NVH target management closes the product evaluation loop

Traditionally, organizing and executing jury testing for sound quality target setting, and subsequent subsystem target allocation development, has been a time-consuming exercise. Faced with time pressures, engineers sometimes settle for subjective targets, which can lead to confusion and disagreement late in development over what is a 'good' NVH (noise, vibration and harshness) result. Jaguar Cars approached this problem with a goal to profile the character of the Jaguar sound, thereby capturing the essence of the product's 'personality', the Jaguar DNA.