· OnGuardMAX meets the latest GSR regulations and is ready to support higher levels of automation.
· Enhanced safety: OnGuardMAX introduces Moving Off Information System (MOIS), Highway Assist, and Traffic Jam Assist
· ZF’s modular brake platform, mBSP XBS, also in series production with major European OEMs
Hanover (Germany). At IAA Transportation 2024, ZF announced the deployment of the latest version of ZF’s Advanced Driving Assistance System, OnGuardMAX, and the modular brake platform, mBSP XBS for the European market. The latest iteration of OnGuardMAX combines upgraded radar and camera technologies with an enhanced image processing module to improve vehicle and driver safety.
Already in series production with major European OEMs, mBSP XBS offers a simplified system layout with centralized intelligence in a single ECU. It provides scalable value-added features for higher levels of automation.
Building on the success of previous versions, ZF has introduced several new safety enhancements to OnGuardMAX. These include the Moving Off Information System (MOIS) feature, which monitors the area directly in front of the vehicle where objects or pedestrians may be hard to see from the cab’s high vantage point during initial movement. Other features, such as Highway Assist and Traffic Jam Assist, allow the vehicle to automatically adjust its speed and maintain a safe distance, even in stop-and-go traffic. These improvements enhance both road safety and comfort for drivers.
“With the launch of OnGuardMAX, we have introduced enhanced features that make it an industry leading driver assistance system,” said Philipp Helmich, Senior Vice President and responsible for the Product Line Chassis Control (CVS). “Our latest version demonstrates how we continue to lead the industry in developing new technologies to improve commercial vehicle safety. These advancements enable ZF‘s driver assistance platform to meet the regulatory requirements and integrate more advanced features to make roads safer for everyone.“
The latest release of OnGuardMAX can connect to as many as six short range radars, covering up to 80 meters on either side of the vehicle and up to 220 meters in front, with a field of view spanning 150 degrees. The improvements derive from its enhanced ability to fuse data from the radar sensors and camera, enabling more accurate object detection and speed adjustments, and automatically applying the brake if needed.
OnGuardMAX includes lane assist functions such as Lane Departure Warning, Lane Keeping Assist and Lane Centering for safer highway driving. It is also ready to support automatic braking during initial vehicle movement or nearside turns with its Moving Off Information System (MOIS) and Blind Spot Information System (BSIS). Additionally, it meets cybersecurity regulation UNECE R155 without a dedicated gateway ECU.
OnGuardMAX exceeds, in many areas, the current GSR guidelines and enables automated driving up to Level 2. It is ready to support higher levels of automation.
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1. ZF’s Safety Innovation Truck combines the Group’s comprehensive latest safety technologies – among others, the emergency braking system OnGuardMAX.
2. OnGuardMAX system components: Camera (top left), radars (top right, bottom left), Image Processing Unit (bottom right).
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About ZF
ZF is a global technology company supplying advanced mobility products and systems for passenger cars, commercial vehicles and industrial technology. Its comprehensive product range is primarily aimed at vehicle manufacturers, mobility providers and start-up companies in the fields of transportation and mobility. ZF electrifies a wide range of vehicle types. With its products, the company contributes to reducing emissions, protecting the climate as well as enhancing safe mobility. Alongside the automotive sector – passenger cars and commercial vehicles – ZF also serves market segments such as construction and agricultural machinery, wind power, marine propulsion, rail drives and test systems.
With some 168,700 employees worldwide, ZF reported sales of €46.6 billion in fiscal 2023. The company operates 162 production locations in 31 countries.
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About CVS Division
ZF’s Commercial Vehicle Solutions (CVS) division is helping shape the future of commercial transportation ecosystems. Our mission is to be the preferred global technology partner to the commercial vehicle industry. Powerfully combining ZF’s commercial vehicle systems expertise, extensive technology portfolio and global
operations, the division serves the full commercial vehicle industry value chain. As the automotive industry progresses towards an increasingly autonomous, connected, and electrified (ACE) future, ZF’s CVS division innovates, integrates and supplies components and advanced control systems that help make commercial vehicles and
fleets operate more safely and sustainably. CVS unites ZF’s former Commercial Vehicle Technology and Commercial Vehicle Control Systems divisions, the latter being formed following ZF’s acquisition of WABCO in Spring 2020.