Flexible Testing, Deep Analysis & High-Resolution Data Insight for Modern R&D Teams

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Engineering Testing covers a wide spectrum of activities aimed at understanding how prototypes, materials, components, and assemblies behave under dynamic, thermal, mechanical, and combined conditions. Whether used for engineering testing, reliability testing, materials testing, safety testing, mechanical testing, environmental testing, compliance testing, or design verification testing, R&D teams require flexible data acquisition, advanced analysis methods, precise control capabilities, and complete documentation to support development, validation, redesign, and product performance optimization.

Our m+p Engineering Testing platform combines high-performance vibration control, rich data acquisition, powerful post-processing capabilities, and seamless integration with both m+p hardware and National Instruments (NI) hardware. Unlike simple qualification or compliance tests, engineering tests demand insight, not just pass/fail. That’s why our solutions focus on high-throughput data capture, FFT flexibility, transfer function creation, mathematical operations, advanced cursor tools, and powerful export options for simulation correlation and iterative design. Whether working with engineering prototypes, conducting design validation and testing, or supporting product reliability analysis, our unified platform provides deep engineering insight for faster and more accurate decision-making.

Engineering Tests Require Much More Insight Than Qualification Tests

Unlike qualification programs, which primarily aim to verify compliance, engineering tests require detailed insights into prototype behaviour. R&D teams need full access to raw data, flexible FFT settings, transfer functions, filters, integration, differentiation, mathematical operations, and accurate reporting for simulation, redesign and failure analysis.

Our Engineering Testing solutions provide high-throughput parallel data recording during vibration or environmental excitation, ensuring that no information is lost. Engineers can perform FFT analysis with flexible windowing, averaging and spectral settings, build transfer functions, subtract signals, integrate acceleration into velocity or displacement, and visualise behaviour with advanced cursor tools. Graphics and datasets can be exported directly for simulation updates or engineering verification tests, allowing prototypes to be improved quickly and accurately.

Protecting Prototypes While Still Exploring Their Limits

R&D teams frequently work with fragile engineering prototypes. These must be protected during early design validation tests, yet in other cases intentionally driven to failure to evaluate product reliability. Balancing safety and exploration requires intelligent control strategies.

Our platform offers robust safety testing capabilities, including notching, vector-notching, and frequency or phase-based abort conditions. During Sine Dwell or stepped sine, engineers can specify abort limits based on frequency shift, phase changes, or amplitude increases—ensuring that the prototype is protected or allowed to fail intentionally under controlled conditions. Every abort event is logged automatically for full traceability and product safety testing documentation.

Supporting Complex Engineering Test Workflows

Engineering testing often involves sequences of different test methods—vibration, shock, climatic testing, SRS, random, sine dwell, mechanical testing, and materials testing. Coordinating these workflows manually is time-consuming and error-prone.

VibUtil allows engineers to define sequences of engineering tests easily, such as sine → random → shock → sine dwell → custom steps. The system manages transitions automatically while preserving parameters across each stage. This supports engineering prototype verification, development verification test procedures, and full product development testing workflows.

Parallel Recording & High Throughput for Deep Engineering Insight

R&D teams rely on deep data insight during development. They must record multiple channels at high sampling rates during vibration stimulation, capturing the full dynamic behaviour of prototypes for detailed analysis.

Our solutions enable high-throughput parallel recording in real time. During vibration, shock, or environmental simulation, all relevant channels are written to disk continuously without impacting control performance. Engineers can later perform frequency-domain analysis, orbit plots, time-domain analysis, and transfer functions in the Analyzer. This capability is essential for prototypes undergoing design validation testing, engineering verification tests, and structural refinement

Integrating Third-Party Hardware Such as National Instruments

Engineering departments often have existing NI-based data acquisition setups or want to expand their measurement capability with additional channels or sensors.

The m+p Analyzer directly supports National Instruments hardware, allowing engineers to combine NI systems with m+p solutions in one unified workflow. This makes mixed hardware test benches easy to integrate and provides a seamless data analysis environment for materials testing, impact testing of materials, vibration test for packaging, and compliance testing.

Modal Analysis for Simulation Correlation & Redesign

Engineering tests frequently support redesign, FEA updates, and simulation validation. Engineers need damping values, mode shapes, natural frequencies and modal parameters to improve finite element models and validate engineering prototypes.

Our integrated engineering testing environment includes full modal analysis capability. Engineers can perform impact or shaker-based modal tests, extract mode shapes, natural frequencies and damping values, and use these results for simulation updates or design validation. This makes development verification tests more meaningful and accelerates product performance testing.

Combining Vibration Control, Data Acquisition & Numerical Simulation

Prototypes and engineering prototypes require iterative testing, redesign and simulation. Exporting high-quality test data for correlation is essential for product reliability analysis and design verification.

All signals, FFT results, transfer functions, shock responses, and processed data can be exported easily into common formats for numerical simulation tools. Engineers can create thorough reports, update FEA models, and combine experimental results with virtual models. This directly supports design validation and testing, product reliability testing, and engineering verification test workflows.

Supporting Reliability-Oriented Engineering Workflows

As products move towards release, R&D teams need to evaluate reliability through vibration stimulation, temperature variation, mechanical loading and often even HASS testing conditions.

Our engineering testing platform supports reliability testing workflows by offering precise control, notching, data recording, environmental control integration and deep analysis. This enables engineering departments to correlate test behaviour with product reliability analysis and accelerate development cycles.



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Choose between factory and ISO 17025 calibrations with on-site and rental services to minimize downtime.

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Our experts help you train new employees, master new testing challenges, or optimize specific test processes.

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Let us take care of hardware calibration and software updates so you can focus on your tests.

“Life safety and security selected m+p as our preferred vibration controller supplier for the intuitive software and competitive pricing. As a UKAS accredited test house, we expect the highest levels of system reliability, stability and support which m+p have successfully delivered with every system.”

Andrew Lawson
Laboratory Manager at Intertek
Leatherhead/United Kingdom

“Life safety and security selected m+p as our preferred vibration controller supplier for the intuitive software and competitive pricing. As a UKAS accredited test house, we expect the highest levels of system reliability, stability and support which m+p have successfully delivered with every system.”


Andrew Lawson
Laboratory Manager at Intertek
Leatherhead/United Kingdom

“Life safety and security selected m+p as our preferred vibration controller supplier for the intuitive software and competitive pricing. As a UKAS accredited test house, we expect the highest levels of system reliability, stability and support which m+p have successfully delivered with every system.”


Andrew Lawson
Laboratory Manager at Intertek
Leatherhead/United Kingdom

Case studies

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Element laboratory | UK

Shake and bake testing for aerospace components

China Electronics Technology Group Corporation | CN

Radar reliability testing

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