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Alternative Drive System for Wacker Neuson’s Smallest Excavator
At this year’s Intermat, Dieter Freisler, Regional President, Wacker Neuson, emphasized that the company plans in the future to “always have double digit growth,” and...
News Energy
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...
Product Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Additive-Manufacturing Alloys
NanoSteel expands its additive manufacturing (AM) material capabilities to support metal 3-D printing of complex high-hardness parts and to customize properties through gradient material design. By delivering...
News Manned Systems
Specialty-Material Seal
Zurcon Glyd Ring D from Trelleborg Sealing Solutions offers a combination of improved sealing performance and service life, through optimized contact pressure and minimized heat generated from friction. To achieve this,...
News Automotive
Molded Screen Insert Assemblies
Molded screen insert assemblies from Minnesota Rubber and Plastics are custom-designed for off-highway applications to filter out fluid contaminants and reduce product failure. Filter screen assemblies can improve the life of transmission and hydraulic systems by catching and easily removing small fluid contaminants...
Product Briefs Materials
Safety Screens
The Lee Company offers a wide variety of safety screens designed to protect critical fluid control components from rogue contamination. These screens are not intended to serve as system filters. Lee’s new boss mount strainers...
Product Briefs Power
High-Flow Motors
The MS05/MSE05 from Poclain Hydraulics benefits from a new valving, the design of which has been optimized to considerably reduce pressure drops.
News Aerospace
High-Strength Steels
SSAB has launched Strenx, a new high-strength structural steel product brand that offers an extensive portfolio of high-strength steels designed for sectors where structural strength and weight savings are key competitive factors, especially in the lifting, handling, and transportation industry, where product is lifted and...
Product Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Low-Alloy Steel for Injection Molding
Product designers and engineers can now get injection-molded low-alloy steel prototypes and low-volume production parts at rapid manufacturer Proto Labs, Inc., to complement the company’s existing...
News Automotive
Squeeze-Handle Actuator
Southco introduces the AC-50 squeeze handle actuator, featuring a squeeze-to-operate actuation and a curved design for mounting on rounded, tubular surfaces. The AC-50’s durable, corrosion-resistant construction was...
News Design
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...
News Materials
Nano-Coating for Corrosion Protection
Daubert Chemical’s next-generation Nox-Rust 1290HP, to be launched by the specialty coatings and adhesives manufacturer at the SAE 2015 World Congress in Detroit, uses nanoscale chemistry to boost...
News Green Design & Manufacturing
Tube Fitting for CNG Apps
The Tube Fittings Division of Parker Hannifin Corp. has expanded its Seal-Lok O-ring face seal tube fitting line to provide alternative-fuel application compatibility. Seal-Lok for compressed natural gas (CNG)...
Executive Viewpoints Robotics, Automation & Control
Building Blocks Toward Collaborative Innovation
Global trends of population growth, the consequent infrastructure replacement and expansion, and the basic need to feed people, combined with ever-increasing environmental concerns and...
Executive Viewpoints Transportation
Enabling the Future of Harvesting Through Flexible HIL Testing
It seems as though everywhere you turn today, you see a car commercial showing off new features and capabilities that brings us one step closer to the Holy Grail goal of...
News Transportation
Innovation Is at the Core of Engine Design
A new era in high horsepower (HHP) engine technology began on January 1, 2015, the official start date of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Tier 4 Final emissions regulations for...
News Automotive
CFD Helps Cut Tractor-Trailer Drag Coefficient by 10%
Air management for trucks is likely to be a focus for vehicle designers as manufacturers look to reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions to satisfy global regulations. That is the...
News Design
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.
News Transportation
Electrohydraulic Power Steering Pursued for Heavy-Duty Vehicles
Energy savings is one of the most significant concerns in the development of new vehicles, particularly power-steering systems, as over 70% of the fuel consumed by conventional...
Technology Report Manufacturing & Prototyping
Dana Reveals 'Dual-Range Disconnect' 6x4-6x2 Tandem Concept
Many technologies that improve the fuel efficiency of heavy trucks were announced at the recent Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS) in Louisville, KY, one such innovation being a...
Executive Viewpoints Internet of Things
Bringing Intelligence into Fluid Power Systems
In today’s world of hydraulics, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) must determine how to deliver innovative solutions that meet the stringent customer requirements for better efficiency,...
News Manned Systems
Truck Racing Demonstrates New Technology, Aero Design
Season two of the T1 Prima Truck Racing Championship took place this spring at India’s F1 track, the Buddh International Circuit (BIC), with Stuart Oliver of Team Castrol Vecton...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Hydraulics Still in Control of Off-highway Needs
Aggregations of electric vehicles will begin serving as “virtual power plants” to balance the electric grid by sourcing and absorbing power.
Articles Electronics & Computers
DEF Delivery Modeling for SCR Systems
Aggregations of electric vehicles will begin serving as “virtual power plants” to balance the electric grid by sourcing and absorbing power.
Articles Software
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...
Articles Power
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...
News Energy
Western Star Focuses on Efficiency for New 5700XE
Fuel efficiency is increasingly becoming a significant driver in truck OEMs’ vehicle development plans, and that certainly was the case when Western Star set out to develop the all-new...
Technical Innovation Transportation
GKN Develops Electric Flywheel Hybrid System for Buses
The core of GKN’s Gyrodrive flywheel hybrid system was developed by Williams Hybrid Power for a kinetic energy recovery system (KERS) designed for the Williams F1 team. GKN acquired...
News Energy
New Yeast Strain Enhances Biofuel Production
A team of researchers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a new, mutant yeast strain that could lead to a more efficient and economical...
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