SKF Group and Drive By Wire Business Unit
SKF is the leading global supplier of products, customer solutions and services in the rolling bearing and seals business. We provide our customers, all over the world, with solutions designed to improve their competitiveness.
SKF is present with its own factories in more than 20 countries and with sales companies in some 70 countries. Through a global network of distributors and dealers SKF is present in more than 130 countries. SKF has in all 40,000 employees.
SKF's main task is to develop, produce and market products, solutions and services that satisfy the needs of our customers and are safe for their intended use. This shall be done with the overall objective to attain long-term and sustained profitability. Our products should be efficient in their use of energy, protective of the environment, and be recyclable or safely disposable.
Mechatronics is a major strategic focus within SKF and its Automotive Division. For the automotive industry, drive-by-wire is now established as the technology to replace many of the traditional hydraulically and mechanically operated systems and will increasingly be introduced in the coming years. Within SKF's Automotive Division a dedicated drive-by-wire business unit focuses specifically on this increasing important market.
Drive-by-wire technology helps car manufacturers produce cars that are more environmentally friendly and with increased safety. The brake-by-wire system, as an example, allows for the elimination of the braking fluid. The steering column and the pedal assembly are still a significant safety worry in frontal impacts. The control systems as they were presented in our concept cars like in Filo or in NOVANTA eliminates both, freeing the driver's side of these potentially dangerous structures.
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