Development Support
From the idea to series production: As a supplier to the commercial vehicle, agricultural machinery and construction machinery industries, HÖRMANN Automotive faces the daily challenge of industrialising new tools and processes for the production of its components. Efficient and targeted project management helps us to meet cost and time targets and provide our customers with the best possible support throughout the product development process. We focus on digitising the product development process as far as possible, particularly with regard to the safeguarding and optimisation of series processes. By working closely with our customers, we can use our technological expertise to help them optimise the design of components in terms of costs and technological feasibility. In doing so, we build on a broad network consisting of internal Group expertise, external service providers and universities.
We support our customers in large parts of the product development process as part of their development projects:
- Method Development
- Project Management
- Implementation of optimised technological approaches
This early involvement in the product development process offers decisive advantages: Based on our extensive technological and methodological expertise, we help our customers to optimise their component design in line with existing production restrictions. This leads to cost-optimised solutions for a given component design and reduces valuable time in the subsequent industrialisation process.
1. Method Development
Based on our technological expertise, we are able to take over the component design and development for you to meet your specific requirements. To do this, we also draw on the group-internal synergies of HÖRMANN Vehicle Engineering, which provides consistent CAE chains and expertise in the area of component design and analysis.
As part of development, we take into account production-related restrictions and potential savings or improvements in order to optimise your product and the underlying process both with regard to costs and feasibility. We can thus plan the quality you request.
2. Project Management
Based on the desired component design and the technological process design, we take over component realisation and the associated project management for you up to and including series production.
To do this, we draw on our own resources for tool design and our own toolmaker’s shops as well as on an extensive international network of service providers and toolmakers. Based on our technological and methodological expertise, we guarantee the originally planned quality.
3. Implementation of optimised technological approaches
We support you in the realisation of your products via targeted enhancement of our technologies. For this purpose, we rely on the broad range of technologies covered by our locations and on technological innovations from our advanced product development. Decisive drivers here are the processing of lightweight materials, process integration and cost effectiveness. We achieve this by working in an ecosystem consisting of suppliers and universities by means of which our technologies undergo permanent enhancement.
Innovation
Innovation goes hand in hand with customer benefit. We achieve this through close dialogue with our customers and close integration in our network of competence centres, universities and technology partners.
Our current technological focus is on the realisation of cost-efficient lightweight solutions, which are indispensable for our customers, particularly in light of the current trend towards electromobility. We are focussing on both structural and lightweight material solutions. We see both approaches as crucial in the commercial vehicle sector and are therefore intensively involved in the industrialisation of new lightweight steel construction technologies and strategies for processing promising lightweight materials.
Our claim is clear: we want to shape the mobility of the future together in a network of customers, universities and competence centres.
1. New, innovative product approaches
As an established system supplier to the commercial vehicle industry, HÖRMANN Automotive is committed to making a contribution to CO2-neutral logistics together with our customers through new ideas and approaches.
The associated challenges for the commercial vehicle industry in this context are immense and spur us on to overcome them together with our partners and customers.
Innovation for heavy-duty commercial vehicles
For HÖRMANN Automotive, the levers for innovation in heavy commercial vehicles range from economical lightweight construction approaches to functional and component integration and new topological vehicle structures.
We are also thinking in terms of completely new vehicle systems in conjunction with the semi-trailer in order to equip ourselves technologically in the best possible way for future requirements in heavy commercial vehicles.
Here, synchronous technology development in the areas of forming and joining technology provides us with significant input for the realisation of new structures and systems that differ fundamentally from today's ladder frames in terms of weight, cost, functionality and the integration of alternative energy sources.
We are guided here by customer concerns, which we see not only in terms of weight, variance and costs, but also in particular against the background of emissions legislation for the years 2025 and 2030. New solutions are needed - which is why we are already thinking them through today.
Innovation for light-duty commercial vehicles
Solutions for future inner-city mobility and logistics require new, customised systems for alternative drive sources. To this end, we have developed a chassis concept for lightweight, electrified commercial vehicles.
It is characterised by a bionic lightweight construction approach, which is reflected in both the topology and the component design. The non-linear chassis topology enables systemic protection of the energy storage in the chassis and thus reduces the weight and costs of accommodating and protecting the batteries. The non-linear longitudinal members, in turn, are designed as steel multi-chamber profiles, which are specifically designed to absorb the impact energy in the event of a side crash.
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The underlying, innovative production technology enables a high degree of variance in the profile without additional mould costs and is therefore able to cover a high degree of vehicle variance in terms of wheelbase and battery dimensions.
The vehicle study is equipped with direct wheel hub drives, which reduces the entry height and maximises the potential load volume of the body at the same time.
