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Under the auspices of the European Accident Research Association (EVU), last week in Tata (Hungary), the Vehicle Expert Seminar took place. With the invitation from Mr. Köfalvi Gyula, P. Schimmelpfennig held a lecture on certified vehicle restraint systems for heavy goods vehicles.

From the 16th November 2018, the AUTOVISION museum in Altlußheim (near Hockenheim) will be showing a new special exhibition on the theme „driving safety“. Also present will be the Biofidelic-Dummy in the form of a skeleton, a complete standard dummy and a half/half show-purpose dummy. The special exhibition is set to run until the end of May 2019. Come along and take a look!

Last Thursday, the CTS crash department had visitors from Japan. CTS were very pleased that the entire team from Japan came specially for this spectacular crash test commission.

This week the 18th AACHEN INTERDISCIPLINARY TRANSPORT CONGRESS took place at the RWTH Aachen. The Symposium, which was organised by the expert office’ Dr. Möhler + Dr. Görtz, was supported by CTS. Peter Schimmelpfennig presented the Biofidelic Dummy and the latest crash tests from accident reconstruction.

As an innovative company in the area of load securing, HS-Schoch has developed an underride guard that can saves lives in the case of an emergency. The company, based in Lauchheim (Baden-Württemberg), won the European transport prize for their underride guard SL1000. The underride guard celebrated its premiere at the IAA in Hannover. CTS as a competent partner in industrial pre development, would like to congratulate HS-Schoch on their award.

Also this year we are represented at Security Essen 2018. Take a look at our stand (Hall 7 G36). We are looking forward to your visit.

Around 300 participants from 11 countries were guest at the crash test facility this week. Whilst 30 exhibitors from the field of anti-terrorism barriers used the presentation space in the crash test hall, the participants were guest in the new CTS event hall. In a modern industrial setting here, lectures on current issues from the area of counter-terrorism were presented. Besides, there was no shortage on practical crash tests. During the two seminar days, the CTS-team led by test manager Ralf Bührmann conducted three crash tests, two of which were performed under standard conditions.

Five spectacular crash tests were performed exclusively for this year’s experts seminar. Around 100 participants from the field of accident reconstruction were along with the highly informative lectures certainly the highlight of the expert seminar, which has been held for the seventh time now. Besides classic rear-end collisions, all participants were able to impress themselves with the characteristics of the biofidelic crash test dummies which are produced in-house in the CTS dummy lab. These were also extensively tested in a motorcycle crash and in a pedestrian crash test. Among others present were William (Rusty) Haight (Collision Safety Institute) and Michael DiTallo (Northwestern University) from the USA, who amusingly and informatively accompanied the seminar. We would like to thank all the speakers sincerely and we look forward already to the Expert Seminar 2019.

Münsters economy development, the Wirtschaftsförderung Münster, were guest and hosted their series-event “Business Breakfast” at the crash facility. Around 130 management staff from the Münsterland region were able to enjoy breakfast in the crash hall after introductory words by Mr. Dr. Robbers (Management of Business Development Münster) and then follow the remarks of Dipl.-Ing. P. Schimmelpfennig, who presented all facets of the crash test centre and in particular the biofidelic dummy. Afterwards, was a spectacular crash test for all guests to see, before heading back to work around 10 a.m.

CTS is happy to present more than 50 new crash tests in the database. With immediate effect, new crash tests from Axa / Winterthur, AZT and AGU are available for download. Many of the crash tests were carried out with brand-new vehicles using the latest state-of-the-art measurement technology and prepared specially for the CTS-database, including many new EES-tests and rear-end collisions.

At this year's PraxisConference Pedestrian Protection at the BASt in Bergisch Gladbach, the CTS-team were present with the Biofidelic dummies. Managing Partner Peter Schimmelpfennig presented all innovations and further developments of the dummies produced in Münster. A highlight at this year's event was the crash tests conducted under the direction of test manager Ralf Bührmann. Bührmann and his team crashed three times. Thus, all visitors were able to witness live how the Biofidelic dummy behaves during a collision. The results will be published soon in the VKU.

This week Mr. Dipl.-Ing. M. Eng. Marco Görtz and around 20 students from the RWTH Aachen visited us. To begin with was a short presentation on the areas of CTS, before heading on, together with the dummy laboratory manager Dr. rer. nat. Gerrit Reglitz, for a guided tour of the new Biofidelic Dummy production facility. The detailed tour of the company was rounded off with a tour of the extended crash test site and ended, as usual, with a live crash test (lorry vs car).

This week, the company Henkel was present as guest and used the crash site for a product launch. Over 100 participants from seven countries attended the product presentation and were able to see a live crash test. Furthermore, in small groups, the dummy manufactory could be visited.

Automotive Testing Expo Europe 2018 is one of the leading exhibitions in the automotive industry. Over 400 exhibitors are currently represented at the exhibition centre in Stuttgart. Also present – of course – is CTS. Visit us at our stand ? 1432 in hall 10. There our experts are presenting the new Biofidelic Dummies. We have brought several fully functional dummies as well as dummy-skeletons from our dummy laboratory. Dipl.-Ing. P. Schimmelpfennig and technician K. Schulte are looking forward to your visit.

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More than 1000 experts from the vehicle safety industry sector visit yearly the international trade fair “Safety Week” in Würzburg (15 – 17.05). Also present is Crashtest-service, your competent service provider when it comes to crash tests and dummy construction. Not only is Dipl.-Ing. Peter Schimmelpfennig present at our exhibition stand but also the new Biofidelic crash test dummies await you. We look forward to your visit and interesting conversations (stand number 45).

The German national group of the European Association for accident research and accident analysis (EVU) is a guest at the crash premises. The EVU uses the facilities of the crash test centre for their vehicle electronics work group.

Around 20 members of the Automobile Press Club were present at CTS for a company tour last Friday. Besides a tour of the company premises, a short presentation given by Dipl.-Ing. P. Schimmelpfennig on the range of action and current topics of CTS took place. To end the visit was a high-speed rear impact collision – car vs. truck – in which the participants were all impressively convinced by the acting forces of a collision.

Two days long, the crash test centre was in the hands of the Association of Independent Motor Vehicle Experts. Saturday was used to follow several guest lectures and to visit the exhibition stands which were set up in the hall. What’s more, also on Saturdays programme was a crash test – a crossroads collision at approx 80 km/h. The local fire department took advantage and used this directly as an exercise for training purposes and rescued the trapped vehicle occupants in front of nearly 100 seminar participants. On Sunday, the general meeting of the VKS took place in the smaller seminar room.

To start off the seminar season 2018 here at CTS, the 7th judicial seminar for accident reconstruction took place. Around 90 specialist lawyers, judges and police officers were able to follow a wide-ranging lecture programme presented by Schimmelpfennig + Becke. Of course, as per usual at every CTS-Seminar, the participants were able to watch a high-speed crash test from our secured spectators grand-stand. The new Biofidelic Dummy from our own production was crashed. Further information about the dummy can be found here.