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Haldex, a global leader in truck and trailer braking systems, prioritizes safety throughout the lifecycle of its products. With a focus on design, manufacturing, and maintenance, Haldex ensures its braking systems meet the highest safety standards. By incorporating rigorous testing, patent protections, and innovative technologies like telematics, the company delivers unparalleled safety and reliability for commercial vehicles.
Key Highlights:
- Comprehensive Safety Strategy: Haldex emphasizes safety across design, manufacturing, and maintenance, supported by patents to protect against unsafe, non-standard parts.
- Rigorous Testing: Products undergo extensive testing, including two years of field validation to account for diverse real-world conditions.
- Patents Protect Safety: Patents ensure all components meet precise standards, preventing functionality risks from poorly made copies.
- Telematics Innovation: Predictive maintenance, driver behavior monitoring, and route planning enhance fleet safety and efficiency.
- Advanced Servicing Tools: Smart hubcaps with RFID/NFC technology enable engineers to access maintenance data easily, improving servicing accuracy.
Haldex’s safety-first approach begins with meticulous design and validation processes. Products are subjected to concept, prototype, and process validations, including two years of rigorous field testing. As Sebastian Quick, Vice President of R&D, explains, “We create the right product by design from requirements, the right prerequisites for manufacture, and the right product in use.”
Patents play a crucial role in maintaining functionality and safety standards. Even minor design changes by counterfeiters can jeopardize product integrity. Quick illustrates this with a unique design feature connecting the brake pad to the thrust plate: “If you change the dimensions of components…you jeopardize the function and reduce the life of the product.”
Telematics is another cornerstone of Haldex’s safety innovations. By leveraging big data, Haldex predicts maintenance needs, monitors driving behavior, and optimizes route planning. Yvonne Paige-Stimson, Vice President of R&D Engineering, highlights the benefits: “Our algorithm looks at trends and predicts when brake pads are going to wear out…Fleet managers can make informed decisions about safer routes and driver behavior.”
Maintenance is further streamlined with smart hubcaps equipped with RFID or NFC chips. These devices allow engineers to instantly access product details and spare parts via a smartphone app, ensuring efficient servicing and sustained safety performance.
With a commitment to innovation and quality, Haldex continues to lead the commercial vehicle industry in delivering cutting-edge safety solutions that protect drivers, fleets, and the public.
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