Innovation for railway traffic
Together with HÖRMANN Vehicle Engineering, HÖRMANN Automotive is also breaking new ground in rail transport. The development of a new type of carrier wagon for rail freight transport is moving away from conventional welded assemblies and is instead based on a mechanically joined lightweight truss structure.
The carrier wagon concept addresses several customer benefits: By using highly efficient production technologies, the standardised truss elements can be manufactured cost-effectively and in short cycles. The subsequent use of mechanical joining processes reduces production costs and component distortion and also speeds up the assembly time.
At the same time, the trolley structure can be customised to different lengths and container loads - both in terms of the required lengths and the underlying loads. The result of this is a significant reduction in material usage and total weight as well as manufacturing costs.
The associated new standardised concept of the headers enables not only a reduction in weight but also the use of different coupling systems and bogies. At the same time, the end pieces can be combined with different centre segments, which increases flexibility and reduces overall costs.
Innovation for semi-trailers
Lightweight construction in semi-trailers enables increased payloads and thus increased transport efficiency. The key prerequisite for this in a highly cost-sensitive market is economical lightweight construction strategies. HÖRMANN Automotive has developed lightweight construction concepts that can make a sustainable contribution to reducing the weight of semi-trailers and form the basis for the ongoing development of an ultra-lightweight trailer concept.
The vision is to turn the semi-trailer as the actual ‘goods carrier’ into a digitalised core element of future, climate-neutral heavy goods transport.
2. Innovation in Technology Development
We support you in realising your ideas with new technological approaches. To this end, we work consistently to further develop our technologies and processes in line with the latest trends, which are currently impacting us in the form of alternative drive systems and digitalisation.
Development of lightweight technologies
The discipline of lightweight construction is experiencing a completely new relevance against the backdrop of alternative drive systems: The aim is to reduce moving masses in order to gain range and compensate for additional loads due to energy storage. We are doing this by developing new process chains for processing high-performance steel and non-ferrous materials. At the same time, we see great potential in the technological ability to create load-adaptive structures in lightweight structural engineering. Conventional forming processes often only offer the necessary degrees of freedom at considerable additional cost. With increasing flexibility of the forming process in terms of the degrees of freedom that can be achieved, we see ourselves in a position to produce load-optimised structures and to be able to realise these in high variance at attractive cost. We are currently pursuing this goal in particular with our endeavours in relation to free-form bending and gap profiling.
Integrally branched structures due to linear flow splitting
The production of integrally branched profiles offers innovative solutions in terms of component connection and the utilisation of integrally branched multi-chamber profiles. In this process, a flat sheet is formed into a double-T profile as part of a continuous rolling process by moulding rollers on both strip edges, which offers new design options in terms of lightweight construction and functional integration. At the same time, it is possible to produce non-linear profiles by integrating a bending process into the production line. This means that the ‘gap profiling’ mass production process can also offer significant added value in applications with high variance. This has been proven in the context of the bionically orientated vehicle topology of the Hörmann integral chassis, which can be produced with minimal tool investment thanks to the process chain described, even with high variance - particularly in terms of wheelbase and chassis dimensions.
Free-form bending
The stringent continuation of the technological focus of tube bending at HÖRMANN Automotive is free-form bending. Extensive geometric design freedom in the profile without additional tool costs enables the cost-attractive production of innovative, topographically optimised structures. We work closely with system manufacturers and universities in the ECO system to further develop free-form bending against the background of batch- and geometry-related component tolerances through adapted control and regulation mechanisms.
Development of process chains for the production of hybrid composites
In many cases, multi-material systems offer added value, particularly in the area of large-scale component applications in the agricultural machinery sector, which are both weight and wear-sensitive and also have to fulfil additional functions due to the attachment of a wide variety of add-on parts. We take this trend into account and are involved in the development of metal-plastic composites with a focus on optimising the use of materials and intelligent options for process integration while maintaining component performance.
Digitalisation in forming Technology
Smart tools
New approaches to tool digitalisation allow us to track component quality where it is created: in the tool. The integration of sensory elements in tool systems allows us to have a transparent view of the forming process for the first time and thus enables us to develop technological processes based on cause-and-effect chains within the tool.
HÖRMANN Automotive Slovakia s.r.o
HÖRMANN Automotive Slovakia GmbH is your ideal partner for the production of high-quality, cost-optimised components and systems made from metal.
Components and systems made from metal
We currently produce approximately 1,300 different products and deliver on a daily basis around 30,000 components to our customers. In three-shift operation, we process approximately 40 tonnes of single rolled and coil sheets in different thicknesses, formats and widths every day.
