Today's motor vehicles are highly complex, computerized transportation tools with many systems and subsystems designed to provide power, braking, and improved overall control. As environmental concerns continue to grow over automobile emissions and gas mileage, the automotive industry is coming under increasing pressure to improve engine and powertrain performance, reduce emissions, and make cars and trucks safer. In addition, fierce competition has put enormous pressure on auto manufacturers to reduce costs while improving performance, both in design and manufacture as well as on the road.

As a result, many automotive test facilities face a growing need to provide more and better test data and improve overall testing capabilities. In the past, that meant replacing test data acquisition and management systems at considerable capital expense. However, Test SLATE enables facilities to now significantly improve their systems and testing performance by seamlessly integrating a wide variety of existing legacy subsystems and new hardware using simple PCs and software with which users can quickly create sophisticated, automated test sequences that be changed on the fly, eliminating hours of costly programming revisions and test condition re-verification.

Test SLATE is ideally suited to provide auto manufacturers with crucial driveability, emissions, aerodynamic, thermodynamic, acoustic, climatic, and safety test data, at a cost five to ten times less than competing software applications. Test SLATE makes it easier to move "road testing" into the laboratory where it can be used to test at virtually any climatic condition that can be encountered anywhere in the world, saving even more time and money by eliminating expensive location testing.

Test SLATE is so comprehensive, flexible and cost-efficient, it's used in some of the most advanced national and international automotive test facilities, including the General Motors Proving Ground and Technical Center, Visteon Corporation, Ford Motor Company, and numerous tier component suppliers.

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