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Liebherr’s Transportation Systems Division,
a Strong Network
The railway industry shows growth per-
spectives in the medium term, even if it
seems that the dynamics have slight-
ly slowed down in the last few months.
While countries that were hit particu-
larly hard by the current economic and
debt crisis cancelled or postponed sev-
eral projects, the railway industry as a
whole continues to grow.
The driving forces behind this growth
are new railway projects on the one
hand, and modernization measures in
the fields of long-distance traffic for
the main routes, subways and street-
cars on the other hand. Additionally,
this develop ment is supported by new
environmental protection requirements
and the highly congested transfer routes
in metropolitan areas.
Within its long-term strategy Liebherr-
Transportation Systems continues to
promote the expansion of its organiza-
tion in selected new markets or market
regions like North America, Russia or
Brazil with the aim of local presence. At
the same time Liebherr-Transportation
Systems has reinforced the sales
and service teams in its core markets
France, Germany and United Kingdom.
The process-based organization of
Liebherr-Transportation Systems has
been further developed in order to im-
prove smooth collaboration across the
different sites and to ensure that eve-
ry individual part of the organization re-
mains responsible for its tasks while
contributing to the achievement of the
company’s overall objectives. By en-
hancing simultaneous engineering the
lead time of the projects could be short-
ened even further. Thus, product quali-
ty, customer satisfaction and sustaina-
bility have been further increased.
Moreover, Liebherr-Transportation Systems
has started to concentrate all heating,
ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC)
product development activities at its
main site in Korneuburg (Austria). The
aim is to benefit from synergies that
the utilization of engineering resourc-
es and infrastructure, the standardiza-
tion of business processes, the existing
in-house production as well as test fa-
cilities offer.
Furthermore, the collaboration with
the development and project manage-
ment departments is being improved
in order to meet customer needs in an
even more suitable manner and to im-
plement the sales and service strategy,
which was defined for the entire trans-
portation field. Here the standardiza-
tion of processes across all Liebherr-
Transportation Systems sites has
especially proven its worth.
The organizational alignment of the
hydraulic systems area has been com-
pleted: Liebherr-Transportation Systems
further established its responsibility re-
garding marketing, sales and customer
service (including repair and overhaul) of
hydraulic systems and equipment, with-
in the framework of a close collabo ration
with Liebherr-Aero space Lindenberg
GmbH (Germany). The strategic align-
ment of the manufacturing network,
which was kicked off some years ago,
was also further advanced.
Transportation Systems