State-of-the art technology in laser systems, folding presses, robot welding systems and above all our approximately 300 employees have made us a sought-after partner for the vehicle industry.
Every day, we utilise all our experience and expertise to fulfil the requirements of our customers with regard to flexibility, quality, reliability and economic efficiency without compromise.
HÖRMANN Automotive Slovakia s.r.o
Partizanska. 73
95701 Banovce nad Bebravou
Slowakei
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HÖRMANN Automotive Wackersdorf GmbH
HÖRMANN Automotive Wackersdorf becomes HÖRMANN Systems Assembly
HÖRMANN Automotive Wackersdorf GmbH has changed its name to HÖRMANN Systems Assembly GmbH due to a strategic reorientation and will be integrated into the HÖRMANN "Communication" division. With this step, the company is strengthening its commitment in the areas of charging infrastructure, robotics, digital signage and other future markets.
To this end, HÖRMANN Systems Assembly will continuously expand its range of services, particularly in the area of industrialisation. The aim is to develop into an "all-in-one" partner for customers in order to provide them with the best possible support in all areas.
"With the new alignment as HÖRMANN Systems Assembly GmbH, we are ready for the future," emphasises Managing Director Marcus Schaffranka. "We have developed steadily in recent years and can now focus on innovative markets. We are therefore looking forward to this new era and are convinced that we will be successful together as a team."
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HÖRMANN Systems Assembly GmbH
Arthur-B.-Modine Straße 2
D-92442 Wackersdorf
T +49 9431 7493-0 • F +49 9431 7493-901
info.wackersdorf@hoermann-gruppe.com
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Marcus Schaffranka
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HÖRMANN Automotive Saarland GmbH
Specialising in cold and hot forming, welded assemblies, piping and interior systems
As a long-standing partner to the agricultural and construction machinery industry as well as the commercial vehicle and bus sector, Hörmann Automotive Saarland GmbH specialises in the development, manufacture and supply of high-quality components for cold and hot forming, welded assemblies, piping and interior systems.
Innovative component manufacturing for the agricultural and construction machinery industry as well as for the commercial vehicle and bus sector
With a production area of over 20,000 square metres and around 350 qualified employees, we process and work with stainless steels, copper and aluminium in addition to standard deep-drawn steels. To ensure the highest quality, we rely on a modern machine park in the areas of 2D and 3D laser technology, bending technology, welding robotics, CNC machining centres and automated and manual presses that are suitable for both cold and hot forming.
Flexible delivery of large components and small series
Our services focus on the order- and customer-specific construction of components in small and medium batch sizes as well as series production, which is characterised by a remarkable product variety. Our versatile product portfolio includes large-area side panels for harvesters, mudguards for tractors, attachments for commercial vehicles, chassis and axle-bearing chassis parts, steel bumpers for trucks, as well as ready-to-install ceiling systems for city buses and coaches, and pipes for fuel, refrigerant, hydraulics, oil and water.
Efficiency in logistics and quality
Efficient logistics processes ensure that the specifically manufactured components are delivered directly and reliably to our customers' production lines worldwide on a just-in-time or just-in-sequence basis. Our commitment to excellence in all areas – from development and production to logistics – is ensured by IATF 16949-certified processes that meet the highest standards of the automotive industry. With expertise and passion, as well as state-of-the-art technology, our employees create products that perfectly combine design and functionality, guarantee reliable quality and offer sustainable solutions.
HÖRMANN Automotive Saarland GmbH
Essener Straße 3
D-66606 St. Wendel
T +49 6851 8005-300 • F +49 6851 8005-370
info.saarland@hoermann-automotive.com
Company headquarter:
Am Stahlhammer 65
D-66121 Saarbrücken
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Technical Managing Director
Dipl-Ing. Martin Klein
Diversity is our strength
Careers at HÖRMANN
The HÖRMANN Group has been at the forefront of innovation for more than 60 years. HÖRMANN Automotive is part of the HÖRMANN Group.
Due to the HÖRMANN Group continuously investing in the employees’ expertise and state-of-the-art technologies, the family company has grown to include 30 affiliated companies. And this together in four successful divisions: Automotive, Engineering, Communication and Services.
HÖRMANN solutions help customers to go a step further – or make a quantum leap. Our recipe for success: the corporate culture of a family company with the freedom to develop new ideas, a strong team spirit, and employees who want to make a difference.
Why work for HÖRMANN?
Added value, not just added workload
Getting better to remain good
Sharing knowledge means multiplying knowledge
Quality comes from doing
Lateral thinkers who think ahead
We ask the right questions rather than simply giving the first available answer. We work closely with customers to understand their needs. And what will really help them. The result: solutions with a long-term impact that make our customers more competitive.
