Comprehensive Capabilities and Quick Response for North American Customers

MSC is a global supplier with Research & Development centers and support capabilities in North America, Europe and Asia to provide quick, local response to customer needs. Our Application Research Center in Canton, Michigan has primary responsibilities for products used by North American customers.

Located in the heart of the automotive industry, the TS16949-registered Canton ARC offers MSC customers a complete suite of noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) and temperature development capabilities, including experimental, computer aided engineering (CAE) and materials engineering expertise. The Canton facility also contains an education center to provide training in NVH fundamentals, MCS products and applications, Bruel & Kjaer University courses, and a variety of customer support curricula.

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The Canton ARC is fully-equipped with:

Experimental Capabilities 4WD NVH Chassis Dynamometer Six NVH Brake Dynamometers Sound Transmission Loss Suite Hemi-anechoic Chambers (two separate chambers) Hemi-anechoic Chamber with Structural Vibration Bedplate Fully Anechoic Chamber Reverberation Rooms (two separate chambers) Sound Quality Listening Room Scanning Laser Vibrometer Near-Field Acoustic Holography Experimental Modal Analysis Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) Capabilities Twelve CPU HP Itanium2 Unix Server Statistical Energy Analysis (SEA) – Airborne Noise Analysis Finite Element Analysis (FEA) – Structural / Structural-Acoustic Analysis Boundary Element Analysis (BEA) – Exterior Radiated Noise Analysis Non-Linear Analysis (Brake Noise) Full Vehicle, System and Component Modeling Viscoelastic and Porous Material Modeling

Material Engineering Capabilities Noise & Vibration Beam Testing Instron Adhesion Strength Testing Rheology Analysis of Polymers Differential Scanning Calorimeter Thermo-gravimetric Analyzer Fourier Transform Infrared Cyclic Corrosion Thermal Chamber Stereo-Microscope Optical Micrometer Brookfield Viscometer Analytical Balances Olsen Cup Formation