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Cranking out cargo
On the waterfront
Tracks forging links: the three-city streetcar
Schaeffler to partner with FG Series
Infinite interaction
Teamwork in the powertrain
Forward-looking Schaeffler technology masters extreme test
AI in the cockpit
The eternal automobile
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Computer mouse, assembly line, and ball mill? How familiar are you with breakthrough innovations?
A hotbed of innovation
Rooms of silence
Sverdrups and olfs? How familiar are you with these exotic units of measurement?
A world of technical wonders
Goodbye hydraulics!
You’ll never walk alone
How many members does a team need?
Inside Schaeffler – how well do you know your way around our company?
Material + machine = forward movement
Think Green
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Innovation boost for green energies
No energy transition without molecule transition
Clean-up fever in the ocean
Next-level city
Greener reckoning
Carbon capture, storage, and utilization – what is possible?
Perfectly connected
Our soil. A treasure trove!
“Efficiency and innovation make us even more sustainable”
Our story highlights in 2023 – how familiar are you with them?
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About a success that didn’t want to be one
Greasing without fear
Machine check with AI
Quo vadis, robotics?
Complex machine operation simplified
The science of chasing criminals
The power of data
Graphics instead of numbers
The world of AI – how familiar are you with it?
Digital Workplace – where we work in the future
Future Life
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Globalization
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Embracing instead of struggling
Frankenstein has resigned
We followed by I – followed by illness?
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Living with (flood)water
Children’s eyes looking into the future
Progress? Sure! But in my back yard?
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Lift off, please!
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A hotbed of innovation
Schaeffler has opened a cutting-edge technology center at its headquarters in Herzogenaurach. Around 90 million euros were invested in the construction of the technology center.
Rooms of silence
Whether in automobiles or machines – noise development and perception decisively affect the impression of quality and the user’s experience. To track down sources of noise, Schaeffler experts retreat into near-absolute silence.
Greasing without fear
Automatic lubrication systems supplying hard to access or hazardous lube points on machines with grease increase work safety and reduce the risk of accidents.
Schaeffler to partner with FG Series
Motion Technology Company Schaeffler is promoting the next generation of motorsport and will equip the new all-electric FG Series championship with e-mobility components on a long-term basis.
Goodbye hydraulics!
Humanoid robots are becoming more powerful, nimble, and agile. Electric motors instead of the previous hydraulic units increasingly operate in their arms and legs. That’s a clearly discernible trend in other industrial applications as well.
Complex machine operation simplified
Schaeffler and Siemens are simplifying complex operation on the shopfloor with the help of artificial intelligence. This makes production more efficient. Read more here.
“Efficiency and innovation make us even more sustainable”
COO Andreas Schick (53) has been responsible for Production, Supply Chain Management and Purchasing at Schaeffler since 2018. In an interview with Schaeffler today, he talks about the sustainability activities undertaken in these areas.
Inside Schaeffler – how well do you know your way around our company?
What does Schaeffler accomplish in the Antarctic? What are Schaeffler’s acoustics experts referring to when talking about NVH? And how many research and development locations does Schaeffler operate worldwide? Test your knowledge in our quiz.
Forward-looking Schaeffler technology masters extreme test
Schaeffler’s steer-by-wire technology has passed another endurance test: Space Drive, a basic technology for autonomous driving, played a key role in a new world altitude record set by Porsche.
“Innovation requires focus and speed”
A dynamic market environment requires a clear focus on future-oriented innovations. In an interview with Schaeffler today, Chief Technology Officer Uwe Wagner (59) explains the structure of Schaeffler’s innovation strategy.
Impeccably round and smooth
Perfectly shaped steel spheres as rolling elements in bearings exhibit variances only in the micrometer range: a manufacturing technology feat whose invention dates back 140 years in 2023.
Wanted: Spoilsports
The premier strategy to prevent machine failure is an intelligent early warning system: condition monitoring. Companies monitor machines from in-house control centers but also deploy their detectives to customer locations for on-site analyses.
No rattling of the cage
Disturbing noise while driving has always gotten on people’s nerves but the issue has massively gained in importance due to the transition from internal combustion engines to quiet electric motors. Schaeffler’s expert Carsten Mohr provides insights.
Every watt counts
How Schaeffler is increasing the range of electric vehicles.
Team up on self-driving shuttles
Schaeffler and VDL plan to jointly develop and produce a new generation of self-driving electric shuttles for public transport.
Science vs. Fiction
Schaeffler’s Automotive CEO Matthias Zink assesses ten propositions about mobility of tomorrow.
