Close to the Sint-Truiden main manufacturing facility is the
Monroe® Engineering & Technology Center (METC), that performs
suspension system research, development, and testing. METC
was built in 1995 and currently has 165 employees.
Research areas include:
• Mechatronics: Harvesting energy by means of
electro magnetism and developing low cost damper technologies.
• Vehicle Dynamics: Understanding vehicle shock absorber
requirements and component interactions to improve
driving dynamics for proactive and predictive development.
• Predictive Tools: Developing computational tools to accelerate
product development and predict engineering parameters.
• Material Sciences: Researching advances in the material
industries that are relevant to Tenneco such as long fibre
composites, high strength steel, aluminum and joining techniques.
• Human Comfort: Understanding the human neuromuscular system and
defining strategies for enhancing the perception of comfort.
• Adjacent Technologies: Understanding current
and future technologies that could bring added value
to ride performance, such as vision systems.
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