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RS Technologies, Germany's CAESAR DatenSysteme Form Wheel-Load Measurement Joint Venture in North America

5 December 2000

RS Technologies, Germany's CAESAR DatenSysteme Form Wheel-Load Measurement Joint Venture in North America

    FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich.--Dec. 5, 2000--RS Technologies and CAESAR DatenSysteme of Munich, Germany, have formed a North American joint venture to engineer and market CAESAR's sophisticated data acquisition equipment for vehicle testing on a wide range of automobiles, buses and trucks.
    "CAESAR's advanced technology `MOPS' signal processing systems fits very well with our capabilities in the development of wheel-force transducers," says RS Technologies founder and president Ralph Shoberg. "We're looking forward to a very exciting and successful teaming with CAESAR."
    The RS/CAESAR joint venture will provide an easy-to-use and highly accurate wheel load testing system for the world market. It is designed for a range of vehicles, from compact cars through light trucks.
    "It'll only take 20 minutes for a technician to set up our wheel load measurement system," Shoberg says. "RS Technologies' wheel force transducers will continuously feed back vital data to the CAESAR system; the technician taking the `test drive' will be able to monitor and record all important parameters. Excitational road load factors -- forces and torques -- will be continuously and accurately recorded."
    Other CAESAR test software and systems, including new telemetry steering wheels, are available through the joint venture.
    CAESAR DatenSysteme was founded in 1986 by a group of four engineers experienced in the field of data acquisition and analysis technology. The company today is a leading supplier of measurement systems for mobile vehicle testing.
    RS Technologies, founded in 1991, is a supplier of a wide range of precision transducers, threaded fastener technology and automated product testing systems for the measurement and verification of torque. Its founder and president, Ralph Shoberg, developed the first rotary torque transducer electronic package in 1968.