Testing ways to cut NVH costs

Traditional approaches to conducting noise, vibration, and harshness testing are often very costly for companies, but alternative solutions exist.

Virtually every company has difficulty absorbing a financial hit. There are ways to offset a money tilt, but not all options are fail-safe. Price increases can recoup losses, but are usually a hard sell to customers unless competitors also push up their fees. A labor pare-down frequently misses the mark, especially for a company already at a bare staffing minimum. And lamenting a dire situation will not effect change, or will it? It appears that more companies are hearing the battle cry for cost-effective ways to do noise and vibration testing.

“The need to do NVH testing is filtering down to even Tier 3 suppliers,” said D.J. Pickering, North American Sales Manager for MTS Systems' Software and Consulting group. “We recognize the roll-down in responsibility and realize that NVH testing is no longer being done exclusively by NVH experts using a lot of high-end, expensive equipment.”