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Productivity, Uptime, and ROI Driving Equipment Purchasing Decisions
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Productivity, Uptime, and ROI Driving Equipment Purchasing Decisions
Engines
Diesel Will Remain Dominant
FPT Industrial
A crucial balance for engine manufacturers is being able to offer OEM and end-user customers individual solutions, while investing in the future technologies of engine systems.
Oscar Baroncelli
Agriculture
The Future of Farming and Diesel
New Holland Agriculture
New Holland Agriculture is looking ahead and finding ways to create a tangible vision of the future of its industry and how it plans to power agricultural equipment in a sustainable and efficient manner.
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Trends
Rubber-Tired Pushloading Dozers
Historical Construction Equipment Association (HCEA)
Three distinctive developmental routes were used to create wheeled tractors for pushloading applications.
With the double-jointed articulation typical of this design, the Allis-Chalmers 555 push tractor had a turning radius of roughly half its length. It was offered only in 1962 and 1963.
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Engines
A Misconception of Diesel's Dissolution
Eberspaecher
The conversation of diesel's eventual elimination is unrealistic for some, especially if CO2 levels can be better managed.
John D 004
Manufacturing
Electropolishing vs. Passivation – Which is Best for Your Parts?
Able Electropolishing
Poppet valve after electropolishing
Agriculture
"Green Future – Smart Technology" – Opportunities and Challenges of Digitization in Agriculture
German Agricultural Society (DLG)
Prof. Dr. Hans W. Griepentrog, University of Hohenheim, overviews the benefits and potential drawbacks of agricultural equipment digitization in the lead up to DLG's Agritechnica 2017.
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Construction
The Rubber-Tired Dozer
Historical Construction Equipment Association (HCEA)
The advent of pneumatic rubber tires enabled the development of a wheeled alternative to crawler tractors which could provide increased speed and mobility in certain applications.
The ancestor of all wheel dozers is this diminutive machine, a John Deere D farm tractor outfitted in 1936 with an experimental blade designed by R. G. LeTourneau.
Software
Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff
Siemens Digital Industries Software (formerly Siemens PLM Software)
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) helps to design better off-highway vehicles.
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Engineering & Manufacturing
The Side-by-Side D9
Historical Construction Equipment Association (HCEA)
Seeking increased material handling, a double-vehicle solution was created placing two dozers next to one another with a shared, long dozer blade.
Caterpillar D9H crawler tractors in the SxS arrangement, with the standard 24-foot dozer. The Double Dude variant’s angle dozer was twice as long, and the tractors were offset 11 ft. to accommodate it.
Seals, Gaskets
Next-Generation Mobile Machinery Sealing
Freudenberg Sealing Technologies - NOK
Optimized combi and cassette seals for today’s market challenges.
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Trends
The Dual D9
Historical Construction Equipment Association (HCEA)
Instead of multiple tractors coordinating efforts behind a single scraper, a lead tractor was coupled with a second via a ball joint and operated by synchronized controls.
Caterpillar D9G crawler tractors with the Quad-Track Arrangement, shortly after the arrangement was introduced.
Trends
How do EVs and Autonomy Demands Effect the Off-Highway Powertrain Market?
IDTechEx
What is the Effect on the Off-Highway Powertrain Market from Growing Electric Vehicle and Autonomy Demand?
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