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Methane-Powered Concept Tractor from New Holland Trims Emissions, Operating Costs
New Holland Agriculture is ramping up its focus on vehicles that burn alternative fuels, unveiling the prototype for a methane-powered tractor set for...
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Portable Combination Measuring Instrument
The Yokogawa (Amersfoort, the Netherlands) DL350 ScopeCorder is a compact, fully portable measuring instrument available for capturing, displaying, recording and analyzing a wide variety of electrical...
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Oil Change Valve
Global Sales Group (Redmond, WA) offers a new and improved EZ Oil Drain Valve with optional hose connectors that can replace an existing drain plug for fast, clean and easy oil changes. According to the company, there is no...
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Cummins Reveals All-Electric Heavy-Duty Truck—just Ahead of Tesla
Two months after chairman and CEO Tom Linebarger detailed Cummins’ plans to transition from a diesel engine maker to a “power technology” provider (read:...
Product Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Automated Guided Vehicle Platform
Agile1500 Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) platform from Comau (Turin, Italy) features the flexibility to be deployed across a wide range of manufacturing and non-manufacturing scenarios. According to Comau, it...
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Engine Ion Sensor
Detroit Engineered Products (DEP) Inc. (Troy, MI) offers a commercial prototype of an Engine Ion Sensor that increases fuel economy, lowers hazardous emissions and can enable multiple fuel types. According to the company, the...
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BharatBenz Delivers 50,000th Truck less Than Five Years After Market Launch
BharatBenz celebrated a milestone with delivery of its 50,000th truck less than five years after the brand's market launch.
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Blue Bird Adds Electric School Buses to Alt-Powertrain Portfolio
Blue Bird, a leading independent designer and manufacturer of school buses, is continuing to diversify its portfolio of alternative powertrains for its customers with the...
Product Briefs Aerospace
Nickel-PTFE-Nanodiamond Coatings
Nanodiamond material specialist Carbodeon (Helsinki, Finland) has worked with metal finishing specialist CCT Plating (Stuttgart, Germany) to develop a new electroless nickel polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and...
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More Intelligence Equals More Efficiency, Enhanced Functionality
Intelligent controls are continuing to reshape commercial vehicles, giving operators more functions and more space while also improving safety. Increasingly more powerful...
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Double-Digit Weight Loss Possible for Heavy-Duty Truck Drivelines
The solid-core axle and gearbox shafts on commercial trucks are targeted for weight reduction in an ongoing research project sponsored by two industry groups.
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Accumulator Design and Assembly Process
To address the disadvantages mainly in the traditional manufacture of diaphragm accumulators, Freudenberg Sealing Technologies (Weinheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany) developed a new approach—one that...
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Kubota Goes 'Big' with First-Ever 200-Hp Diesel Engine
Known for its compact diesel engines below 100 hp (75 kW), Kubota unveils its first diesel engine above that threshold, the 5-L V5009 with an output of 210 hp (157 kW) at 2200 rpm. The...
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Cummins Transitions from Diesel Engine to 'Power Technology' Company
When Tom Linebarger became chairman and CEO of Cummins Inc. in 2012, the company was still very focused on its core diesel engine technologies. However, the commercial and...
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Wave Spring Series
The Crest-to-Crest Wave Spring Series from Smalley (Lake Zurich, IL), which features the company’s C (imperial) and CM (metric) Series, has been expanded. Standard sizes are now available from stock down to 0.188 in and 5...
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Axial Piston Pumps
Hawe Hydraulics plans to show a variety of axial piston pumps at ConExpo/IFPE 2014, including the new V60N-130 pump type that is a member of the well-established V60N series. The company claims that the V60N-130 pump, in...
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Altair Enlighten Awards: 2017's Best Mass-Cutting Innovations
For the fifth consecutive summer in northern Michigan, the spotlight shone on vehicle mass-reduction innovations when Altair and the Center for Automotive Research (CAR)...
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Wärtsilä Virtualizes Marine Engine Design and Testing
The costs of building and running prototype engines are high, but they’re extremely daunting when each cylinder of a marine engine provides more than 1000 kW (1340 hp). That’s...
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Sleek Design, Powertrain Advances Distinguish Volvo’s New VNL Trucks
The new Volvo VNL series is the beneficiary of the truck maker's SuperTruck program, applying lessons learned and advanced technology to achieve an up to 7.5%...
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Expect Smarter Engines, More Compact Aftertreatment from JDPS
Dr. Xinqun Gui, Manager of Technology, Control Systems and Emissions Compliance for John Deere Power Systems (JDPS), considers himself to be “fairly conservative” in terms of his...
Product Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Heavy-Haul Planetary Drive Axles
Marmon-Herrington’s (Louisville, KY) new 90,000 lb (40,825 kg) Sisu tandem axle set and new 136,000 lb (61,690 kg) Sisu tridem axle set are double reduction planetary drive axles designed for heavy-duty...
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Synchronous Step-Down Controller
The LTC7800 from Analog Devices, Inc. (Norwood, MA), which recently acquired Linear Technology Corp., is a synchronous step-down DC/DC controller that operates at up to 2.25 MHz for reduced circuit size and...
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LVIT Linear Position Sensors
The ILPS-45 series inductive, contactless linear position sensors from The Sensor Connection (Bloomfield Hills, MI) use linear variable inductance transducer (LVIT) technology and are specifically designed for...
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Bulk Material Simulation
EDEM for ANSYS simulation tool from EDEM (Edinburgh, Scotland) enables engineers to add realistic bulk material loads as standard in ANSYS structural analysis without the need for Discrete Element Method (DEM)...
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‘Smart’ Oil Cap Brings Low-Cost Connectivity to Perkins Engines
Perkins launched what it calls the world’s first low-cost engine level telematics device—the Perkins SmartCap—at its Seguin, TX, facility in June. The “smart” oil...
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Connected Commercial Vehicles Bring Cybersecurity to the Fore
The 2017 edition of the SAE Commercial Vehicle Engineering Congress (COMVEC) has been moved up a month to September 18-20 and gets a new home in Rosemont, IL, not to mention a...
Product Briefs Electronics & Computers
8-In Color Display
MTA’s (Codogno, Italy) Sea Hawk 8-in color display has been chosen to be fitted on all seven models of CASE Construction Equipment’s new G-series wheel loaders, which were recently introduced on the market. The wheel...
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