essential to plan the required production equipment to ensure that the individual components could subsequently be assembled Uniqueness protects against copycats Brothers Dr Georg und Dr Wilhelm Schaeffler deliberately relied on machines of their own on the factory floor early on In 1960 the first tooling and equipment engineering department began its work in Herzogenaurach The decision was supported by the conviction that technically so phisticated products could be produced in house in the most eco nomical manner by developing and exclusively using the company s own machines instead of purchasing them from external suppliers In this way Schaeffler secures important manufacturing and assembly know how and shortens time to market for complex products This in turn enhances the company s independence and leads to compet itive advantages Only few machines actually end up in third par ty hands as part of the systems business such as the assembly equipment for Schaeffler s propshafts that have been a top seller for 50 years a principle that has proven to be viable to this day When you look at the many hidden champions in this country you ll see that most of them have their own mechanical engineering technology database with worldwide access that stores complete information about processes and results is available to the special purpose machinery unit In concert with extensive standardization and identical user interfaces of the machines cycle times can thus be reduced by as much as 30 percent One turning and milling centers and more than 3 500 grinding machines are used at Schaeffler s plants worldwide 3 000 70

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