Success formula “compact design”

Brose Group (05/2001). Right on time for the Frankfurt Motor Show in September Brose will present a new generation of window regulators to the world market: more intelligent, even more economical and with a higher performance than their predecessors. “Compact design” is the success formula in the advanced development. Two years ago this was essentially just an idea, even though distinguished guests at our Frankfurt stand displayed a great deal of interest in it. By this September the solution will been completed and ready waiting to be ordered.

Having a compact design is definitely the correct course to follow, not just because it means a simpler way of handling our products. Tilmann Seliger from the advanced development department says Brose’s new models of the car industry could be assembled ”theoretically one-handed” at the customer’s production line. This shows that the new window regulators have not only become smaller, but also lighter. Compact means fewer single components, merged together with optimum coordination and higher performance. This is seen in the new motors which have shrunk merely in size.

As far as their performance is concerned, they have been optimized for the new systems and are designed to be used in the future 42 volt vehicle electrical system appearing in the distance on the automotive horizon. With this compact design Brose’s customers will still continue to have innovative safety functions like a reduction in the force of the electronic anti-trap feature as stipulated in the latest legal requirements. Development specialists cannot, of course, program market success as well. This should not, however, be necessary in the view of the fact that the new systems, despite their many advantages, cost even less than their predecessors.