We develop continuously in discussions with colleagues, through vocational training and by embracing new professional challenges. Within the company – or the entire Group.
We live the team culture of a family company that likes to share experience and expertise. Across project teams, companies and segments. The impetus is provided by each individual. The best solutions are created together.
We are doers. What we do impresses customers. But first it has to impress us. All of our employees take quality personally, are justifiably proud of their achievements and are compensated attractively for their work.
We think broadly with a view to making things better. Four segments, 27 companies, around 3,000 employees – we have many strengths. As a family company with a long tradition, we invest sustainably. We shape change with foresight
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HÖRMANN Automotive – Part of the HÖRMANN Group
HÖRMANN Automotive GmbH consists of six high-performing companies with decades of experience in the development, production, assembly and logistics of components for the automotive industry.
Our plants are specialised in small-, medium-, and large-volume metal components as well as individual one-off products. With our core competencies, we aim to meet the daily needs of the commercial vehicle, agricultural machinery, construction, automotive and automotive supplier industries.
Strategic Business Segments
The business of HÖRMANN Automotive can be divided into three strategic business segments: Truck, Off-Road and E-Mobility.
- In the “Truck” business segment, we are specialised in the production of frame and BiW components for commercial vehicles. Particularly with regard to the commercial-vehicle frame, we cover a holistic technology portfolio with the production of longitudinal frame members, detachable frame components, welded assemblies and pipes and are available to our customers as a system partner. Due to our extensive technological expertise, we already provide our customers with valuable input and advice on cost-efficient and innovative component design at an early stage of the product creation process.
- The “Off-Road” business segment gives us wide-ranging access to customers thanks to a broad technology portfolio. We are specialised in flap systems for agricultural machinery and buses, tank systems for agricultural and construction machinery as well as complex welded assemblies for off-road requirements. Here, too, we support our customers in the area of product creation as an active development partner thanks to our extensive expertise in this technology.
- Future mobility is being influenced in a lasting manner by electrification; this will allow new solutions in many of our customer sectors. We are responding to these requirements and potential with the aspiration to actively shape future mobility, e.g. via the assembly of charging stations or components for electric vehicles. In the “E-Mobility” business segment, we thus feel obliged to develop and deliver innovative system solutions in line with demand and consistently orientate our actions – including in the “Truck” and “Off-Road” areas – to this obligation.
The successful growth course enjoyed by HÖRMANN Automotive is thanks to its committed and highly qualified employees, the unique technological position in our business segments and over 50 years of experience in the global automotive market. Every single component constructor at HÖRMANN Automotive is part of a coordinated production system – thanks to the intensive exchange of knowledge, accelerated development processes in ecosystems and digital networking in the HÖRMANN Group. Furthermore, we shape future mobility with our customers and together accompany new products every step of the way to market maturity.
HÖRMANN Automotive develops and constructs the components for a whole.
Management
Managing Director
Dr.-Ing. Michael Radke
Managing Director
Christian Petters
Managing Director
Dr. Jürgen Lechler
HÖRMANN Automotive GmbH is Part of the HÖRMANN Group
HÖRMANN Automotive GmbH is part of a strong group – the HÖRMANN Group. The HÖRMANN Group has grown steadily since its formation in 1955. HÖRMANN Holding GmbH & Co. KG is the parent company of 30 subsidiaries operating in the Automotive, Communication, Engineering and Services segments with a high degree of entrepreneurial initiative and independence.
The objective of the HÖRMANN Group is to provide customers with economic, innovative and sustainable solutions and services that offer them significant advantages and clear benefits. The Group, which has approximately 3,000 highly qualified employees, uses the entire scope of its widely diversified and networked knowledge from the extremely diverse technological areas to achieve this goal.
Due to the range of diversified, highly qualified technologies and services, the Group aims to make itself independent of economic influences and to thus minimise the risk for the companies and their employees.
Thinking and acting in this way creates the space to develop perfect customer solutions using our vision, motivation and passion. A concept that is impressively confirmed by the success and continuous growth experienced by the HÖRMANN Group.
HÖRMANN Automotive is Part of a Strong Group of 27 Affiliated Companies
The companies of the HÖRMANN Group are always situated in the best possible strategical and logistical locations for our customers.
The company locations of the HÖRMANN Group in Germany are shown on the interactive map.
HÖRMANN Automotive ist Teil einer starken Gruppe mit über 30 Gesellschaften
Die Unternehmen der HÖRMANN Gruppe finden sich immer in strategisch und logistisch bester Lage für unsere Kunden.
Auf der interaktiven Karte sind die Unternehmensstandorte der HÖRMANN Gruppe in Deutschland zu sehen.