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SGS and SGS INSTITUT FRESENIUS are one of Europe‘s largest and most versatile providers of analytics services.
To ensure the success of failure and damage analysis on materials and products, it is absolutely necessary to have sophisticated testing and analysis technology. It must cover different functions and it must be possible to combine these technologies in many different ways at short notice.
The Automotive Business Line has its own highly efficient laboratories. Any further methods that are required are available within SGS INSTITUT FRESENIUS or with reliable and competent cooperation partners. SGS INSTITUT FRESENIUS is one of Europe‘s largest and most versatile providers of analytics services.
In addition to its own specialized laboratories, the Automotive Business Line has exclusive access to practically all relevant modern analysis methods for its problem resolution activities, all of which are naturally supported by high-qualified specialists. For our customers, this is an invaluable benefit: they obtain all analytics and consulting services from one source, regardless of how complex their problem is.
Our range of services
Regularly employed methods:
- Materialography, target preparations, particle separation processes, etc.
- Various mechanical testing processes
- Light microscopy with all modern reflected and transmitted light methods, digital image processing
- Digital scanning electron microscopy (SEM), including ESEM and energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX)
- Real time radioscopy, including 3D tomography
- Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS)
- FT-IR spectroscopy, including ATR and microspectrometry
- X-ray diffractometry (XRD)
- X-ray fluorescence analysis (RFA)
Other methods available
Glow discharge optical emission spectroscopy (GDOES), Auger electron spectrometry (AES), X-ray photoelectron spectrometry (XPS), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), atom emission spectrometry (AES), gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (GC-MS, TDS-GCMS), ion chromatography, ion selective analyses, various chemical and microbiological methods.
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