Dear readers,
Motion is present everywhere – including in this issue of our technology magazine “tomorrow.” That said, I’m not only referring to the content on the next 90 pages revolving around our focus topic but also to the movements with which you’ve taken this magazine into your hands and opened it, for example. Or the many movements it took to get this magazine into your hands in the first place. From the delivery of the paper to the printing process to finding its way into your mailbox – everything involved motion and movements.
For us at Schaeffler, motion is essential because motion has been the core element of our products – and will continue to be, going forward. Our tagline puts our mission, our vision in a nutshell: We pioneer motion.
We’re the experts in innovative motion technology. It’s found in applications ranging from automobiles to machines to wind turbines. As wide as the range of our entire product family is: motion is the connecting link between them all. That’s why in the future Schaeffler is going to position itself strategically with even greater precision: as a motion technology company.
Motion is present everywhere – at Schaeffler it is even in products that are not in motion. Our electrolyzer and our fuel cell technologies are cases in point because they provide clean energy to make motion sustainable. That’s why we call this still young product family “Energize Motion.” These technologies for the production and use of hydrogen are also an ideal example that shows how we feed our development, systems and manufacturing know-how with great success into forward-looking fields of application. Our newest “Energize Motion” technology is metallic bipolar plates for the future of hydrogen-based mobility. The plates feature a new design optimized for mass production and use an innovative coating method for high performance and long life.
Not only our products are constantly in motion but so is the environment in which they’re used. Technological development is moving forward, customer wishes and spheres of life are changing, long-neglected aspects, first and foremost climate protection and resource conversation, are suddenly becoming urgent. As a motion technology company, we consider those aspects our responsibility as well and therefore need to think beyond development and production. We must ensure that our products will stay in motion as long as possible and become part of the circular economy. That’s important for our customers as well as for our commitment to sustainability. We call that “Sustain Motion.”
In keeping with the concept to which our readers have become accustomed, we look far beyond the Schaeffler horizon in “tomorrow.” Turn to the coming pages to read about things that will keep the world in motion, going forward: about increasingly agile robots to digital twins and new materials in automotive engineering to urban air mobility.
Enjoy the read.