Trackunit and Danfoss Announce Integration Partnership

Trackunit and Danfoss have announced a partnership aimed at integrating their respective expertise to help ease pain points among their shared OEM customers. Data from Danfoss components will be made available in Trackunit Manager while data from Trackunit Raw will now be accessible for Danfoss customers via Danfoss’s Plus+1 service tool.

“This really is two experts from the construction industry coming together and forging a partnership that will make it much easier for customers to get the information they need to make business-critical decisions,” said Davide Manca, Danfoss’s vice-president, Connect Controls Solutions. “At one end of the spectrum, we have our decades-long, domain knowledge in systems and components for the industry and at the other, there is Trackunit’s expertise in connectivity as a leading software provider to construction.

“Customers will now have one entry point leveraging Trackunit’s connectivity and accessing Danfoss’s solutions more easily,” said Manca. “By putting these together, we’re looking at a transformational leap for the customer experience, especially as we move towards the era of over-the-air solution updates and on-site network opportunities.”

The partnership will enable remote diagnostics, parameter settings, and eventually deliver OTA software updates for shared customers through Trackunit's network, allowing them to use existing solutions while connecting to Danfoss systems.

The collaboration aims to solve customer pain points by providing a single integrated solution that reduces downtime and service costs, particularly for machine OEMs who currently face expensive field maintenance and update procedures.

“By integrating the two technologies, we are creating a customer experience that doesn’t currently exist,” said Søren Brogaard, CEO of Trackunit. “We have thousands of customers with equipment built using Danfoss components. However, without this partnership, accessing critical data from these components would be cumbersome and costly. By working together, we are making it significantly easier for our mutual OEM customers to access the information they need without considerable expense and resource.

“It's an integrated solution where on the one side, Danfoss is delivering insights and updates that are more accessible via Trackunit’s single entry point,” said Brogaard.

Brogaard also highlighted the role Trackunit’s operating data platform IrisX will play in the partnership going forward. “Through IrisX analytics, we will provide joint customers with actionable insights, enabling significant productivity gains across the industry”, he said. “It will give them confidence in their decision making and enable them to make gains that give them competitive advantage.”

The partnership will also enable customers to meet the EU Machinery Directive stipulations that were published in 2023.

“We’re arriving at a critical market moment given the impact of the EU Machinery Directive,” said Manca. “Before, there wasn’t really a way to meet the requirements of the directive now without extreme expense involving technicians going to each machine individually and updating them at the cost of millions of euros.

“By working together like this with remote solutions, we can solve these challenges at a fraction of the cost enabling us to set up our joint customers for success,” he said.

Brogaard said: “Over time, this partnership will create room for even deeper insights at the component level while creating an environment that fosters autonomy. It’s a significant step toward a future of connected machines, equipment and components and deeper collaboration across the ecosystem, with both companies working together to create easier access for customers and streamline their product offerings.

“It will eventually lead to a much more evolved construction project management process than we see today and that will ultimately help the industry in its longstanding battle to eliminate downtime,” he added.