Automotive engineering: "Design to Cost" at the top of the agenda

The majority of industrial research and development is done by the European automotive and vehicle industry. Current optimisation potentials encompasses everything from the consequential use of virtual product development to the increasingly important "design to cost".

Zühlke, as an established partner of automotive manufacturers and their subcontractors, offers solutions that are frequently based on project experiences from other industries. Sophisticated processes and methods – e.g. to cut manufacturing costs – as well as excellent knowledge of hardware and software technologies contribute to an efficient development.

We are your partner for

• Optimisation of the product lines – infrastructure and platforms
• Development of OEM parts and vehicle switches
• Production methods like an assembling system for frame profiles
• Product optimisation
• Modelling and optimisation of business processes
• Technologies like simulation, optics applications and plastics technology
• Optimisation of the software development process

Our customers include

• Daimler
• Grundig Sicherheitstechnik
• Robert Bosch
• ThyssenKrupp

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