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Higher Levels of Connectivity, Automation Drive Commercial Vehicle Sector
Increased and enhanced connectivity is a megatrend impacting all ground vehicles, from passenger cars to commercial vehicles to off-highway equipment. So it’s no...
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Modeling, Simulation Expand Their Role in Powertrain Development
Modeling and simulation continue to help suppliers and OEMs provide systems and vehicles that do more work while conserving fuel, reducing emissions and keeping costs in...
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
3D Printing Machines Can't Be Built Fast Enough, ORNL Expert Says
As Deposition Science and Technology Group Leader at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Ryan Dehoff facilitates the development of additive manufacturing of components,...
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Automatic Inflation System
Michelin Auto Inflate is a wheel-mounted tire management solution that allows fleets to automatically maintain optimal tire pressure. The system, powered by Halo in association with Aperia Technologies, can save...
Technical Innovation Manufacturing & Prototyping
Unique Piston Design Aids HD Diesel Waste Heat Recovery
Federal-Mogul will show its new Envirokool piston at the IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hanover in September. It’s designed to withstand higher temperatures by incorporating a sealed-for-life cooling chamber within the piston crown. The chamber is filled with a specifically formulated...
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Corrosion-Resistant Bearings Extend Equipment Lifetimes in Severe Environments
In harsh environments, relatively small problems like corrosion in a bearing can stop multi-million dollar vehicles where they stand. SKF and Textron are betting...
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Compact Pressure Sensors
For forklift trucks, telehandlers, and other logistical vehicles, the trend is moving toward more power in a smaller installation space and Rexroth supports this development with its PR4 series 10 pressure sensors. In...
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Automation, Electrification Focus of ZF’s Innovation Tractor Prototype
The passenger-car industry may be driving development of advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and electrification, but the off-highway segment may be...
News Propulsion
Custom, High-Performance Mufflers
Modular Exhaust, a division of GLSV, features custom sizing for three different shapes of mufflers—circular, elongated, and rectangular—as well as custom-shaped non-modular mufflers, which are available...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
All-Round View Camera System
The 360° Local Situational Awareness System (LSAS) from KTK Kommunikationstechnik and First Sensor consists of four digital HDR-CMOS cameras in specially adapted rugged housings and a software-based video...
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Absolute Encoder Series
Baumer’s absolute HeavyDuty encoder series HMG 10 and PMG 10 offer a resilient housing, optimally spaced fixed/floating bearings on both sides, and generously sized hybrid ball bearings. These features provide...
Product Briefs Test & Measurement
PXI Radio Frequency Multiplexers
Pickering Interfaces expands its range of PXI 50Ω 600MHz radio frequency (RF) multiplexers with 18 different configurations including a PXI two slot 32:1 configuration. This new range of PXI RF multiplexers...
Original Equipment Transportation
Western Star Launches Extreme Duty Offroad Package, New 'Transformer' Chassis
Western Star is known for its tough vocational trucks and now offers an off-road product that competes with the articulated and rigid frame markets. The truck...
Product Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Closed-Loop Control for Metal 3D Printing
Sciaky, Inc., a subsidiary of Phillips Service Industries, Inc., is highlighting its patented IRISS closed-loop control, which powers its Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing (EBAM) systems. IRISS,...
Product Briefs Electronics & Computers
Lightweight Thermal Camera Core
Boson from FLIR Systems is a small, lightweight, high-performance uncooled thermal camera for OEMs. Boson is claimed to be the first thermal camera core to incorporate a sophisticated, low-power, multi-core...
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Diesel Injector-Seat Cleaning Kit
A 17-piece kit from IPA Tools is designed to clean injector seats and bores on most light-, medium- and heavy-duty diesel engines. The kit is suited for removing carbon, rust and other debris from injector...
Original Equipment Electronics & Computers
Komatsu Doubles down on Intelligent Machine Control
Komatsu America recently revealed four new machines that expand the company’s new intelligent Machine Control family and help to demonstrate its vision of the "jobsite of the future."...
Product Briefs Materials
Additive for Fluoropolymer Coatings
Carbodeon has developed a new additive for fluoropolymer coatings, based on its uDiamond NanoDiamond technology. It targets solvent-based coatings used across multiple industries including automotive,...
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Medium-Pressure Axial Piston Pump
Liebherr-Components recently introduced its newly developed LH30VO axial piston pump of swash plate design. The medium-pressure pump complements the existing product portfolio in the range of 280-bar...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
International Truck Offers Over-The-Air Programming for 2017 Cummins Engines
Building on the introduction of over-the-air (OTA) programming for its proprietary engines, International Truck is now offering OTA programming for Cummins...
Product Briefs Propulsion
Engine Oil Drain Valve
The new, patent-pending Fumoto SX-series of engine oil drain valves is comprised of two fully integrated parts: the through bolt and oil-flow control body. The SX can rotate 360°, which allows orientation to achieve a...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Low-Pressure Carburizing Furnace
Ponar Wadowice S.A. signed a contract for the May 2016 delivery of a Seco/Warwick CaseMaster Evolution (CME) low-pressure carburizing (LPC) furnace, the first such furnace purchased by the company. Ponar...
Product Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Hydraulic Position and Motion Control Systems
Power-Packer’s custom hydraulic position and motion control solutions include systems for tilting, latching, leveling and stabilizing. A line of hydraulic stabilization legs ranges from...
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Stabilizer Cylinders
RAM mechanical locking stabilizer cylinders assist operators in positioning equipment at a desired location and height faster and more accurately than traditional manual jacking and blocking methods. Integration of RAM...
Product Briefs Materials
Wear-Resistant Pumps
Duechting Pumpen’s WRX single-stage centrifugal pumps were developed for the transportation of abrasive materials and are suited for use in dredgers and other applications in the mining and processing of gravel and sand....
News Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Maintenance-Free Bearings
Aurora Bearing offers maintenance-free PTFE lined alternatives to fractured race and light series spherical bearings used in hydraulic cylinders in both metric and inch dimension series. The bearings are best used in...
Product Briefs Power
3D Laser Scanner
The new version of the MetraSCAN 3D laser scanner from Creaform is 12 times faster than the previous version and can tackle black, multicolored, and shiny surfaces with metrology accuracy for applications directly on the shop...
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Fastener Tightening Compound
VibraTite VC3 from ND Industries is designed for use on internal and external threads of virtually any material or finish. Fasteners with VC3 preapplied by ND Industries arrive dry to the touch and ready for...
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The Race to Engineer Robotic Personal Mobility
In her year-end LinkedIn post last December, GM CEO Mary Barra predicted that “2016 and beyond will be pivotal in terms of how people around the world will get from Point A to Point B…Game...
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