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Software's Growth Shines Spotlight on Eliminating Defects
Software’s becoming a greater factor in vehicle development, prompting a heightened focus on reducing the number of defects in code. Early planning, discipline, and continuous...
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Standards Step Forward in Design of Off-highway Electronics
Functional safety has become a watchword in many fields as regulators and product developers attempt to ensure that failures will be minimal, and that safety isn’t impaired when...
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Advanced Simulation Aids Heavy-Truck Aerodynamics
There is more pressure than ever on heavy-truck engineers to find and create significant improvements in fuel economy and reduce tailpipe greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This is being driven...
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High-Integrity, Low-Cost Aluminum Components Produced by Semi-Solid Casting
Semi-solid casting is a near-net shape casting process that is capable of producing extremely high-quality castings. It differs from all other casting processes as...
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MTU Engines, and Engineers, to Reap Benefit of New R&D Test Facility
In late July, a €40 million, 9000-m² test facility in Friedrichshafen, MTU’s lead site and main R&D location, officially went into service. The new five-story...
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Energid Actively Working on Simulation Technologies for Lunar and Planetary Rovers
For obvious reasons, conditions on lunar and planetary surfaces can understandably be hard to duplicate physically, even in the best case when they are...
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Additive-Manufacturing Database
The Senvol Database is a searchable database for industrial 3-D printing machines and materials. Users can search by over 30 fields, including machine build size, material type, and tensile strength. A design...
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Noise Joins Exhaust Emissions on Industry Challenge List
Off-highway vehicles may not move at the same speed as trucks or other large road vehicles, but that in itself presents challenges that on-road vehicles do not face. As emissions...
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Multiphysics Modeling and Simulation Apps
COMSOL has released COMSOL Multiphysics software version 5.1, which the company claims is the first and only integrated simulation environment for building multiphysics models and for creating and...
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The Formula for Innovation: Customer Collaboration with Applications Engineering
The global mobile equipment market is always evolving and adapting to meet customers’ needs, driven by new government regulations, as well as market demands for...
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Comprehensive Simulation Environment
ANSYS 16.0 delivers advancements across the company's entire portfolio, including structures, fluids, electronics, and systems engineering solutions, providing engineers with the ability to validate...
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Variable Frequency Drive
The EFC 3600 variable frequency drive from Bosch Rexroth offers a solution for efficient process control application, improved through integrated controllers and an eight-step sequence control system. The...
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As Equipment Innovations Evolve, Tires Must Keep Up
Technological advances touch every aspect of our lives today. We wake up to alarms, read emails on smart phones, trust a GPS to tell us how to get to our locations, and shop online.
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LiuGong Builds Commitment to R&D into New China Hub
At Intermat, LiuGong announced that it was in a 60-day countdown before its new Global Research and Development Center opens in June. LiuGong, founded in 1958, currently directs close to...
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Off-highway Calibration Challenges — Big and Complex
The U.S. EPA Tier 4 Final emissions regulations are set for final phase-in during calendar year 2015. This final phase-in period focuses on large engines, producing greater than 560 kW...
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Development Trends for Heavy Engines
Compliance to today’s emission legislations for heavy-duty (HD) diesel engines in commercial vehicles (CVs) demands a reduction of NOx and particulate matter emissions in the entire engine operating...
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Software-Based Drive Functions
Siemens has extended the range of applications for its Sinamics S120 drives family with software-based advanced technology functions. The application-specific functions are synchronous operation (1:1 or with gear...
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Simulation Software
AVX updates the SpiCalci simulation software, an engineering tool that calculates performance characteristics and parameters for switch mode power supply (SMPS) capacitors. Featuring additions designed to improve user...
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Argonne, Convergent, and Cummins Team up to Simulate Fuel Injectors
Argonne National Laboratory announced that Cummins, Convergent Science Inc. (CSI), and Argonne’s Virtual Engine Research Institute and Fuels Initiative (VERIFI) entered...
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University of Wisconsin Researchers Develop Mobility Analysis Tool for Military Applications
Despite the integral role that off-road vehicles play in combat and military operations, researchers do not currently have the ability to...
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Variable Speed Drive
The Rexroth Sytronix SVP 7010 is a ready-to-install variable-speed pump drive offering high dynamics and control accuracy with reduced energy consumption and lower noise levels for hydraulic systems. Suited for a range of...
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Coolant Heating Solutions
Thermo Pro 90 and Thermo Pro 50 engine-off coolant heating systems from Webasto are designed for use in specialty commercial vehicles and off-highway equipment. Both offer automatic high altitude adjustment up to...
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Making Virtual Vehicle Design a Reality
With products more and more diverse and growing vehicle portfolios on the market, variant management has become of enormous significance in coping with challenging cost and quality requirements. Modular...
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A Hundred Innovations for Renault’s Eolab Concept
When Renault prepares a motor show concept, it invariably does so comprehensively. But for Paris this year it has excelled itself, claiming that its ultra-lightweight Eolab environmental...
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Seeking Validation at Navistar
As Chief Engineer, Vehicle Engineering at Navistar Inc., Craig Birkett (SAE member, 1983) oversees the entire validation process for Navistar vehicles, including testing and simulation. Having spent many years...
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Calibration and Complexity
The task facing calibrators is not getting any easier. “The complexity of calibration exploded exponentially when the Tier 4 emissions regulations were introduced,” explained Paolo Di Martino, Business Unit...
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Tata AutoComp, Magna Team to Develop Commercial-Vehicle Seats in India
Tata AutoComp Systems Ltd. and Magna International Inc. recently entered into a 50/50 joint venture agreement to provide seating systems to the Indian commercial vehicle (CV) and bus industries.
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‘Minecraft' Getting Kids into Coding
Stephen Foster, CEO and Co-Founder of ThoughtSTEM, has a new outlook on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education and the utilities that can be used to get kids involved in software coding.
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Caterpillar Joins Argonne's VERIFI Team to Undertake Cooperative Virtual Engine Design
Caterpillar has entered into a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the DOE's Argonne National Laboratory and its Virtual Engine...
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