MTS Systems Corporation supplies advanced test systems, motion simulators, and precision sensors worldwide.
Segments
The company operates through two segments, Test & Simulation and Sensors.
Test & Simulation segment
This segment provides testing and simulation solutions, including hardware, software and services, which are used by customers in product development to characterize a product's mechanical properties along with simulation systems for human response features. The company’s soluti...
MTS Systems Corporation supplies advanced test systems, motion simulators, and precision sensors worldwide.
Segments
The company operates through two segments, Test & Simulation and Sensors.
Test & Simulation segment
This segment provides testing and simulation solutions, including hardware, software and services, which are used by customers in product development to characterize a product's mechanical properties along with simulation systems for human response features. The company’s solutions simulate forces and motions that customers expect their products to encounter in use.
A typical Test & Simulation system includes a reaction frame to hold the prototype specimen; a hydraulic pump or electro-mechanical power source; actuators to create the force or motion; and a computer controller with specialized software to coordinate the actuator movement, and to measure, record, analyze and manipulate results. Lower force and less dynamic testing could be accomplished with electro-mechanical power sources. In addition to these basic components, the company sells various accessories and spare parts.
The company provides Test & Simulation customers across all sectors with a spectrum of services to maximize product performance. The company’s service offerings include installation, product life cycle management, professional training, calibration and metrology, technical consulting and onsite and factory repair and maintenance.
In December 2019, the company acquired all ownership interests of R&D, including R&D Test Systems A/S, R&D Engineering A/S, R&D Steel ApS, R&D Prague s.r.o, RGDK Engineering Private Limited, and R&D Tools and Structures A/S (collectively, ‘R&D’), a manufacturer of test systems that simulate the extreme operating environments encountered by large, rotating structures, such as wind turbines and aircraft engine propulsion systems. The acquisition of R&D expands the company’s technology base and market presence for wind energy and aerospace markets worldwide. R&D is included in the company’s Test & Simulation structures sector.
This segment’s products, service and customers are grouped into the following three worldwide sectors:
Ground Vehicles
This sector consists of automobile, truck, motorcycle, motorsports vehicles, construction equipment, agricultural equipment, rail and off-road vehicle manufacturers and their suppliers. Customers include original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), universities, government research and development institutes, motorsports teams and contract test facilities. The company’s products are used to measure and simulate solutions to assess durability, vehicle dynamics and aerodynamics of vehicles, sub-systems and components.
The company’s products include road simulators and component test systems for durability testing; vehicle performance test systems that evaluate ride handling, ride comfort and noise; vehicle dynamics simulators to test conceptual vehicle designs in advance of physical prototypes; electrical motors and energy recovery systems for automotive and aerospace applications; tire performance and rolling resistance measurement systems; and moving ground-plane systems and balances for vehicle aerodynamic measurements in wind tunnels.
Materials
This sector covers a range of applications, spanning different industries, including power generation, aerospace, vehicles and biomedical. The company’s solutions deliver the technologies required to satisfy every material evaluation needed from single-axle tension/compression testing to complex fracture mechanics and multi-axial fatigue testing. The company’s products and services support customers in the research and development of products through the physical characterization of material properties, such as metals, composites and ceramics to polymers, textiles, concrete, geomaterials and various others. The company’s biomedical applications include systems to test durability and performance of implants, prostheses and other medical and dental materials and devices.
Structures
This sector serves the structural testing and simulation needs and services of the company’s customers in the fields of aerospace, structural engineering, oil and gas, wind energy, amusement parks, flight simulation and others. The aerospace structural testing market consists of manufacturers of commercial, military and private aircraft and their suppliers that use its products, systems and software to perform static and fatigue testing of aircraft. Systems for structural engineering include high force static and dynamic testing, as well as seismic simulation tables used worldwide to test the design of structures, such as bridges and buildings, and to help governments establish building codes.
Structural engineering customers include construction companies, government agencies, universities and building materials manufacturers. The wind energy market consists of wind turbine manufacturers and their component suppliers that use the company’s products to improve reliability of blades, bearings and entire wind turbines. The company provides durable motion systems servicing human-rated entertainment and training simulation markets. Key product applications include high-technology motion simulators for the amusement park industry and flight simulators for certified pilot training.
Sensors segment
This segment provides sensing technologies and solutions used worldwide by design engineers and predictive maintenance professionals, serving customers with a focus on total customer satisfaction, and offering regional support to provide sensing solutions.
The company’s sensors provide measurements of vibration, pressure, position, force and sound in various applications. This segment’s products and solutions serve the automotive, aerospace, industrial, defense, and research and development markets, as well as various other markets. Sensors manufactures products utilizing piezoelectric and magnetostriction technology, both of which provide durable sensors used for use in harsh operating environments.
This segment’s products and customers are grouped into the following four worldwide sectors:
Test Sensors
This sector covers various industries, including test and measurement, automotive, rail, aerospace and defense. These sensors are used in various applications, including research and development and testing for use in harsh environments; structural monitoring; ground testing of aircraft and vehicles; impact sensors for shock and vibration testing; component and system performance; ride and handling; durability testing; and noise, vibration, and harshness testing. These sensors provide engineers and scientists with precise and accurate measurements to accelerate technology advancement and reduce new product development cycle time.
Position Sensors
This sector consists of a range of industrial machinery OEMs and their end use customers with applications in all areas of manufacturing, including plastics, steel, construction, agriculture, wood and mining, as well as other factory automation applications. These sensors provide positional feedback for motion control systems, improve productivity by enabling high levels of automation, and enhance safety of machine operations.
Industrial Sensors
This sector consists of sensors used in heavy industrial markets and energy and power generation. Sensors used in heavy industrial markets are primarily used to monitor the vibration and pressure in a spectrum of applications, including motors, pumps, paper machines and steel rollers. Sensors used in the energy and power generation markets are equipped to address hazardous and inaccessible locations and serve gas and wind turbines, oil and gas refineries, and nuclear power instrumentation, as well as other critical energy infrastructure providers.
Systems Sensors
This sector consists of test, measurement and sensing systems primarily used to test, model and monitor the behavior of structures and processes, as well as to ensure safety and compliance from exposure to noise and vibration. This sector also includes the calibration systems used with various sensors, the company’s rental offering of both transactional sensor products, and consultative systems that serve a range of testing and industrial customers.
Sales and Service
Test & Simulation
Test & Simulation products are sold worldwide through a direct field sales and service organization, independent representatives, and distributors; and through other means (e.g., catalogs, internet, etc.) for standard products and accessories.
In addition to direct field sales and service personnel throughout the U.S., the company has sales and service subsidiaries in Toronto, Canada; Berlin, Germany; Paris, France; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Guildford, the United Kingdom; Turin, Italy; Gothenburg, Sweden; Aarhus, Denmark; Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan; Seoul, South Korea; Moscow, Russia; Bangalore, India; and Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China.
Sensors
Sensors products are sold worldwide through a direct sales and service organization, as well as through independent distributors. The independent distributors purchase the company’s products at wholesale pricing and resell the products to their customers.
In addition to direct field sales and service personnel throughout the U.S., the company has sales subsidiaries in Treviolo, Italy; Stevenage, the United Kingdom; Aubervilliers, France; Huckelhoven and Dresden, Germany; Beijing and Shanghai, China; Vandreuil, Canada; and Zaventem, Belgium.
History
MTS Systems Corporation was founded in 1966. The company was incorporated under Minnesota law in 1966.
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