Armonk, NY, and Ehningen, Germany - 03 Oct 2016: Schaeffler, one of the world's leading automotive and industrial suppliers, has signed a multi-year strategic partnership agreement with IBM to accelerate the digital transformation of its entire operations and customer solutions using Watson's cognitive intelligence and insight from billions of sensors that make up the Internet of Things . Schaeffler manufactures millions of precision-engineered products that help to keep the world's machines moving from those that go into automotive clutch systems, to those in hybrid engines and the huge industrial bearings used in wind turbines.