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At thyssenkrupp around 155,000 employees
work to develop innovative products and
solutions for sustainable progress.
With an engineering expertise in the three
areas of Material, Mechanical and Plant,
the group enables its customers to gain
an edge in the global market.
The thyssenkrupp group consists basically
on six business areas
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Components Technology (CT)
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Elevator Technology (ET)
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Industrial Solutions (IS)
•
Materials Services (MX)
•
Steel Europe (SE)
•
Steel Americas (AM)
Within the Components Technology sector,
automotive products such as steering
systems and camshafts can be found.
Steering systems which formerly had
been purely mechanical products, have
become much more comfortable with
hydraulic servo assistance which is now
being more and more replaced by elec-
tromechanical steering systems (EPS).
During this evolution, thyssenkrupp Presta
has acquired the necessary knowhow in
electronics and power electronics.
Of course, also steer-by-wire projects
are already in the focus of the company,
knowing that autonomous driving will
surely get reality within the next years.
Based on the different and funded
knowledge within the whole group
(hard- and software for EPS, assembled
rotor shaft, materials, industrialization,…)
a new activity has been created in 2017
which is connected to the Components
Technology branch and geographically
located in Eschen, Liechtenstein: the
Competence Center for e-mobility which
will focus on integrated electric drivetrain
solutions.
This Competence Center will focus on
electromagnetic motor design, inverter
technologies and topologies, other func-
tions like steering and braking, as well as
manufacturing of the whole drivetrain.
They are strongly supported by the R&D
team in Budapest which will develop the
control hardware and software.
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