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Hybrid Variety in Off-Highway
Perhaps the most interesting point about hybrids in the off-highway market is the sheer variety of architectures and energy storage choices.
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Electrified Off-Highway Powertrains Search for Marketing Power
Electrified powertrains have seen success in commercial applications like buses and small vehicles, but in many fields, they’ve seen only limited success. Today’s low fuel...
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Tech Mahindra Buys Controlling Stake in Pininfarina
Tech Mahindra Ltd. and Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) have jointly entered into an agreement with Pincar S.r.l. to purchase a controlling stake in Pininfarina S.p.A., an Italian brand...
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GE Scanner Enhances Defect Detection for Industrial CT
GE Measurement & Control is offering its proprietary scatter|correct technology to industrial microCT users of GE’s phoenix v|tome|x m CT (computed tomography) system. It provides...
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Gleaner Upgrades Cabins, Drives on S9 Series Combines
AGCO’s transverse rotary combine brand, Gleaner, will be debuting for 2016 its new S9 Series combines, which includes three models—the S96, S97, and S98—to meet the needs of...
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2016 Altair Enlighten Award Adds New Category to Honor Lightweighting Efforts
Nominations for the fourth annual Altair Enlighten Award are now being accepted, with the 2016 award program including two distinct categories recognizing vehicle...
Global Vehicles Transportation
Porsche and Bentley Plan Electric Future
Porsche and Bentley, two of the Volkswagen Group’s star premium performance players and now positioned to share advanced technologies, are heading for pure-electric production models, each...
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Surface Generation Speeds Composites Throughput with One-Shot Stamp-Forming Process
Surface Generation is working with research group WMG, an academic department of the University of Warwick, and AGC AeroComposites to develop new composite...
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2016 Civic Structure Employs 'First' Partial In-Die Soft Zones
The 2016 Honda Civic employs selectively-tempered in-die “soft zone” technology in the B-pillars and rear frame rails, allowing zones within a single frame piece to have...
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3-Phase Single-Step Power Correction in MilAero Systems
As OEMs seek advantages in Size, Weight, Power and Cost (SWaP-C), focus is shifting to advancements in power electronics. Gaining an advantage requires close attention not only to...
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Using Sensor Technology to Combat Legacy Issues in Defense Avionics
Reliance on aging military platforms has become a global concern and military aircraft today are expected to remain in service for longer than their original life cycles. This...
Articles Defense
Counterfeit Electronics in the DOD Supply Chain
Counterfeit semiconductor devices entering the Department of Defense (DOD) supply chain continue to pose risks to many of our country’s most sophisticated aerospace and defense systems. However,...
Articles Aerospace
Touch and Go
Since the digital revolution changed forever the pilot’s working environment, innovators and suppliers of cockpit systems have strived to provide a continuous stream of new developments and products that offer increasingly...
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Sandwich Cores for the Future
The search for lighter weight, stronger materials to construct airplanes and spacecraft remains as important as ever. But it takes a long time for new materials in aerospace structures to make their way into...
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Making AESA Radar More Flexible
A modular, building-block approach brings greater design flexibility to Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar technology, simplifying system integration, and permitting rapid first-line repair with no...
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Developing Secondary Surveillance Radar Automated Test Equipment
Unlike primary radars, Secondary Surveillance Radar (SSR) calculates the range and azimuth of a target, such as an aircraft, using a bidirectional communication link to gather...
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Aircraft Casting Alloy
IBC Advanced Alloys Corp. Wilmington, MA 855-237-2522 www.ibcadvancedalloys.com IBC Advanced Alloys Corp. will continue production of components for Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II Electro-Optical Targeting System...
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War-Game Simulation Software
MASA Group Paris, France +33 1 55 43 13 20 www.masagroup.net Military training tools must work effectively with reduced staff numbers and simulate a large variety of situations. Following 12 years of collaboration,...
Application Briefs Test & Measurement
VPX Chassis for Missile System
VerotecManchester, NH603-821-9921www.verotec.us Using a hit-to-kill approach, a US Army anti-ballistic missile system called Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) is designed to shoot down short, medium, and...
Technology Update Defense
Signal Compression Technology Enables E-Fan's Flight, Potential Enhanced 'Black Box' Possibilities
V-Nova Ltd. demonstrated the capabilities of its PERSEUS data compression technology for aerospace applications as part of Airbus’ all-electric...
Technology Update Defense
TRB Turns Composites Focus to Aerospace Sector
TRB Lightweight Structures Ltd. recently released an aerospace-grade lightweight honeycomb composite panel designed for interior applications, expanding the application areas for its range of...
Technology Update Defense
Preparing for First Flight on Mars
With its eye on Mars, NASA Armstrong has been working on a prototype it refers to as the Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to Land on Mars, or Prandtl-m, which is “a flying wing aircraft with a...
Global Vehicles Transportation
Sports Cars Take Center Stage in Tokyo
Once upon a time, the Tokyo Motor Show was considered one of its biggest. However, not anymore, in terms of its acreage, numbers of exhibit brands, and visitors; it is now dwarfed by such Asian...
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2017 Ford Escape Gains Major NVH, Powertrain, Connectivity Upgrades
Ford’s 2017 Escape gains a new "face" and many technologies under the skin, as part of a significant mid-cycle refresh as the compact utility enters its 15th year of...
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Cummins Aims to Boost Heavy-Duty Diesel Efficiency to 55%
The big-rig tractor-trailer trucks that we see on the highway get only about 5.8 mpg of diesel fuel. In tests, the Cummins-Peterbilt SuperTruck—a U.S. Department of...
Global Vehicles Automotive
2017 Cadillac XT5 Debuts GM’s New Lightweight Crossover Architecture
XT5 stands for Crossover Touring 5, Cadillac’s all new midsized luxury utility unveiled recently at, of all places, a high-end fashion show in Dubai. Slated to replace...
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Daimler Trucks' Lessons Learned from SuperTruck Program
Daimler Trucks North America has referred to its $40 million, five-year SuperTruck program that concluded earlier this year as “a playground for our engineers.” Overseeing this...
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Fuel Cell Futures No Longer a Dream
The knock on fusion power is that “It is the energy source of the future, and it always will be.” It has seemed like the same criticism could be levied against fuel cell vehicles, as their seemingly...
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Evaluating New Forestry Machines in a Fraction of the Time
The predominant forest harvesting method used in northern Europe is cut-to-length logging (CTL). CTL is based on a two-machine solution—a harvester is used for felling, delimbing,...
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