A unique track record in vehicle development
Over the past decades, LMS Engineering Services has developed a unique track record in supporting leading automotive and ground vehicle companies in engineering innovative products and optimizing their development processes. LMS offers a unique combination of engineering skills, development experience, and application know-how. LMS support its customers in optimizing virtually all automotive systems for key functional performance attributes, including acoustics, NVH, durability, system dynamics, ride and handling, and structural integrity.
Covering the complete development process
LMS enables customers to analyze and optimize a design's real-life performance from the early concept stage onwards. In addition to saving time and money, this allows development teams to drive major design choices from the styling, packaging and performance perspective. Throughout the detailed design and engineering phase, LMS project teams excel at detecting weak spots, identifying root causes, and delivering valuable insight in time to affect design decisions. LMS quickly diagnoses late-stage development problems and develops pragmatic solutions with minimal impact on the vehicle's weight, cost and time to market.
Providing a lasting return on investment
LMS provides a lasting return on investment through an open working relationship and a direct transfer of knowledge and best practices to its customers. Backed by a large software development team, LMS develops and deploys innovative tools and methodologies to eliminate process bottlenecks. The unique combination of vehicle development support and process re-engineering capabilities allows LMS to support customers in deploying a powerful development process – with high throughput and precision. A process that delivers the right products – designed right first time.
A broad range of engineering services
- Process re-engineering and technology transfer projects – implementing breakthrough strategies for functional performance engineering
- Full-vehicle and subsystem co-development projects – taking full responsibility from concept to final validation
- Troubleshooting and design refinement projects – finding the root cause of engineering problems and solving it in record time
…in key vehicle performance attributes
- NVH and acoustics – benchmarking and target setting, NVH analysis of design concepts, soundquality engineering, interior noise reduction, pass-by noise optimization, ride and comfort optimization
- Durability – load-data generation, test-schedule development, chassis and body structure optimization for fatigue and misuse
- Ride and Handling – vehicle stability, maneuverability, rollover, braking, steering and steering feeling, control systems
- Crash, occupant & pedestrian safety
…for automotive and ground vehicle applications
- Automotive
- Truck
- Bus
- Off-highway and agricultural vehicles
- Motorcycles
- Recreational vehicles
- Full vehicle
- Car body
- Engine/transmission/driveline
- Intake/exhaust/auxiliaries
- Chassis/suspension/brakes
- Trim/interior
…supported by multiple engineering competence centers
- LMS has Engineering Competence Centers in Belgium, Germany, Italy and the US
- Equipped with state-of-the art infrastructure for Design, CAE and Test, including a full range of in-house structural test labs, semianechoic chambers and chassis-dyno rooms
- Access to sophisticated durability test rigs and to the Ford Lommel proving grounds, through participation in the Flanders' DRIVE Engineering Center (Lommel, Belgium)
- Local facilities in Europe, US and Asia
