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Automotive Testing Expo - EMEA

Stuttgart, Germany
May 20, 2025 - May 22, 2025

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Propulsion & Powertrain

Industry-leading assembly, balance and test solutions

Delivering unmatched safety and performance

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A propulsion & powertrain partner that does it all

Integrated and advanced assembly, balance and test solutions

We’re committed to guiding our customers through the entire product lifecycle – from ideation to commercialization, with safety and quality top of mind. With over 70 years of industry experience, Ascential Technologies excels at test and measurement. We ensure each vehicle’s propulsion and powertrain components are safe, reliable, and perform as intended, delivering on the safety-focused brand promises that consumers expect and depend on.

Success starts with the right partner

We’re committed to partnering with our customers through the entire product lifecycle – from ideation to commercialization, with safety and quality top of mind.

Working with one assembly, balance, and testing partner can help alleviate costly issues, such as assembly failures after a vehicle has rolled off the line. We simplify supply chain logistics and can reduce your time to market by streamlining efficiencies and being a one-stop shop for all your needs. Our technical competencies and experience ensure each vehicle’s propulsion and powertrain components are safe, reliable, and perform as intended, delivering on the safety-focused brand promises that your consumers expect and depend on.

Furthermore, we provide service and support that goes the distance — we never walk away. Ascential Care is more than just a customer service platform — it’s a promise — a promise to stand with you, tackle challenges head-on, and deliver real solutions that drive lasting results.

Leverage a partnership that can become the relentless force that keeps your programs surging forward — in design, on the line, and long after launch.

Why use one partner?

Enables reduction in the number of parts and scrappage rates
Reduces quality issues
Speeds up time to market by shortening timeline to start new production lines
Simplifies project coordination with one vs. multiple supplier partners
Reduces costs associated with project management, procurement and logistics
Minimizes problems arising and end-of-line failures
Increases efficiency
Improves integration, eliminates duplication
Increases assembly line agility
Optimizes how space is used on the plant floor

End-to-end powertrain & propulsion capabilities

Solutions for your vehicle, regardless of its energy source.

For dozens of years, Burke Porter (an Ascential Technologies brand) has specialized in delivering cutting-edge ABT solutions for powertrain and propulsion systems including engines, axles and e-mobility systems. We can handle the entire end-to-end solution for every single piece on a drivetrain – right down to the wheel and tire marriage. Our solutions today span ICE, hybrid and BEV vehicles.

Some of the many hybrid vehicle systems and components we support

We advance innovation across every vehicle and have created tests that excel in validating hybrid applications.

Brake systems

E-motor and inverter

ADAS

Front drive module

Battery systems

Rear drive module

Tire and wheel

Battery systems

Brake systems

ADAS

Engine test

Power take-off unit (PTO)

Tire and wheel

Driveshaft

Tire and wheel

Front and rear axle

Some of the internal combustion engine systems and components we support

We have significant experience supporting traditional ICE-powered applications.

Some of the battery-electric vehicle systems and components we support

Our team of engineers are well versed in all powertrain and propulsion types, with cutting-edge solutions that are ready to assist in the rapid growth of BEVs across the industry.

Brake systems

Front and rear e-axle

Battery systems

Front and rear drive module

Tire and wheel

E-motor and inverter

ADAS

A customized, turnkey approach

End-to-end capabilities that match your needs

Ascential Technologies offers completely customized, turnkey solutions that better integrate our customers’ propulsion products and systems. And we can deliver a fully integrated ABT offering OR provide a la carte service.

We have the most comprehensive end-to-end capability of assembly, balance and test tools, equipment, and solutions on the market to meet ICE, hybrid and BEV needs and support components, subassemblies and even entire vehicles.

