Automotive 
Detroit

Many products and components must be exposed to the harshest operating environments before being released into the marketplace.  These include Vibration and Shock, Crash, Drop, and Freefall, Severe Temperature and Humidity Exposure, Thermal Shocks, Solar Radiation Exposure, Ingress Protection (Water, Ice, Snow, and Dust), Corrosion and Mixed/harmful Gas Exposure, and many more.  

The Bureau Veritas Auburn Hills laboratory performs Environmental Simulation Simulation, Performance, and Reliability testing on your product or components. We have expertise in automotive, medical, renewable energy, network systems, ITE, measurement, household, and various industrial-type equipment. Our testing laboratory delivers fast, reliable results to confirm your product meets client expectations and warranty requirements.  Depending on the products' specs, our environmental laboratory can perform all levels of ingress tests for water and dust. Flammability tests can also be performed here. 

The Bureau Veritas Auburn Hills laboratory performs vehicle EMC testing to a wide variety of specifications and requirements, including vehicle brands such as:  Ford, GM, Hyundai, Kia, Daimler, VW, Audi, Porsche, BMW, Renault, Honda, Nissan, Mazda, JLR, Tata, Tesla, John Deere, Navistar, Rivian, Subaru, Toyota, and Volvo.

• Electrostatic discharge 
• Conducted transient emissions 
• RF radiated immunity 
• Bulk current injection (BCI) 
• Conducted immunity on power lines (supply voltage transients) 
• Conducted immunity on signal lines 
• Immunity to voltage fluctuations, disturbances of the supply voltage lines (dropouts, dips, cranking, ramp up/down) 
• Hand portable transmitter immunity exposure 
• Radiated and conducted emissions testing (up to 40 GHz) 
• Current harmonics 
• Voltage fluctuation and flicker

NOW OFFERING:  High Voltage Testing Capability 

Electrical Product Safety is another compliance component for certain automotive products. The safety of the products and users, intended use conditions, and environment are some of the key elements of safety considerations. There are many global product safety regulations that manufacturers need to fulfill to demonstrate compliance when marketing their products.

Bureau Veritas can help manufacturers to get their products smoothly into the global market. We have the required expertise, accreditations, global network, and tools to navigate our clients from the beginning to the end of the project. When third-party product safety testing and certification are required, which involves a highly experienced independent third party to scrutinize prototype designs or early production samples and screen out significant errors that even the most diligent design houses may miss.

The Bureau Veritas Auburn Hills laboratory is accredited to cover a variety of product categories: Information Technology Equipment (62368 series) is one that a manufacturer needs to pay close attention to when looking to enter the European Market and beyond. Our services include but are not limited to Construction Evaluation, Testing, Report Compilation, Pre-Compliance Reviews, On-Site Standard Training, Factory Inspections, and Certification.

The Bureau Veritas Auburn Hills laboratory has two ETS Lindgren 3 meter chambers, one for Emissions and one for Immunity.  

We can cover all FCC, EN and CISPR component standards. Additionally, we have a Rhode & Schwarz TS8997 for conducted testing that can test up to 40GHz.

In addition to automotive EMC, we can also perform regulatory testing offering the convenience of both OEM and regulatory in a single test environment.   

GMA
Global Market Access (GMA) is determining applicable international regulations and confirming product compliance to those regulations. This process can be complex and intimidating, and the consequences of non-compliance can result in impounding product or denied access exposing manufacturers to potential field related and/or legal issues.

When considering GMA, it impacts almost every aspect of your product – Safety, EMC, Wireless, RoHS, Cybersecurity, and Energy & Environmental.

And as products become more complex, so do the regulations. Bureau Veritas’ dedicated GMA team will be your partner in this tedious process and undertake the burden of everything - from helping you with the applications, submitting applications, collect and review required documentation, and consistent communications/follow-up with foreign approval agencies. The ability to have BV as your GMA champion is what we’re trained for which will allow you to focus on the other aspects of your job.

Homologation
The Bureau Veritas Auburn Hills laboratory can perform Homologation to ECE R10 for your devices that need to be sold or used in Europe.

Working with Bureau Veritas Certification,  the testing is performed in Auburn Hills and Bureau Veritas Certification reviews and assigns the applicable homologation number upon approval. 

The testing of Automotive lighting is one of the specialties at the Bureau Veritas Auburn Hills laboratory.  

With decades of experience testing head lights, tail lights, interior lighting etc. we have developed and implemented very advanced vision system to determine light intensity and anomalies for the most advanced lighting today. 

Using the PowerWave 250 the Bureau Veritas Auburn Hills laboratory can test e-motors, BRFM’s, SLA’s, inverters, batteries , electric pumps, and other powertrain components for EV/PHEV vehicles.  

With the ability to supply the High Voltage DUT with up to 1500VDC and 1000A our laboratory can fully power these devices as they would be in the vehicle. 

When it comes to the EMC testing of Audio and Infotainment devices, the Bureau Veritas Auburn Hills laboratory is one of the leaders.  Utilizing audio analyzers and other specialized equipment the Auburn Hills laboratory can quickly and accurately determine issues that arise under immunity testing.  

Additionally, all of the CISPR25 chambers have over 20 pairs of Pi filters as well as additional fiber optic options to bring signals out for analysis. 

Displays
Using the vision system at Bureau Veritas Auburn Hills the EMC laboratory can monitor and threshold any portion of the display. This could be gauge sweeping, odometer number tracking or backlighting.  With decades of testing displays and instrument clusters our Engineers and Technicians understand the depth of OEM test plans. 

The Bureau Veritas Auburn Hill laboratory has the most current High Voltage testing capabilities available, including testing to ISO 7637-4, ISO 21498 (View High Voltage Testing in Auburn Hills announcement). 

With the ability to test 1500VDC and 1000A using the PowerWave 250 our laboratory can provide power to any DUT needing High Voltage DC power. Additionally with the Ripple NX and Compact NX5, Ripple and burst and surge test cases are satisfied as well.