ZF LIFETEC Advances Vehicle Safety with Innovative Hybrid Testing Methods

ZF LIFETEC Advances Vehicle Safety with Innovative Hybrid Testing Methods

(IN BRIEF) ZF LIFETEC is enhancing vehicle occupant protection through advanced physical and virtual testing methods at its global tech centers. By combining real-life crash simulations with virtual testing, ZF shortens development cycles and tailors safety systems like seat belts and airbags to individual drivers’ needs based on size, gender, and age. The company’s unique HyDRA test bench validates digital simulations, ensuring high-quality standards for adaptive safety systems. ZF’s holistic testing approach ensures that components withstand extreme conditions while meeting global safety regulations.

(PRESS RELEASE) ALFDORF, 11-Sep-2024 — /EuropaWire/ — ZF LIFETEC, a leader in automotive safety systems, is advancing vehicle occupant protection through innovative physical and virtual testing methods. By conducting over 50 dynamic tests daily across its global tech centers in Europe, North America, and Asia, ZF ensures the highest quality standards for seat belts, airbags, and steering systems. The company is now focusing on adaptive occupant protection, tailoring safety systems to individuals’ size, gender, and age, a shift towards “real-life safety.”

Leveraging hybrid testing processes, ZF LIFETEC shortens development cycles by combining real and virtual tests. Their unique HyDRA test bench enables quick validation of digital simulations, making testing more efficient. This approach ensures that safety systems not only meet but exceed global safety standards, providing vehicle manufacturers with a competitive advantage.

The company’s extensive testing includes environmental and material simulations, ensuring components can withstand harsh conditions like saltwater, sunlight, and thermal changes. With state-of-the-art facilities, ZF LIFETEC continues to push the boundaries of safety innovation, ensuring vehicles are equipped to protect occupants under real-world conditions.

About ZF LIFETEC
ZF LIFETEC is a leading passive safety technology provider for enhanced protection of vehicle occupants. Employing around 36,000 employees dedicated to the mission of saving lives with a technology driven approach, the company develops, manufactures and distributes a comprehensive product portfolio including airbag, seat belt and steering wheel systems, covering a wide range from small vehicles in the volume segment up to sophisticated luxury vehicles. Featuring a market share exceeding 20 percent in its core product categories, ZF LIFETEC has a worldwide presence at 48 locations across 20 countries. In the fiscal year 2023, the Group generated sales of EUR 4.6 billion. Based on its strong relationships with a diversified customer base of global OEMs, driven by outstanding quality, long-standing R&D collaborations besides a strong global innovation platform, ZF LIFETEC is well positioned for future growth opportunities arising from the automotive megatrends electrification, (semi-) automated driving, smart interior, as well as increasing safety demands and stepped-up safety regulations worldwide.

Learn more at www.zf-lifetec.com

Media Contacts:

Knut Zimmer
Press Spokesman
ZF LIFETEC
Phone: +49 171 1506727
e-mail: knut.zimmer@zf.com

Mirko Gutemann
Press Spokesman Technology and Product Communication, ZF Group
Phone: +49 7541 77-960136
e-mail: mirko.gutemann@zf.com

SOURCE: ZF Friedrichshafen AG