Our assembly, balance, and testing approach is highly customized, including engineered products to order, software integration into manufacturing production systems, and flexibility with specific elements incorporated into an assembly line. Our methodologies encompass software, tools, test stands and support to deliver the ultimate offering to customers in the following markets:
Passenger vehicle (OEMs & Tier 1s)
Commercial vehicle & off-highway
Agricultural vehicles
Aftermarket & performance
ASSEMBLY

Drive success with state-of-the-art assembly lines

Flexible equipment on a global scale

Propulsion parts and modules are continuously growing in complexity, making adaptable and intelligent assembly line equipment more critical. With traditional approaches that lack digital capabilities, customers may experience assembly line programs that limit productivity, efficiency, data, quality and traceability. We have a broad testing approach emphasizing modular and agile automated systems that best position our customers for accurate gauging, measurement and data acquisition.

Having the right mix of state-of-the-art assembly line equipment is essential to high customer satisfaction, shorter delivery times and cost efficiencies. Ascential Technologies delivers these results through its tenured precision experience and industry lessons learned, library of proven concepts for assembly stations and modules, expertise across all propulsion systems and global scale.

In addition to advanced systems, we take a nimble, error-proofing approach, ensuring that all of the individual parts meet the requirements ahead of, during and post-assembly. And we’re able to catch errors earlier in the assembly processing and make real-time adjustments as needed. For example, with our gauge-based “dynamic gauging” assembly, we build with the allowable tolerances and adjust within the acceptable range dynamically.

With our automated assembly systems, we can:

Enhance flexibility in the assembly line enabling different variants of platforms to be produced on the same line
Future-proof lines
Integrate gauge stations for in-process measurements to ensure higher quality parts
Automate processes
Align assembly and product priorities to meet strategic performance targets for production
Ensure consistency across all sites
BALANCE

Taking a balanced approach to production

Precise, universal balancing for the road ahead

Balancing plays an important role in the accuracy and quality of key vehicle components. Ascential Technologies offers a full range of high specification horizontal, vertical, compact and custom designed balancing machines that cater to every industry and can feature measurement-only software or include the option of manual or automatic unbalance correction. Our precision balancing machines increase your production efficiency and reduce operating costs.

A core feature is our best-in-class interface software, WinBal, which offers exceptional functionality, simplicity and ease of use. It includes an error-proofing setup and in-process validation, methods for compensating process inaccuracies, intelligent correction programs, comprehensive system self-diagnostics and more.

We also incorporate capabilities for providing balancing insights that enable improvements at earlier stages of the assembly process.

Ultimately, with Ascential Technologies’ expertise and approach, you’ll gain:

Lower test failures at end-of-line
A better customer experience
Reduced warranty claims
Higher efficiency for assembly
Faster speed to market
TEST

Easily pass your next test with Ascential Technologies

Complete testing technologies portfolio for all your propulsion and powertrain needs

Accurate, reliable testing to ensure vehicle safety is one of the most mission-critical pieces to the entire manufacturing process. Unfortunately, most propulsion and powertrain tests have limited intel. Without the appropriate insight, customers are unable to accurately predict quality issues and forecast future problems, which can lead to higher scrappage rates as well as labor, energy and material costs.

We have the solution.

We believe that having single, data-driven and integrated machines that can run various tests can conserve costs while substantially decreasing end-of-line failures and the floor space needed at plants. Our technical and cross-functional expertise, cutting-edge test equipment and integration capabilities allow us to swiftly identify and troubleshoot part-related issues in ways that others can’t, allowing us to deliver higher efficiency, higher productivity and better customer experience.

Our test technology supports:

ADAS
Axles
Belts
E-drives
E-motors
Hybrid modules
Inverters
Manual & automated transmissions
Noise, vibration & harshness
Spin testers
Transfer cases
And more

Elevating support, Enhancing value.

Ascential Care brings together our top technicians across multiple disciplines to support our global customers. Our Ascential Care customer service platform ensures proximity and responsiveness, allowing us to adapt swiftly while leveraging our deep expertise to meet ever-evolving customer needs.

Analytics that deliver timely insights

As part of our end-to-end support offering, customers have new opportunities to collect, mine and measure data through our Ascentialytics platform. This connected, performance management solution for remote monitoring and diagnostics, records equipment data and gives actionable information. Input from this effective tool can significantly impact unplanned downtime, machine health, needed repairs and more.