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BorgWarner Inc. (NYSE: BWA) is a United States-based worldwide automotive industry components and parts supplier. It is primarily known for its powertrain products,[1] which include manual and automatic transmissions and transmission components, (e.g., electro-hydraulic control components, transmission control units, friction materials, and one-way clutches), turbochargers, engine valve timing system components, along with four-wheel drive system components.[1]

The company has 60 manufacturing facilities across 18 countries[1], which include the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia. It provides drivetrain component solutions to all three U.S. automakers,[1] as well as a variety of European[1] and Asian[1] original equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers. BorgWarner has diversified into several automotive-related markets (1999),[2] including ignition interlock technology (ACS Corporation est.1976) for preventing impaired operation of vehicles.

Historically, BorgWarner was also known for their ownership of the Norge appliance company (washers and dryers).


The original Borg-Warner Corporation was formed in 1928[2] by the merger of Warner Gear,[2] which itself was founded in 1901,[2] and Borg & Beck[2] with roots to 1904,[2] along with two other companies. The company was best-known as the supplier of Warner Gear overdrive units for cars of the 1930s to the 1970s,[4] and as the developer of Ford's Ford-O-Matic three-speed automatic transmission introduced in 1950,[2] along with 'Holley' brand Borg & Beck carburetors.[2]

The company is also notable for co-developing the first major non-diesel application of a variable geometry turbocharger with Porsche, the Variable Turbine Geometry (VTG) system, used in the 2007 911 Turbo.[5] BorgWarner claims this technology will reach mainstream cars within 10 years.[5] From 2002, Peugeot, Ford and Renault become major customers for the company's turbochargers[2] with the Volkswagen Group coming on-board in 1999, choosing to exclusively use the BorgWarner K-Series turbochargers for their then-new 1.8T power plant.

Today, BorgWarner is currently the leading supplier of wet clutches and hydraulic modules for dual clutch transmission systems. With their DualTronic[2] technology, BorgWarner has gained contracts with European automakers[2] that want to use dual clutch transmissions. The German automotive concern Volkswagen Group is BorgWarner's largest customer (by sales),[1] and Europe is their largest market.[1] Light vehicles (automobiles, car-derived vans, and light commercial vehicles) account for 72% of BorgWarner's total sales.[1]

The company's World Headquarters is based in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Robert S. Ingersoll formerly served as the company's CEO and Chairman. BorgWarner's Powertrain Technical Center (PTC) is also based in Auburn Hills, Michigan.


Modernity is the era of production characterized by the rise of industrial capitalism and the hegemony of bourgeoisie. Thus it centered on the production of commodities and products which in the Marxian perspective modernity becomes oriented with production and materialism.

On the other hand, Baudrillard interprets modernity as a process of explosion of commodification, mechanization, technology and market relations and further, characterized by an increasing differentiation of spheres of life. Since modernity characterized by industrial revolution leading to an era of production, capitalism acquired the powerful status in an economic system. Although the remnant of Marxist economy is still preserved in some communist countries, undeniably, the proliferation of capitalism as an economic system made the grounds for globalization of economic, cultural, and political spheres.

This significant condition became fundamental in the global economy wherein every capitalist thrives to advance their business tied in with the pervasive and effective strategic planning in order to adapt with such phenomenal change within the basic spheres of the society. Moreover, this rapidity affected the modernization of the society, wherein it pushes itself to the post modern ideology. Thereby our society today, as most of the scholars and researchers would put it, is on the verge of post-modernity.

In global economy, post-modernity is not new at all. The rapid development in corporate management, organizational culture, and human resource management, are but cryptograms of post-modernity. Moreover, such occurrences in the economic landscape are not intended to intimidate entities which are slow and sluggish in response to the signs of the times, but, a matter of fact in which cannot be blamed to particular someone but to all.
 
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