ZF Launches Innovative Brake Actuator Platform Securing First Award from Major Commercial Vehicle Manufacturer
- Using an innovative new platform approach, ZF’s proven brake actuator technology lays foundation for safe truck, bus and trailer braking maneuvers while optimizing cost effectiveness for OEMs.
- Supporting its integrated safety roadmap, ZF is further powering its global market leadership in commercial vehicle braking and brake control technology.
- Leading OEM becomes first customer to adopt ZF’s new platform on its range of trucks and buses.
ZF has announced the launch of an innovative new brake actuator platform. Using a platform approach for the first time, ZF’s fourth-generation brake actuator technology offers significant safety and cost efficiency benefits for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). ZF has already signed a long-term agreement with a major OEM based in Europe to equip its medium and heavy-duty trucks and buses with ZF’s latest brake chamber range.
EVP, President EMEA with ZF’s Commercial Vehicle Control Systems division, Nick Rens, said:Delivering the highest safety and quality standards, our new brake actuator platform provides significant performance and efficiency advantages for OEMs, including cost and variant reduction. Securing our first customer award from a leading OEM is clear validation of our approach. Having sold more than 70 million brake actuators worldwide, this innovation will further build on our global market leadership position as a trusted OEM partner with almost four decades’ mastery of brake actuation technology.
Our new brake actuator platform is a powerful example of how ZF creatively innovates core products to enhance them for customers.
Providing value-added differentiation for OEMs world-wide, ZF’s brake chamber range with innovative platform approach supports all types of trucks, buses and trailers. The redesign builds on WABCO’s proven brake actuation technology with a rigorous focus on design-to-cost. Offering OEMs significant cost savings, the platform enables economies of scale through standardization. This includes a reduction of variants by up to 27% and by up to 23% fewer parts as well as associated maintenance cost savings. Requiring less space and offering greater mounting flexibility, component sizes and weights have also been lowered. Further maximizing cost effectiveness, the enhanced quality and robustness of the technology helps improve reliability and contributes to optimized vehicle uptime.
This article was originally published by ZF Friedrichshafen AG.
