30 Years Of Expertise in High-End Automotive Testing: Shandong Zhengneng Leads A New Era Of Domestic Substitution

30 Years of Expertise in High-End Automotive Testing: Shandong Zhengneng Leads a New Era of Domestic Substitution

From breaking import monopolies to filling industry gaps, Zhengneng Equipment drives the upgrade of China's automotive testing industry with core technologies

YANTAI, China – As the automotive industry undergoes a comprehensive transformation toward new energy, intelligence, and connectivity, automotive testing equipment-a critical link in ensuring vehicle safety-is experiencing profound technological change. Shandong Zhengneng Automotive Testing Equipment Co., Ltd., a national high-tech enterprise based in Yantai, Shandong Province, has leveraged over 30 years of dedicated R&D and continuous innovation in automotive testing technology to become a leading domestic supplier of high-end testing equipment, successfully replacing core technologies of high-end test lines from the three major imported brands of Germany, the United States, and Japan.

From Technology Follower to Domestic Substitution: A Story of Catch‑Up and Breakthrough

Shandong Zhengneng Automotive Testing Equipment Co., Ltd. (wholly-owned subsidiary: Yantai Guangyu Auto Equipment Technology Co., Ltd.), established in 2017 with a registered capital of RMB 30 million and a site area of 15,000 square meters, traces its roots to Yantai Guangyu Auto Equipment Technology Co., Ltd., founded in 2001. Since its inception, the company has adhered to a development path combining independent R&D with the absorption of advanced foreign technologies, focusing on the R&D, production, and sales of high-end automotive testing equipment. It is a national high-tech enterprise, a provincial specialized and new enterprise, and a provincial gazelle enterprise.

In terms of core technologies, Zhengneng possesses complete independent intellectual property rights for automotive test lines, encompassing three major segments: mechanical chassis, hardware electronic circuit boards, and software control programs. The company holds a total of 65 intellectual properties, including 4 invention patents, 35 utility model patents, and 26 software copyrights. The invention patents for automotive ABS brake testing (granted in 2007) and automotive four-wheel alignment testing (granted in 2008) filled the gaps in China's independent intellectual property in this category of automotive testing equipment.

Scientific and Technological Achievement Evaluation at Internationally Advanced Level

In October 2021, the China High-tech Industrialization Research Association convened an evaluation meeting in Beijing for the "Comprehensive Vehicle Safety and Emission High‑Speed Operating Condition Test System" project jointly developed by Shandong Zhengneng and Yantai Guangyu. The evaluation committee concluded that the project possesses independent intellectual property and that its technology has reached an internationally advanced level, unanimously approving the achievement evaluation. The system, through a distributed energy and water temperature synchronous motor design scheme, realizes simulation functions for road brake testing of two‑wheel‑drive and four‑wheel‑drive vehicles under various speeds, solving the problems that traditional test systems could not address-such as dynamic braking force, emergency braking above 40 km/h, ABS slip rate, braking deceleration, braking dynamic stability, and braking coordination time. Additionally, the system innovatively integrates technologies for high‑speed comprehensive braking, collision warning, environmental inspection, and road test methods, converting qualitative tests into quantitative measurements.

Core Product Portfolio: From Non‑Contact Four‑Wheel Alignment to ADAS Calibration

Zhengneng's main products cover the complete range of new‑vehicle high‑end test lines, including non‑contact dynamic four‑wheel aligners, comprehensive drum test stands, gantry headlight testers, ADAS calibration systems, rain rooms and blow‑dry rooms, safety electrical inspection equipment, and automotive R&D chassis dynamometers. The company's product line spans five major series with more than 80 specifications and models, including comprehensive drum test stands, non‑contact four‑wheel aligners, high‑speed ABS brake testers, axle weighing testers, and slip‑plate side‑slip testers.

