consis-tently meet demanding quality, cost and performance requirements. Regardless of how standard or com-plex your testing requirements, we can likely provide an attractive solu- tion to your testing challenges. Overview of Automotive Testing The transportation industry consists ofmanufacturers and suppliers of pas-senger cars, trucks, commercial ve- hicles, buses, motorcycles, trains and even airplanes. Vehicle manufacturers perform final assembly of manufactured components and sub-assemblies mainly from external suppliers, a trend which will continue in the future. The- se global suppliers are responsible for designing, engineering, manufacturing, verifying quality and delivering value- added components “just in time” at competitive prices.Additional factors include governmentregulations and increasing consumer demands for vehicles with improved performance, increased safety, im- proved fuel economy and reduced emissions. These demands require that delivered raw materials and manu- factured components be tested to meet customer specifications, and that the complete assembled vehicle is tested for quality during the vehicle design and development phases.The Zwick Roell Group supplies awide range of testing machines and systems to meet the most deman- ding needs to support product and process development, improve qualityand enhance the safety of vehicles. Zwick’s long-term expertise with over60 years in providing well-engineeredtesting systems and aftermarket ser- vices in 55 countries worldwide, allows our customers to be more com- petitive in today’s challenging global automotive market. Automotive com- panies and suppliers worldwide depend on Zwick when it comes to providing the best value and long-term return on their testing equipment investment.This brochure provides an overview ofZwick materials and component test systems in the automotive sector as well as a brief summary of the exten- sive line of testing machines for static and dynamic testing of materials and components. This information should be important and of key interest to in- dividuals involved in the design, re- search, quality assurance testing or production of automotive systems (including cars, trucks and motorcycles) and to those who need to

Zwick Roell Group –More than a century of experience in materials testing

Mechanical testing is the oldestdiscipline of materials testing and its importance has increased steadily until the present day. Leonardo da Vinci , the genius artist, inventor and researcher of the 15
th Century madeamong other things, a simple tensile testing device to for wires – an early predecessor to today’s universal testing machine. About one hundred years later, Galileo Galilei, who is considered the founder of materials science and materials testing, con- ducted theoretical studies on the elastic behaviour of materials. The first machines testing were built about the middle of the 18th century in France.Since the middle of the 19th century,the company Amsler has been invol- ved in materials testing. The compa- nies Roell & Korthaus (est. 1920) and Zwick (est. 1937) share a similar heri- tage in the manufacturing and supply of equipment, machines and systems for the testing of materials. These companies along with Toni Technik,a leader in building materials testing, Indentec Ltd. and Acmel Labo comprise the Zwick Roell Group.Today, the Zwick Roell Group offersa comprehensive product range – from manually-operated hardness testing machines, universal testing machines, fully-automated (robotic) materials test systems, to complex testing systems for production line applications, and for realistic simu- lation of operational stresses on vehicles. Zwick’s extensive expertise in designing high-quality test systems including state-of-the-art electronics and intelligent and reliable application software offers significant solutions to our customer’s most-demanding test requirements.
The Zwick headquarters is located in Ulm Germany, between the automotive centers ofStuttgart and Munich 3