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Automotive Test Systems

Sierra Instruments

Industrial Design, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial

Background and Challenges

Sierra’s automotive test division, known as Sierra-CP, is a global engine, vehicle, and emissions test company tasked Nectar with creating a common industrial design language, look, and feel for its emerging, best-in-class Automotive Test Systems products.

 
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Creating a Common Design Language and Look for Automotive Test Systems

With roots in high-performance precision measurement and control instrumentation for industries as diverse as scientific research, semiconductor, wastewater treatment, iron and steel, clean energy, aerospace, biotech, and automotive, Sierra operates from more than 150 locations in over 50 countries around the world.

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Making Six Different Products into One Industrial Design Family

Nectar undertook the challenge of creating a common industrial design language, look, and feel for Sierra’s six Automotive Test Systems products, including Sierra’s Datalogging Cabinet Bank, BG3 Engine Emissions Cabinet, Heat Pak/SootTrak Module Engine Soot Measurement Enclosure, CAHU Cabinet, FuelTrak Fuel Flow Meter, and AirTrak Air Flow Meter. While Sierra’s Automotive Test Systems are best-in-class, they differ greatly in configuration, capabilities, and price, ranging in cost from $20,000 to $200,000. Nectar faced the test of developing a common industrial design language, look, and feel for products that are truly different in form, function, and scope.