In the field of non‑contact four‑wheel alignment, Zhengneng employs original German‑imported Visicon dPP sensors, combined with self‑developed 3D vision measurement and digital image recognition technology, to achieve a "push‑to‑measure" dynamic non‑contact measurement mode, completely revolutionizing the traditional static contact‑based inspection process.

In the ADAS calibration field, the company's self‑developed high‑precision optically‑guided ADAS calibration and positioning system integrates 3D optical positioning, laser ranging, and image recognition technology, enabling precise calibration and resetting of full‑system ADAS for various passenger vehicles, new energy intelligent connected vehicles, and commercial vehicles. The equipment is fully compatible with mainstream domestic, joint‑venture, and imported vehicle models, covering all types of vehicle sensors including cameras, millimeter‑wave radar, and LiDAR.

From Low‑Speed Compliance to High‑Speed Safety: Pioneering Technology That Fills an Industry Gap

Addressing the critical industry pain point-where traditional testing verifies safety only under low‑speed conditions while real accidents occur at high speeds-Zhengneng has taken the lead in developing the Medium‑ and High‑Speed Comprehensive Safety Inspection and Monitoring Technology for Vehicles, filling an industry gap and achieving internationally advanced standards. Its high‑speed ABS brake tester simulates vehicle braking performance and safety under high‑speed driving conditions, fundamentally solving the technical bottleneck of traditional testing equipment that can "only test at low speed, not verify at high speed." Furthermore, the company's Driverless Intelligent Chassis Performance Test System and Vehicle External Perception and Automatic Safety Function Effectiveness Test System lay a solid technological foundation for testing in the autonomous driving era.

Preferred by Major OEMs, Accelerating Global Expansion

Backed by strong technical capabilities and product quality, Zhengneng has become a supplier to leading domestic OEMs including Changan, FAW, Geely, Dongfeng, GAC, BAIC, JAC, Chery, and Hozon NETA. Beyond its strong domestic market position, the company has followed Chinese vehicles to global markets-having undertaken overseas high‑end test line projects for Changan Automobile's Thailand branch, GAC Motor's Myanmar facility, JAC's Middle East operations, Chery's Russia plant, and NETA's Indonesia facility. Some automotive testing equipment has obtained EU safety quality certification and has been exported to more than ten countries including the Philippines, Uruguay, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan.

In April 2026, Zhengneng successfully won the bid for Dongfeng Motor Corporation's "New End‑of‑Line Logistics Unmanned Delivery Vehicle Mobile Test Line" project, further confirming the company's leading position in autonomous driving testing technologies.

Leading the High‑Quality Development of the Automotive Testing Industry

From breaking import monopolies to filling industry gaps, from serving major domestic OEMs to expanding globally, Shandong Zhengneng Automotive Testing Equipment Co., Ltd. is driving continuous upgrading of China's automotive testing industry with core technologies. A company representative stated that Zhengneng will continue to uphold its corporate mission-"Lead the world's testing technology revolution, completely subvert backward testing equipment technology, and create value for society"-and will persistently increase R&D investment in frontier fields such as autonomous driving testing and medium‑ and high‑speed comprehensive safety inspection, contributing "Zhengneng power" to the transformation of China from a "major automotive country" to an "automotive powerhouse."

About Shandong Zhengneng Automotive Testing Equipment Co., Ltd.

Shandong Zhengneng Automotive Testing Equipment Co., Ltd., located in Laishan District, Yantai, Shandong Province, is a national high‑tech enterprise integrating R&D, production, and sales of motor vehicle testing equipment, test line network software, and hardware control systems (electronic circuits). Its main products include non‑contact four‑wheel aligners, comprehensive drum test stands, high‑speed ABS brake testers, and ADAS calibration equipment, providing comprehensive solutions for OEM assembly lines, motor vehicle inspection stations, 4S maintenance service centers, and intelligent connected vehicle laboratories. The company is committed to revitalizing China's motor vehicle testing industry through domestic substitution and technological innovation in high‑end automotive testing equipment.

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