.
Some of our tasks include operations tests, materials testing, emission measurements, reliability and durability tests, as well as statutory qualification examinations, the inspection of outsourced components, and failure analysis.
We have an extensive assortment of testing equipment at our disposal. Some of this equipment has even been developed and built by us after years of experience and testing. Many of the specifications we developed are now industry standards and are mirrored in our customers’ test requirements.
Because of our close partnerships with institutes and associations (e.g. SAE, VDA) and our constant interaction with our customers, our knowledge is constantly at the cutting-edge of technology and we identify new trends very early. For example, we have supported the development of low-emission diesel technology (AdBlue) for more than a year.
Jürgen Runkel
Director Central Laboratory & Validation
