ZF marks TraXon transmission milestone
ZF’s Commercial Vehicle Solutions (CVS) division has announced a major global production milestone of its TraXon truck and coach transmission system.
Half a million TraXon systems have now been manufactured at the company’s Friedrichshafen site in Germany alone since production began there in 2014.
“TraXon is now a globally produced success story offering next level transmission efficiency standards,” said Winfried Gründler, who is responsible for the driveline systems product line with ZF’s Commercial Vehicle Solutions division.
“Passing the half-million systems mark in just one of our production facilities is a powerful achievement which further underlines ZF’s global technology systems leadership.
“Light, strong, and intelligent, TraXon’s groundbreaking technology is supporting growing worldwide customer demand for efficient systems and helping ensure they have the most advanced trucks on the road.”
Gründler continued: “As a comprehensive supplier of intelligent mechanical systems, combining our deep transmission expertise as well as our advanced digital capabilities will ensure that vehicle manufacturers and fleet operators continue to gain real added value with TraXon, now and in the future.”
The transmission system offers many technological advantages, says ZF, such as top-level efficiency of up to 99.7 per cent, lower fuel consumption, as well as strong design quality and reliability.
In addition, it features ZF’s innovative PreVision GPS shifting strategy for high energy savings. With these features, the TraXon Automated Manual Transmission (AMT) system is said to deliver energy efficiency and value in terms of total cost of ownership (TCO).
Its digitalised package also enables predictive maintenance, says ZF. Compared to a manual transmission, TraXon can thus reduce consumption by up to eight per cent.
As a result of these benefits, TraXon has secured several awards during production, including the recent Reliable and Efficient Transmission System 2022 Award at the 7th Discover Trust awards ceremony in China. TraXon has also been recognised multiple times as a ‘Best Brand’ by the readers of Germany’s ETM publishing house.
Supporting many of the world’s leading original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), TraXon is manufactured in Friedrichshafen, Jiaxing (China) and Sorocaba (Brazil). The plants work closely together, with pre-assembled transmissions from Friedrichshafen delivered, for example, to China where demand is strong and TraXon is helping ZF gain market share.
In addition, a new assembly line for TraXon has recently commenced operation at ZF’s Sorocaba facility in Brazil. Providing flexibility to meet customer demand, it is said to offer state-of-the-art production processes and rigorous testing to ensure the highest quality standards are maintained as well as providing global manufacturing flexibility.
