About Us
History ZM S.A.
Founded on April 25, 1983, ZM began its operations in the automotive sector with a focus on developing and supplying Starter Relays. Over the years, the company has kept pace with technological advances, expanded its reach into new markets and established its international presence. This has allowed ZM to diversify its production to include Screws and Wheel Nuts, as well as Special Cold-Formed Parts. Positive market acceptance and constant investment in technology have led ZM to further expand its product range, which now includes Starter Motors, Alternators, Alternator Pulleys, Inductors, Fasteners, Crossheads, Beams, Axial Ends, Suspension Pivots, Steering Ends for light and heavy-duty vehicles, as well as Steering Bars and Stabilizer Bar Rods.
With more than 40 years of continuous and sustainable growth, ZM has obtained international quality certifications such as IATF 16949, solidifying itself as a stable business partner and a supplier of highly reliable and competitive products.
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ENGINEERING DEVELOPING COMPETITIVENESS ZM
ZM has the complete structure for the development of its products from design to validation. Using high technology in CAD / CAM / CAE to the creation of productive processes and tools manufacturing, projects are developed in cold forming, stamping, and injection, as well as to machineries and equipments of assembling products and processes.
In the development of new products are realized simulations in CAD (Computer Aided Design) and CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) exempting the construction of physical prototypes and rationalizing the time of drawing up projects, and also enable a better matching of the tooling into the machineries. The tools used in the production of parts and components are manufactured internally contributing to the quality assurance and optimization of production flow.
Quality
ZM is fully aware that the current stage of the Company, effectively reaching the standards required by the market, is associated with a factor of particular importance: the Quality. Through combined investments in staff training, acquisition and development of new technologies the company succeeds in providing products of high reliability.
Actions in the quality context include to maintain multidisciplinary teams engaged in all stages of product development. Associated to them are used statistical techniques, analyses of reliability, accelerated tests, as well as the support instruments like the softwares CAE / CAD / CAM.
The goals and efforts aim to extend the concept of Quality to all aspects of the Company's activities. All factors are considered, from those directly affecting the product, such as raw materials, technology, and professional qualifications, to those indirectly impacting it, including employees' quality of life. Therefore, the term Quality at ZM encompasses not only its products but the entire dynamic context that generates them.