Mechanical engineering industry
SP provides wide-ranging technical support for manufacturing industry. In addition to technical evaluation and research, we supply services in the fields of certification and calibration.SP assists the industry through its expertise in the fields of environmental resistance, life length technology, strength of materials, shock and collision processes, vibration and fatigue.
We are also active in fields such as personal safety and personal protective equipment, crash safety, child safety and safety in the transport of hazardous goods.
The Machinery Directive regulates the safety of persons in relation to machinery. The SP Group has some of Sweden's foremost specialists in inspection and risk assessment of machinery and production lines, as well as in evaluation of the safety of control systems for machinery.
Materials technology is a wide working area, with different disciplines for different materials. SP possesses expertise in the mechanical properties and damage and failure mechanisms of metallic materials (strength, fatigue), polymer materials (plastics and rubber) and several other materials, such as rock, concrete and wood.