The 2017 edition of Automotive Testing Expo in Novi, Michigan drew the biggest audience yet, with well over 5,000 attendees coming through the doors over the full three days of the show, highlighting once again how vehicle manufacturers and component suppliers require ever more advanced time compression development technologies, systems and services that still ensure the highest quality products.

With over 315 exhibitors displaying their latest innovations, visitors were rewarded with a multitude of exciting project and investment announcements live on the show floor. Among the unveilings at the Suburban Collection Showplace was a new cost-effective leak detection system by Inficon that uses forming gas in an atmospheric accumulation chamber to detect fluid leaks. The LDS3000 AQ has been designed to bridge the gap between pressure-decay, mass flow and helium-vacuum testing. Suitable for testing fuel lines and small heater cores, it detects smaller leak rates but avoids fluctuations often caused by variations in temperature and humidity, detecting leaks down to
10-5 mbar-l/s.