Four Decades of Transmission Engineering. One Patented Platform.
Great transmission technology is rarely invented from scratch. It is inherited, refined, and re-engineered — generation after generation, by the same core group of engineers — until it reaches a form worth protecting. That is the story behind Dziuba Gears.
The Problem That Started It All
Long before Dziuba Gears existed, our founder's father was a vehicle and transmission engineer at Kramer, co-inventor of the Kramer 1014 — a four-wheel tractor with a rotating driver's seat built for agriculture. Mercedes-Benz later acquired the concept and built it into the legendary MB-Trac — carrying over the very same weakness: slow, inefficient reverse travel, a direct limitation of the transmission technology of its time. That single flaw became the question that would drive four decades of engineering work.
The search for an answer continued at ZF (Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen and Zahnradfabrik Passau), where the same engineer encountered hydrostatic transmissions for the first time — and later at Fendt, where he led development of the Fendt Vario transmission, launched in 1995 at Agritechnica. The Vario used a wide-angle hydrostat with a 45-degree swivel angle, far beyond the 30 degrees standard at the time, unlocking significantly higher power output. It remains one of the most commercially successful CVTs in agricultural machinery today.
Refined at Mali, Scaled by Claas
The same engineer went on to lead transmission development at Mali, a company founded by Markus Liebherr to build a next-generation large tractor. There, working alongside a small team of specialist engineers, he developed the second generation of the technology — engineering that Claas ultimately acquired after its own in-house transmission program fell short. That acquisition became the foundation of today's Claas CMATIC transmission, deployed across the Claas Arion series and, according to public figures, built in more than 10,000 units worldwide.
Founding Dziuba Gears
In 2010, following the death of Markus Liebherr, the engineering team faced an uncertain future — but they already had the outline of a new, patentable transmission concept. Dziuba Gears was founded to give that team a home and a mandate: build the next generation.
The WSG Platform
The result is WSG_CORE — the first transmission in this lineage engineered for true symmetry: full power, full speed, in both forward and reverse. Built around a reversing planetary stage, it eliminates the very weak point that started this journey decades ago.
Built for What Moves Next
WSG_CORE is protected by patent filings spanning the major industrial and defense markets worldwide, covering two distinct architectures:
- Wheeled vehicles (WCVT / SWG)
- Tracked vehicles, using a twin-transmission architecture with independent control of each track — eliminating the traditional steering differential entirely
Both architectures are purpose-built for unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), wheeled and tracked alike, where joystick or by-wire control demands precise, symmetric performance in every direction of travel.
Four decades. Three generations. One team. A single platform, engineered to move forward — and backward — without compromise.