Excellence in Engineering For Over 60 Years
Michigan Scientific Corporation is a Michigan-based engineering firm founded around 1964, specializing in the design and manufacture of precision instrumentation for vehicle testing and research. It engineers slip ring assemblies, wheel force and torque transducers, multi-axis load cells, fiber-optic signal systems, wireless telemetry, and signal conditioning electronics used in automotive, aerospace, agricultural, and heavy equipment R&D. Michigan Scientific also provides measurement system integration, strain gauge services, vehicle instrumentation and data collection, and equipment rental, serving engineering teams at OEMs and test facilities worldwide.
ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accredited calibration (NIST traceable, up to 667 kN force / 203 kN m moment)
Andrew CookVice President
Engineering and fabrication of custom force, torque, and multi-axis load cells for research and development applications across automotive, aerospace, agricultural, and industrial sectors.
Instrument-quality slip rings for continuous rotation signal transfer, rated for unlimited bandwidth and high RPM, used in vehicle testing and industrial rotating equipment.
Fiber-optic-based signal transmission systems for high-bandwidth, EMI/RFI-immune rotating connections on test vehicles and machinery.
Battery-powered wireless transmitters for strain gauges and other sensors, enabling data acquisition on rotating shafts and remote components.
Differential amplifiers, thermocouple amplifiers, remote amplifier control units, and transducer interface electronics for accurate data acquisition.
On-site and in-house strain gauging of structural and mechanical components for deflection, stress, torque, and force measurement, including FEA-guided gauge placement and data acquisition.
End-to-end integration of measurement chains from sensors and transducers through signal conditioning and data acquisition systems.
On-vehicle instrumentation setup, data acquisition, and recording for road load data acquisition (RLDA), durability, vehicle dynamics, and powertrain testing programs.
Component and system testing services including suspension testing, drivetrain torque measurement, and structural analysis.
Short- and long-term rental of wheel force transducer systems and related instrumentation, with on-site setup support.
Free initial consultation on measurement system design, transducer selection, and instrumentation strategy for custom test programs.
Automotive · Research Facilities · Agriculture · Manufacturing · Rail · Robotics · Aerospace
Automotive Research and Development · 2025
Instrumented suspension components including tie rods, ball joints, sway bar links, struts, and dampers to measure individual component forces for durability and dynamics correlation. FEA used to determine optimal strain gauge placement on complex geometry links.
ADAS and Mapping · 2024
Deployed Wheel Pulse Transducers (DMI) on vehicle-based mobile mapping systems to provide GPS-independent distance measurement, integrated with LiDAR and high-resolution cameras using multi-sensor fusion SLAM algorithms for precise 3D geospatial data collection.