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Software
Enhancing Off-Highway Vehicle Design Through Cross-Domain Collaboration
Mentor, A Siemens Business
ECAD-MCAD co-design helps eliminate costly electromechanical issues during vehicle development, ensuring the reliability, efficiency, and durability of electrical and mechanical systems.
Figure 1: New agricultural tractor cabins are equipped with electronic controls and multiple displays.
Trends
Pull Grader Power Ratings
Historical Construction Equipment Association (HCEA)
Choosing the appropriate power supply was an important factor to consider when selecting a pull grader.
Towards the end of the horse-drawn era, this aptly named Galion Pony grader is drawn by its properly rated horse power.
Electronics
Engineering Ethernet into Commercial Vehicles
TE Connectivity Ltd.
Enabling advanced, data-heavy functionality means getting comfortable with integrating Ethernet into a mixed architecture.
The tremendous size of many off-highway vehicles can create challenges for signal integrity for Ethernet applications, requiring adoption of the 40-m standard.
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Observations from ACT Expo 2019
Electrification was the predominantly showcased alternative technology, demonstrating its growing use within various vehicle and equipment industries.
Bosch is providing several advanced technologies for use on the new Nikola hydrogen fuel cell powered Class 8 truck (learn more, 21064821).
Trends
Shifting Power Sources: The Emerging Role of Electrification in Heavy-Duty Equipment
Waytek, Inc
Examining benefits and challenges as heavy-duty on- and off-highway equipment incorporate electric-powered systems.
Komatsu’s electric excavator.
Trends
Pull Grader Basics
Historical Construction Equipment Association (HCEA)
Several elements came together to create the pull grader design we know today.
The first modern four-wheel grader, Samuel Pennock’s American Champion of 1877. It was also the first to have an adjustable rear axle. Its design was essentially unchanged until 1925.
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Trends
Combination Rollers
Historical Construction Equipment Association (HCEA)
By combining two types of rollers into one machine, ownership and operating costs can be reduced without sacrificing performance.
A Hamm DV 6 K combination in its natural environment.
Trends
Landfill Compactors
Historical Construction Equipment Association (HCEA)
Equipment purpose-built for compacting garbage made its entrance into the market in the 1960s.
1966 advertisement for the Pactor Trashmaster, the earliest known purpose-built landfill compactor.
Safety
Cyber Threats Are No Match for Cyberhardening
RunSafe Security
Off-highway vehicles, by nature, are susceptible to cyberattacks considering telematics and open architecture communication networks.
Trends
Vibratory Drum Compactors
Historical Construction Equipment Association (HCEA)
The first vibratory drum compactors were single drums towed behind crawler or wheel tractors, and progressed from the use of smooth drums to padfoot drums for deeper embankment compaction.
This 1968 Raygo 400 is part of its Rascal line, one of the most successful early series of self-propelled vibratory compactors.
Steering Control
The Military Vehicle Steering System
Pailton Engineering
Advancements in steering system engineering and testing means some military vehicles are better equipped to take on harsh operating environments.
Steering column manufactured by Pailton Engineering.
Trends
A Vision of the Connected Jobsite
Teletrac Navman
Once the assets of the jobsite are understood, users can get an enhanced end-to-end 360-degree view of the jobsite.
Mika Majapuro
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