Engineering Services
Driving Your Project Success with Our Expertise
Our comprehensive approach to consultancy not only creates value for our customers but inspires the development of creativity and innovation to approach engineering tasks. Expert knowhow and our diverse skills base supports customers at all stages of the project life cycle.
We pride ourselves on being at the forefront of innovative engineering solutions, delivering excellence to our clients across various industries. As a trusted supplier, we specialize in providing comprehensive support tailored to meet the unique needs of diverse projects.
System Integration
Utilizing advanced vehicle dynamics systems such as cubiX, we ensure precise and efficient integration.
Our System Integration service offers expert integration of mechatronic components into vehicle sub-systems and the seamless integration of these sub-systems into the overall vehicle architecture. Whether it’s optimizing communication between components or ensuring full compatibility with the vehicle’s infrastructure, our solutions are tailored to provide reliable,high-performance integration, allowing for smoother operations and enhanced vehicle functionality across diverse platforms. This service is ideal for manufacturers aiming for cutting-edge vehicle dynamics and system efficiency.
Test Services
Specializing in all aspects of proving ground management, planning and physical vehicle testing.
Proving Ground Management
We offer expert proving ground management and planning services tailored to the unique demands of automotive, truck, and motorbike customers. Our comprehensive approach ensures that every test facility is optimized for your specific requirements - whether you’re developing performance cars, heavy-duty trucks, or high-performance motorcycles.
Test Track Strategy
Our test track strategy service is designed to help automotive customers maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of their proving ground testing. Whether you’re validating new technologies, enhancing vehicle dynamics, or ensuring compliance with safety standards, our team develops custom strategies to align with your development goals.
Physical Testing
We offer comprehensive physical testing services across on-road environments, proving grounds, and test benches, delivering a complete solution for validating vehicle performance, durability, and safety. We rigorously assess components and systems under real-world conditions, from challenging road scenarios to controlled proving grounds. Our state-of-the-art test benches allow precise, repeatable testing of specific vehicle subsystems, ensuring thorough validation before on-road trials.
Vehicle Prototype Build Up
We provide prototype build-up services tailored to automotive, truck, and motorbike applications, showcasing cutting-edge ZF products, sub-systems, and complete systems. Whether you’re developing demonstration vehicles for technology showcases, product validation, or client presentations, we deliver precision-built prototypes that fully integrate ZF’s advanced mechatronics and performance systems.
Virtual Engineering
Services both as a core component of development process and standalone solutions.
Virtual engineering plays a critical role in the product development processes enhancing both base and application development phases for our customers. It allows for early-stage performance testing, virtual prototyping and validation before physical prototypes are built, saving time and reducing costs. We offer simulation as an integral part of our development services or as a stand-alone solution to address specific customer needs. Our advanced virtual engineering tools and methodologies enable us to analyse everything from system dynamics to material behaviour under real-world conditions, ensuring that every product meets its performance, safety and reliability goals before it hits the road or track.
Data Analytics
Transformative tools unlocking valuable insights from raw data to drive innovation.
By collecting, analysing and interpreting large volumes of data, we enable you to gain a deeper understanding of customer behaviours, market trends and operational efficiency. This data-driven approach enables you to make precise adjustments to your strategies, enhancing product development, marketing and customer satisfaction.
Unlock the full potential of data-driven insights with our advanced data analytics services, specifically tailored for automotive and industrial applications. Our comprehensive solutions cover Road load data (RLD) evaluation, Condition monitoring (CoMo) and End-of-line (EOL) data analysis, providing crucial insights to optimize product performance and reliability
Scalable Simulation Frameworks
Experience outstanding efficiency and scalability in testing with our data analytics Scalable Simulation Framework. Designed for modern development needs, this cloud based framework allows you to execute and manage massive volumes of parallel scenario simulations, enabling a new level of testing throughput and quality assurance.
Mechatronics
Ensuring optimal performance, reliability and efficiency across a wide range of applications.
CFD Simulation
Our advanced CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) simulation solutions provide valuble insights across a full range of chassis and powertrain components - from dampers to eDrives, transmissions and clutches. With our state-of-the-art modelling, we precisely analyse fluid flow dynamics within each component, enabling us to optimize designs for performance, durability and efficiency.
EM Simulation
Our Electromagnetic (EM) simulation services offer cutting-edge insights into power loss, force and torque characteristics for mechatronic products in powertrain and chassis systems. With precision modelling, we enable detailed analysis of electromagnetic fields and their impact on performance, ensuring that designs are optimized for maximum efficiency and durability.
NVH Simulation
Our NVH (Noise, Vibration and Harshness) simulation services deliver deep insights into the vibrational and acoustic behaviour of structures, allowing for precise optimization for robust and reliable design. By analysing modal properties and understanding critical frequencies and modes, we can preventative identify and address potential NVH issues.
Solid Mechanics
Our Solid Mechanics services offer deep insights into the structural and performance characteristics of mechanical products, helping ensure optimal strength, displacement and weight distribution. We simulate realworld forces and environmental conditions, including temperature effects, to assess how components will perform under stress.
System Simulation
We offer simulation as an integral part of our development services or as a stand-alone solution.
ADAS
Our system simulation solutions deliver an unparalleled approach to developing and testing Software Defined Vehicles (SDV) and Automated Driving (AD) functions, leveraging ZF’s decades of simulation expertise. By virtualizing entire domains - environment, sensors and vehicles - we provide a plattform which fully integrates software algorithms, thus accelerating innovation while ensuring quality and reliability.
Hardware in the Loop (HiL)
Elevate your development process with our HiL solutions designed for the automotive, motorbike, and truck industries. Our HiL systems provide real-time capable sensor simulations, allowing you to test and validate complex vehicle systems in a controlled environment before going to the road.
Virtual ECU
At ZF, we offer cutting-edge Virtual ECU (V-ECU) development that streamlines your entire development process, from early software bring-up to full system validation. Our comprehensive solution ensures faster, more efficient software development, while enhancing quality and reducing costs.
Vehicle Dynamics
Our Vehicle Dynamics simulation service empowers automotive engineers with advanced virtual tools to streamline and accelerate the development process. By virtualizing a vehicle’s dynamics, we enable rapid prototyping, testing and refinement - eliminating the need for constant physical trials and unlocking faster iteration cycles.
Virtual Human Body and Behaviour Simulation
At ZF, we offer cutting-edge Virtual Human Body and Behaviour Simulation solutions that provide a comprehensive approach to safety and comfort in mobility engineering. Our tailored human body models and behaviour simulations are designed to predict, assess and enhance the safety and comfort of both vehicle occupants and vulnerable road users (VRU), enabling the efficient development of AD and ADAS systems.
Virtual Restraint System and Crash Simulation
Our Virtual Restraint System and Crash Simulation solutions set a new standard for automotive safety, offering a comprehensive suite of simulations that protect occupants and vulnerable road users (VRUs) alike. By leverage state-of-the-art crash and restraint system simulations, we can accurately predict crash impulses, assess restraint system efficacy and model the impact of accidents on both vehicle occupants and unprotected pedestrians.
