MTS Announces New Products at the Society of Automotive Engineers World Conference

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., March 5

MTS Systems Corporation introduced a wide range of new products yesterday at the SAE 2002 World Congress in Detroit. These include a new controller for physical testing, a telemetry feature for the company's widely accepted SWIFT® wheel force transducer family, a new, high frequency physical simulation system and integrated engineering solutions developed by the SmartSim Community members.

MTS products announced include:

-- FlexTest(TM) SE, the latest addition to MTS's family of controllers, is a digital device specifically developed for automotive testing applications employing servohydraulic actuators. FlexTest SE was designed to be simple, easy to use, cost effective, yet versatile enough to be easily upgraded for more advanced applications. It can perform a wide variety of tests on its own, or can be linked to a PC to monitor and control simulation tests making it particularly useful in vehicle component testing. -- AccuPhase(TM), a telemetry feature for SWIFT wheel force transducers, offers users a wireless data acquisition capability for those applications where the protruding equipment of the standard SWIFT is not acceptable, such as heavy traffic areas or off road usage. AccuPhase telemetry provides SWIFT users with the best of both analog and digital data transmission. AccuPhase telemetry provides non-contact data transmission, yet produces high quality accurate data with nearly zero transfer time delay. -- Series 353 High Frequency Multi-Axial Simulation Table MAST(TM) capable of frequency ranges reaching 500 hertz. This new system was formally released for sale in Japan last month and now gains worldwide availability. The physical system, when coupled with MTS advanced software RPC Pro and I-DEAS Pro software, is targeted at resolving a broad array of design validation issues in component durability as well as noise and vibration and performance attributes.

The SmartSim Community, a joint development and marketing initiative of MTS Systems Corp., Mechanical Dynamics, Inc. , and nCode International, introduced a number of co-developed products that further advance the state of integrated engineering solutions for vehicle development. These tools, hardware and software for physical, virtual, and analytical testing and evaluation methods, dramatically accelerate the development and validation of virtual prototypes. Among the auto companies taking advantage of these new tools are DaimlerChrysler and The Fraunhofer Institute for Durability, both in Germany, and Hyundai Motors, Korea, along with other major automakers. The co-developed products include:

-- MTS Component EDM(TM) release 1.3 which generates empirical dynamic mathematic models compatible with MDI ADAMS(R) release 12.0 -- MTS RPC(R) Pro release 3.0 embedding more extensive fatigue technologies from nCode International -- Mechanical Dynamics Inc. introduced ADAMS/Durability 12.0. -- nCode International introduced FeFatique 5.0.

For more information about The SmartSim Community, visit http://www.smartsim.org

MTS Systems Corporation is the world leader in the supply of computer-based testing and simulation systems designed to rapidly determine the mechanical behavior of materials and structures helping customers accelerate and improve their design, development, and manufacturing processes. Products also include modeling and test analysis software, control instrumentation products for automating manufacturing processes, and consulting services. Headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minn., MTS had 2,200 employees and revenue of $397 million for the fiscal year ended September 2001. For more information, visit http://www.mts.com