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trailer world Issue Two 2014

Issue Two 2014 25 BPW Group The BPW Group is a strong community with highly diverse specialists. The brains of this think tank explain how the cooperation succeeds. Photo:FUENF6GmbH trailer world: BPW has clearly changed how it understands itself. What is the reason for this? Carlo Lazzarini: The demands facing our industry are changing. The pace of the busi- ness is quickening, it is becoming more in- ternational, statutory regulations are getting stricter and, at the same time, the pressure on costs continues to grow. This has significant effects on everyone involved: on fleet oper- ators and vehicle manufacturers. We need new solutions because the old ones will no longer function unrestrictedly. We are adapt- ing to this by combining the expertise that we have available in the BPW Group. What advantages do your customers de- rive from the companies in the BPW Group working together more closely than previ- ously? Carlo Lazzarini: We have set ourselves the goal of supporting transport companies with flexible, easy-to-maintain and individual solutions. This is possible because our tech- nologies interact with regard to their func- tions, thereby providing significantly greater benefits for customers. In addition, we offer a large number of services ranging from con- sulting and training through to maintenance contracts. With this overall offer, we support hauliers in carrying out their transport ob- ligations as safely and efficiently as possible. This is what we mean by a mobility partner- ship. We help our direct customers, the vehicle manufacturers, as a system partner through our range of tailor-made components from a single source; as a result, they are able to meet the needs of their customers, the haul- age companies, as effectively as possible and thereby increase their competitiveness. At the same time, the system partnership can contribute to optimising manufacturing pro- cesses. What advantages do you derive from this? Dr. Bert Brauers: The close cooperation means that we can make optimum use of the potential that is in our individual product areas. Particularly the possibilities provided to us by components equipped with sensor systems, in other words the information that we can obtain from these components, can only be made really useful for customers by means of telematics. The perfect interplay between running gears and bodies equipped with sensors together with scalable and us- er-friendly telematics means that BPW offers vehicle operators a balanced product port- folio that is unique throughout the industry, enabling them significantly to improve the transparency and safety of their transport and loading processes. Dirk Miesen: A good example of this is elec- tromechanical door locking that we are im- plementing together with BPW and idem telematics. We at Hesterberg are contributing a door and locking system together with one of our partners. Telematics from idem telem- atics enable the monitoring of door activities: For one thing, the information about where the vehicle is currently located is available in real time, while for another the telematics can also be used for locking and unlocking we think

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