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Last week CTS received the award "PARTNER OPERATION" from the Würth company. The cooperation was especially pushed by the former CTS employee Jan Drosselmeier, who is responsible for the CTS workshop as a field service employee. CTS is pleased to have such a strong partner at its side.

Crash tests with the PRIMUS dummy were recently carried out for a study in the field of accident reconstruction. These were rear-end collisions between cars and bicycles. To secure the results, the dummies were subjected to an autopsy in the CTS laboratory in order to record the damages on the test specimen for the evaluation of the study.

Not only CTS was represented with a booth at the Safety-Week in Würzburg last week, but also the internationally active EDAG group from Switzerland. 
A special eye-catcher at this year's event was EDAG's "CityBot" innovation model. The PRIMUS dummy was a special passenger. 
In this train, the cooperation between CTS, EDAG and HWT Dresden was announced. Currently, a simulation model of the PRIMUS dummy is being developed on the basis of the Impetus model, which should be available in spring 2021. 

The login will take you directly to the new CTS web store. The general operation of the search options is comparable to the already known search engine. However, we have developed some new features to make it easier for you to find suitable crash tests.

From now on you can benefit from your own customer account by managing your purchases and users independently. Besides a new quick search function and a text search, the performance of the new store is dynamic and fast. Simply register online in the new CTS web store!

The team around test manager Dipl. - Ing. Ralf Bührmann crashed last week for the engineering office Schmedding & Partner from Oldenburg. In this case, the task was to reconstruct a collision at a crossroads. Thanks to the crash results, the expert in charge of the case, Dipl.-Ing. Norbert Marten, was able to draw valuable conclusions about the accident, especially about the collision speed.

This week the dog team of the Münster police force was again on the crash site. The young protection dogs or drug detection dogs and their handlers set up different scenarios, such as the search for drugs on and in vehicles. In this way the emergency could be tested under real conditions.

The tests carried out at CTS according to the specifications of MASH (MASH 2009 Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware / MASH 2016 Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware Second Edition) can be found on the international FHWA list. Especially in the USA, this list serves authorities to inform themselves about current systems available on the market and to access the corresponding test certificates.
 

Traffic restraint systems often have to be checked for their functionality by dynamic and virtual simulations before the first crash test.

To this end, CTS has been cooperating for some weeks now with EDAG Engineering GmbH and GDTech S.A. "The aim is to offer our customers holistic and, above all, independent solutions, right up to the successful completion of standard tests", says Dipl.-Ing. Peter Schimmelpfennig (Managing Partner of CTS).

The new elevating platform for the crash facility has just arrived. With a working height of over 22 metres, the platform is mainly used as a telescopic arm for top shots of crash tests. The entire crash team around Dipl.-Ing. Ralf Bührmann (test manager) is very happy about the new vehicle in the CTS fleet. 

This week, the biofidelic PRIMUS dummy was used for an accident reconstruction experiment in a specially rented swimming pool.

"All PRIMUS dummies are suitable for underwater use, this opens up completely new possibilities for manufacturers of e.g. diving equipment or for lifeguards who can use the PRIMUS dummy as a training object," says Dr. M. Dobberstein (Managing Director CTS). The PRIMUS dummy can also be used for the diving training of astronauts, underwater blast tests or other diving exercises.

The re-fitting work on the crash test facility has been successfully completed in the last few days, which now enables the CTS team to react even more flexibly and at shorter notice to test orders. Especially for standard tests, e.g. EN 1317, EN 12767, PAS 68, ASTM F2656/F2656M, IWA14-1, MASH, etc., this has opened up new possibilities for prompt execution.

Even if the avoidance of personal contacts is the main focus these days, we are still there for you. Both on the crash site and in the office, operations continue with the best possible protection for customers and employees.

If it is not possible for you to be live on site during crash tests due to the current situation, we will be happy to set up a video livestream for you.

We are well positioned for the coming weeks and look forward to continuing to work with you as productively as before.

