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FPT Plans Engines for Complex Market
Expected in 2019, the impending European Stage V emissions regulations for off-highway engines will remain top of the agenda for FPT. EU regulators will limit both particle number, or PN, as well as...
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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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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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Lightweighting to Improve Off-Highway Emissions
In many segments of the ground-vehicle industry, lightweighting is a hot topic, and yet the off-highway segment lags behind in terms of more eco-friendly vehicle design. However, legislative...
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Waste Heat Recovery for the Long Haul
The FPT Industrial range of engines currently achieves a brake thermal efficiency (BTE) of approximately 46%, which is higher than comparable engines on the market today. However, through a series of...
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HMIs Extend Beyond the Cab
Human-machine interfaces (HMIs) are evolving in multiple paths — they’re becoming a more important product differentiator while also expanding their control functions outside the vehicle. As connectivity...
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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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Oshkosh’s $30B Humvee Replacement Makes Soldier Protection a Top Priority
First there was the Jeep. Then came the Humvee. Now, the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) will soon enter production as the 21st century mobility machine for the...
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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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Fuel-Saving KERS for Big-Rig Trucks
The average European heavy-duty truck burns from 31 to 38 L of diesel fuel per 100 km of travel (6 to 8 mpg), according to European Commission estimates and truck magazine tests. That might sound like low...
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APUs save Fuel, Serve as Driver Retention Tool
The American Trucking Associations (ATA) estimates the current shortage of drivers is roughly 35,000 to 40,000. The inability to find new drivers is a reality that many fleets face today, and...
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Case Shifts to Enhanced Communications, LEDs
Case IH has enhanced its electronic features and functions, adding ISOBUS Class 3 capabilities and beefing up its Advanced Farming Systems (AFS) communications technology. In a broad product...
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GHG Phase 2 Regs, Autonomous Vehicles Present Challenges, Opportunities
PACCAR Technical Center works closely with all of the company’s truck divisions—DAF in Europe, Peterbilt and Kenworth in North America and globally—and has two...
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Honda's New Pioneer 1000 Side-By-Side Gets Purpose-Built 999-Cc Engine, Industry-First DCT
Honda has developed two new full-size side-by-side (SxS) models—the Pioneer 1000 and 1000-5—to complement its 2016 lineup, which also includes...
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Customizing, Updating Software Gets Easier
Programmers are constantly finding new ways to make it simpler to alter software—whether they’re changing programs for a new vehicle or updating software in the field. While some development...
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Autocoding Shortens Development Time, Simplifies Validation
Software continues to become a more important factor for providing new features and functions, making code writing and validation a mainstay of design cycles. Automated code...
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U.S. Army Shifts from Radios to VoIP Technology
The U.S. military is moving closer to its goal of letting disparate groups of warfighters communicate freely. The U.S. Army has adopted an Internet Protocol-based communications system that...
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Operator Safety, Productivity Focus of Volvo CE's Crawler Excavator
Incorporating a Volvo Tier 4 Final D4 engine, Volvo Construction Equipment's new EC160E crawler excavator offers an 8% improvement in fuel efficiency, and 5% improvements...
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Electromechanical Heavy-Duty Cylinders
Ready to install, electromechanical heavy-duty cylinders from Rexroth enable freely programmable motion sequences, even at high forces. The units are suitable for machinery and equipment as well as for...
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MEM Inertial Accelerometer
The Model 1525 Series microelectromechanical (MEM) variable capacitive accelerometers from Silicon Designs Inc. are a low-cost, integral, inertial accelerometer family. The nitrogen-damped, hermetically sealed...
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DEF Filters
Clean Solutions, a division of Donaldson Co., has introduced a convenient, effective solution to deliver clean diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) to protect selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems on vehicles and equipment. The...
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Conveyor Coating System
mycon GmbH recently implemented and commissioned the first coating device that it fully developed during the past several years, for a large industrial company in Ostwestfalen-Lippe. The customer’s inquiry led to the...
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John Deere Electronic Solutions' Modular Inverter for Hybrid Electric Vehicles
John Deere Electronic Solutions developed its PD400 modular inverter for high voltage/high power hybrid electric off-highway and heav-duty vehicles. The...
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Cat Pipelayers Offer Power and Comfort to Operators
Independent, variable-speed winches for the boom and hook provide precise control, and an enhanced counterweight system ensures a low center of gravity in Caterpillar's new PL72, PL83, and...
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Komatsu America Adds to Intelligent Machine Lineup
The long track, low ground pressure D65PXi-18 introduced recently by Komatsu America Corp. was designed specifically for functionality in soft or wet conditions, offering improved stability...
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High-Performance Roto-Translating Valve for Fault-Tolerant Applications
New X-by-wire systems under study for commercial and heavy-duty vehicles such as agricultural tractors are increasingly real autonomous systems, capable of autonomously...
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Alternative Starter
Mitsubishi Electric has launched its new, "full-featured" Diamond Power S60 (DPS60) starter as an upgrade for Freightliner and Western Star trucks using the Detroit DD15 and DD16 engines. Available through all North...
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