BRAKE PAD ARCHITECTURE
NRS FUSION
A new architecture for brake pad manufacturing
Premade friction. Galvanized steel. Mechanical retention. Faster development. NRS Fusion separates friction manufacturing from final brake pad assembly. The friction is manufactured as a finished puck, then mechanically pressed into a fully galvanized NRS Fusion steel backing plate.
SEPARATE FRICTION MANUFACTURING FROM FINAL ASSEMBLY
Fusion explained
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Pre-made friction puck
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NRS Fusion galvanized backing plate
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Finished brake pad
OEM DEVELOPMENT
How Fusion changes OEM development
Test the friction, not the manufacturing variables.
- Swap friction formulations without rebuilding the entire pad.
- Accelerate dyno and vehicle testing.
- Keep the backing plate architecture consistent across tests.
- Reduce development loops and potentially shorten program launch timing.
THE DEVELOPMENT LOOP
01 Form puck
02 Fuse
03 Test
04 Iterate
A new tool for friction and NVH engineers
Tune the pad in ways conventional integral molding makes difficult.
Different leading and trailing friction formulations on one pad
Finetune the bite, wear, fade, rotor interaction and NVH independently. Evaluate new friction concepts without changing the core steel platform, and create application-specific performance using modular friction.
A CLEANER FINAL ASSEMBLY PROCESS
How manufacturing gets simpler
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1. Friction. Premade and cured independently.
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2. Steel. Precision Fusion plate, fully galvanized.
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3. Assembly. Low-complexity mechanical pressing.
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4. Result. Finished mechanically retained brake pad.
Optimize friction and steel independently, then mechanically unite them at the end.
The Fusion value proposition