The art of making plates
Schaeffler is demonstrating its development capabilities in the field of hydrogen-powered mobility with a new generation of metallic bipolar plates for polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells.
Looking at the future on a car lift
The transition to electric mobility on our roads poses major challenges for garages. Aftermarket CEO Jens Schüler describes how Schaeffler encourages service operations to join the automotive and industrial supplier on the transformation journey.
Logistic Rubik’s Cube
43,252,003,274,489,856,000 – that’s the number of possible turns to solve the famous Rubik’s Cube. The options of the global logistics network are similarly diverse. At Schaeffler, the Transportation Data Cube (TDC) takes care of that.
Schaeffler’s visionaries
How can the transportation sector become more sustainable? And how can Schaeffler accelerate that transformation? Those questions are among the ones that the specialists in Schaeffler’s Advanced Innovation department address and explore.
“The key to sustainability lies on the railroad tracks”
Rail is among the most efficient means of transportation but a lot of its potential remains untapped. An interview about challenges and solutions with Dr. Michael Holzapfel, Senior Vice President Business Unit Rail at Schaeffler.
“We can handle heavy-duty too”
Schaeffler exhibits at the IAA Transportation for the first time: Automotive CEO Matthias Zink provides insights into why Schaeffler's technologies and products are perfect for transforming the transportation industry towards greater sustainability.
“We’re showing a festival of innovations”
For Matthias Zink, the Schaeffler Kolloquium 2022 will be the most spectacular one to be held to date. An interview with the CEO Automotive Technologies about the highlights of the event.
Ghostbusters in freezing cold
Neutrinos are referred to as ghost particles. To track them down, ultrasensitive detectors are set up in extreme locations – for instance in the Antarctic. Read below how Schaeffler helps research scientists with their neutrino experiments.
Multi-talented
It is a key component in a large number of vehicle applications ranging from the drive to the steering system and has a diameter and height of only five centimeters: A brushless direct current motor.
Electric mobility picks up momentum
Electric powertrain technologies are increasingly catching on. A development that clearly affects globally active automotive and industrial supplier Schaeffler as current statistics demonstrate.
The electric revolution of the World Rally Championship
The light has turned green for the hybrid era of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC). Global automotive supplier Schaeffler and its subsidiary Compact Dynamics are playing a pioneering role.
An idea that literally moves
Schaeffler was awarded the innovation in hardware award by the International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) for its GraviKart robotic push trolly solution for the manufacturing industry.
In motion for the last 75 years
It is one of the greatest “Made in Germany” success stories: The global automotive and industrial supplier Schaeffler is celebrating its 75th anniversary today.
From gray to green
Starting in 2025, Schaeffler will be buying 100,000 metric tons (110,000 short tons) of “green” steel per year from a Swedish startup. The steel will be produced with hydrogen.
Scalable and customized
Whether hybrid or fully electric, whether 48 or 800 volts, Schaeffler’s modular powertrain portfolio has the right solution for any e-car.
Intelligent chassis systems
Schaeffler is steadily expanding its involvement in autonomous mobility based on intelligent chassis systems.
A perfect give and go
As an innovation leader, Schaeffler is already researching the technologies of tomorrow together with universities, institutes, and research facilities.
Less chain, more flexibility
Neither chain, nor shaft, nor belt - Schaeffler presented the "Bike-by-Wire" system Free Drive as an innovative solution for bicycles at Eurobike 2021 in Friedrichshafen.
Smartly steered
Schaeffler’s intelligent mechatronic rear axle steering system ensures greater agility, driving comfort and safety with maximum energy efficiency.
An innovative solution
Hybrid or all-electric systems are complementing or replacing conventional powertrains. Schaeffler has developed a modular e-axle kit enabling an extensive, universal product portfolio.
The future wound in a coil
Be it in cars, trains or airplanes, in systems ranging from hybrid to fully electric, mobility of the future requires electric motors. But how does an electric motor actually work?
Preventive action
The transformation toward e-mobility doesn’t stop at the gates of the spare parts market. Schaeffler Automotive Aftermarket is gearing up for the demands of tomorrow.
The fuel cell: an onboard power-plant
Electric powertrains don’t have to involve range issues: The fuel cell is a case in point. How does this technology work and why has it recently become a hot topic?
Taking an idea to success
Two pioneering examples from the Schaeffler world illustrate how complex and time-consuming development work can be: the dry dual clutch and the fully variable UniAir valve control system.