Expert Articles & Insights from EDAG Testing
This blog provides a structured insight into the world of EDAG Testing. It features selected expert articles, reports and practical insights that illustrate how testing at EDAG is understood as a connecting element between idea and reality.
The articles cover a wide range of modern testing disciplines – from environmental simulation and electromagnetic compatibility to electrical and electronic testing, measurement robotics and durability testing, as well as vehicle safety, material analytics and customized test systems. Rather than focusing on individual tests, the content highlights holistic validation strategies across the entire product development process.
All articles are provided as concise PDF publications, offering a well-founded overview of methods, technologies and competencies that enable EDAG to make products safer, more efficient and ready for the market across industries. The blog is aimed at developers, decision-makers and technical experts who want to understand how modern engineering testing is designed and implemented today.
VIRTUAL TESTING
Modern chassis systems must deliver far more than stability. They shape comfort, agility, and the overall character of a vehicle. Meeting these demands has long depended on costly prototypes and time-intensive test cycles.
At EDAG’s Zero Prototype Lab in Wolfsburg, this process takes a decisive leap forward. Here, Patrick Pölz, Vice President, and his team combine high-fidelity simulation with real vehicle dynamics data to achieve a level of realism traditionally reserved for physical prototypes.
Their approach enables faster, more precise, and more sustainable development—before hardware even exists.
With Europe’s largest dynamic simulator, reproducible virtual test scenarios, and an integrated development workflow, the team opens new possibilities for performance tuning, comfort evaluation, and holistic chassis optimization.
Want to understand how virtual chassis tuning is reshaping development?
LIGHTING EXCELLENCE UNVEILED
They influence comfort, safety, and the character of a vehicle. As technologies advance, the demands on development and validation are becoming more complex than ever.
At EDAG’s Lighting & Visibility Competence Center in Wolfsburg, Tibor Giesen leads a team that seamlessly connects digital development with physical validation. Together, they cover the full spectrum:
Complete lighting development, simulation, end-to-end validation, and prototype-free testing—ensuring every system performs reliably under real-world conditions.
From virtual concepts to full-vehicle photogoniometry and driving-simulator benchmarking, their interdisciplinary approach brings clarity, precision, and consistency to every detail.
Bright. Precise. Proven.
Curious how EDAG enables efficient, precise, and future-ready lighting development?
BATTERY SAFETY BEYOND LIMITS
As battery technologies evolve, safety becomes an increasingly complex topic—shaped by chemistry, design, and system integration.
Testing is no longer just about passing standards. It’s about understanding how batteries behave under real-world conditions.
At EDAG’s Battery Testing Center in Ingolstadt, a multidisciplinary team led by Heiko Kremer, Head of Department, addresses this challenge with a holistic approach: combining deep HV expertise, accredited testing processes, and state-of-the-art facilities for cells, modules, and full systems.
Their mission: to make battery safety measurable, comparable, and certifiable across applications.
Experience across automotive, industrial, and energy sectors shows that flexible and comparable testing methods are key to understanding and improving battery safety in real environments.
FROM SOUND TO SIGNATURE?
Did you know that even a tonal peak at just 1–3 kHz—within the most sensitive range of the human ear—can change how a product is perceived, influence comfort, and impact buying decisions?
In product development, acoustics is often reduced to “noise reduction.”
But sound is more than the absence of noise. It is a signature of quality, comfort, and brand identity.
Acoustic issues rarely announce themselves—they emerge in customer perception, test results, and market feedback.
Compliance with acoustic standards is the baseline, not the finish line.
At EDAG’s NVH Testing & Engineering, we go beyond decibel limits.
By combining precise measurement, advanced simulation, and cross-industry expertise, we help shape the acoustic DNA of vehicles, machines, and complex systems—from the first prototype to full production.
Led by Tobias Krebs, our NVH team covers the entire product lifecycle. We ensure that how it sounds matches how it should feel, making sound a measurable and controllable quality factor.
SAFETY IN FOCUS
From prevention to protection!
Modern vehicles rely on active systems for accident prevention and passive systems for damage mitigation. At EDAG, both are equally important.
In Wolfsburg, active safety functions such as AEB, lane support, blind spot detection, and speed assist are tested using robotics, self-driving vehicles, and state-of-the-art measurement technology—particularly with regard to vulnerable road users.
As Jan-David Wagner, Team Leader Active Safety & CAE, explains: “We enable a wide range of approval and consumer tests.”
In Munich, the focus is on passive safety: from airbag and child protection tests to dummy measurements using our own HPMtae system.
“We offer hardware testing and digital re-engineering for passive safety from a single source. This enables EDAG to take on complete test campaigns,” explains Ingo Jatzek, Team Leader Vehicle Safety.
With this holistic approach, EDAG combines prevention and protection—for maximum safety on the road.
You can find further insights in our testing magazine.
THE POWER OF ROBOTIC TESTING
Precision, reproducibility, and efficiency. Three key challenges define the future of vehicle and product development.
Robotic testing is one way to address these challenges in a more reliable and structured manner.
At EDAG, measurement robotics are used to recreate realistic user interactions. Touch displays, haptic buttons, or entire vehicle doors can be tested over thousands of cycles.
Different loads, varying environments, and endurance scenarios make weak points visible that would otherwise remain hidden for too long.
It’s not about replacing human know-how, but about adding a tool that delivers constant accuracy—even under extreme conditions.
Experts like Stephan Rieger, Team Leader at Testing, ensure that robotics are applied in a meaningful way, helping to improve quality assurance step by step in automotive and beyond.
E/E TESTING FOR EVERY INDUSTRY
From the onboard network to the battery, from control units to high-voltage systems. At EDAG, our E-Labs validate what mobility today—and tomorrow—relies on.
With modular test systems tailored to individual requirements, advanced equipment, and a team of more than 75 specialists, we ensure electrical and electronic components perform reliably under real-world conditions.
Our labs in Wolfsburg, Fulda, Ingolstadt, Böblingen, Munich, and Puebla (Mexico) cover the full spectrum: from single components to complex system tests, including custom test rigs.
More than 500 power supplies, over 300 climate chambers, and high-voltage systems in the triple-digit kW range ensure readiness for nearly any challenge. Safety is built in—for both our teams and the components under test.
What began in automotive now supports industries ranging from aerospace to medical technology, energy, rail, marine, and construction—wherever electrical safety and reliability are critical.
We provide the complete testing process from a single source: future-proof, flexible, and efficient.
