First Edition Steering Systems Report Provides a Detailed Overview of the Market

DUBLIN, Ireland--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c73553) has announced the addition of Steering Systems Report to their offering.

The steering systems industry is in the midst of evolution in 2007, not having yet achieved the consolidation that other segments of the automotive supply industry have achieved.

This first edition Steering Systems Report provides a detailed market overview including all the latest technological developments within the sector. Also covered are profiles of all the major players within the industry and a detailed company index.

The report identifies eight major external players in the supply of steering

systems: ZF Lenksysteme GmbH, TRW Automotive Holdings Corp., Delphi Corp., JTEKT Corp., ThyssenKrupp AG, Showa Corp., NSK Ltd. and Tedrive Holding B.V.

Of the eight, only ZF Lenksysteme concentrates on steering products, the others are business units within suppliers with a larger range of products. ZF Lenksysteme is a 50-50 joint-venture of ZF Friedrichshafen AG and Robert Bosch GmbH.

There has already been much recent concentration. JTEKT is a 2006 merger of Koyo Steering and Toyoda Machine Works. In early 2007, Visteon Corp. spun off its European steering and halfshaft unit to private investors, who operate as Tedrive Holding B.V. of Heerling, The Netherlands. In late 2007, both Delphi and ThyssenKrupp were actively trying to sell their steering units.

This special package also includes a 'Who Supplies Whom in Steering Systems' Database.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The playing field

Financial challenges

Reluctance to change

1. STEERING SYSTEM BASICS

1.1. Regulations

1.2. Steering gear

1.3. Advent of power steering

2. ELECTRIC POWER STEERING

2.1. Rapid growth

2.2. Geographic influences

2.3. Europe

2.4. North America

2.5. Asia Pacific

2.6. What sells EPS

2.7. What OEMs want

2.8. Kinds of EPS

2.9. New EPS entrants

3. HYDRAULIC AND EHPS

3.1. Historic hydraulic power steering

3.2. Electro-Hydraulic Power Steering

4. ACTIVE STEERING

4.1. The ECU makes decisions

4.2. BMW’s pioneering system

4.3. Democratisation begins

4.4. Driver assistance

4.5. Automated parking

5. INTEGRATION WITH OTHER CHASSIS SYSTEMS

6. FOUR WHEEL STEERING

6.1. Laguna brings 4WS back to the foreground

6.2. Intriguing past, uncertain future

7. STEERING COMPONENTS

7.1. Steering wheels

7.2. Steering columns

7.3. Steering gear

7.4. Hydraulic pumps

7.5. Steering test equipment

7.6. Mass

8. STEER-BY-WIRE

8.1. From levers to wires

8.2. Always 15 years away

9. COMPANY OVERVIEWS

9.1. Delphi Steering

9.2. JTEKT Corp

9.3. Tedrive Holding B.V.

9.4. TRW Automotive Steering

9.5. ZF Lenksysteme

10. DETAILED COMPANY PROFILES

Autoliv

ContiTech

Delphi

Hutchinson

INA

Ixetic

JTEKT

Kostal

NSK

Oiles

Showa

Sona Koyo

Takata Petri

Tedrive

ThyssenKrupp

TRW Automotive

Valeo

ZF Lenksysteme

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