In these days the crash system was completely rebuilt. A conversion that Managing Director Dr. Mirko Dobberstein has high hopes for: "Even before the conversion measures, we were able to move vehicles weighing up to 70 t without any problems, but this is now taking place within a significantly optimised tolerance range. The crash system can now be adapted even more flexibly and spontaneously to the most varied test requirements".

Already this week successful tests according to MASH were carried out. This standard is the benchmark for crash barriers used in road traffic worldwide.

"Since we have become even more flexible thanks to the retrofit, new possibilities arise in scheduling. We are now able to accept orders for standard tests, especially according to MASH, even at short notice", says Dipl.-Ing. Peter Schimmelpfennig (Managing Partner of CTS).

Last week CTS was present at the GPEC in Frankfurt. Dipl.-Ing. Peter Schimmelpfennig and the new Managing Director Dr. Mirko Dobberstein introduced the biofidelic crash test dummy PRIMUS. The PRIMUS dummy is particularly suitable as a training object for Special Forces. But Dipl.-Ing. Peter Schimmelpfennig also presented in his speech the excellent application possibilities for approval tests of safety clothing, such as protective vests and helmets.

At the beginning of February, representatives of the University of Zagreb were guests in the dummy production of CTS. The reason for the visit was to pick up two dummies for the Faculty of Transport Sciences / Department of Transport. The planned field of application of the dummies will be research in the field of accident reconstruction.

Dr. Mirko Dobberstein has been Managing Director of crashtest-service since 1 February 2020.

Born in Cologne, he studied electrical engineering at RWTH Aachen University and received his doctorate in 1996 at WZL in the field of production planning and control. After holding various management positions at the automotive supplier Hella and the data and process specialist Eucon, he was Managing Director of DAD - Deutscher Auto Dienst in Ahrensburg.

Now CTS is looking forward to new impulses from the experienced businessman. Together with the managing partner Dipl.-Ing. Peter Schimmelpfennig, the focus of the cooperation is on the further strategic orientation and the expansion of the capacities of the Münster-based company. 

Have a good start into 2020!

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Once again a PRIMUS dummy was crashed as part of a customers request. In order to evaluate the damages of e.g. the ribs or vertetebral bodies, the dummy underwent a CT-scan.
For this purpose, the CT-equipment at the Münster University Hospital (UKM) were made available. Under the leadership of University Prof. Dr. W. Heindel, Dr. C. Schülke (senior doctor) and Dr. S. Roßlenbroich (senior doctor / specialist for orthopaedics and trauma surgery) a complete computer tomography of the PRIMUS dummy was carried out to detect bone fractures and other internal damages.
Also in the future, the UKM and CTS will continue to work together as part of the scope of assessing damages of crashed dummies.

Colleagues from CTS used this year's christmas campaign to support Münsters Child Protection Agency with a donation action.

As part of the prize draw, for various prizes were up for grabs, e.g. half-day holiday or exemption from the kitchen service, donations were collected for the Child Protection Agency. In order to increase the proceeds, management decided not to send out christmas cards as in previous years but to donate these savings too. The Child Protection Agency were happy about the middle five-figure amount, which the managing director of the Child Protection Agency Mr. Kaiser accepted this week.

We wish you and your families a Merry Christmas!

Another trade fair visit was on this week's agenda for the managing partner Dipl.-Ing. Peter Schimmelpfennig. Besides expert discussions on vehicle restraint systems, Peter Schimmelpfennig presented the PRIMUS-Dummy at the trade fair "Milipol" (trade fair for homeland security and safety) in Paris, which in future will play a decisive role in the development of safety technology.

Led by Prof. Birgit Hartz (teaching field: traffic planning and technology), around 30 students from the FH Münster visited the crash test facility last week. Besides a tour of the crash facility and a lecture on the current scope of CTS, together with managing partner Dipl.-Ing. P. Schimmelpfennig the students were able to be present live at a crash test. From the field of accident reconstruction and under the direction of Dipl.-Ing. R. Bührman, an oncoming traffic collision at around 100 km/h was carried out.