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Market Analysis
A Q2 analysis of manufacturers, dealers and rental companies for 2013
Manfredi & Associates
Manufacturers and dealers are both reducing inventory, which is contributing to the reported drops in sales.
Data compiled and presented by Frank Manfredi.
Sensors
Inertial measurement sensors improve efficiency, safety in farm equipment
Honeywell Sensing and Control
The use of six degrees of freedom inertial measurement units as part of an electronic control unit can help improve the safety, and efficiency, of agricultural equipment.
The 6DF IMU 6-D Motion Variant provides six dimensional motion sensing over six degrees of freedom by sensing translational movement in three perpendicular axes (surge, heave, sway) and rotational movement in three perpendicular axes (roll, pitch, yaw).
Hardware
Advanced windscreen bonding solutions for heavy equipment and specialty vehicles
Henkel Corp.
Newly developed primerless windscreen adhesives help increase production time while eliminating the use of solvent-based primers which can be harmful to employees' health.
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Electronics
The ISOBUS-functionality concept
Agricultural Industry Electronics Foundation (AEF)
A new AEF ISOBUS database supports the complete agricultural public (users, dealers and manufacturers) in using the new, worldwide ISOBUS standard.
A screen shot of the soon-to-be-launched AEF ISOBUS database.
Trends
Mobile Pile Drivers
Historical Construction Equipment Association (HCEA)
Rapid construction of railroads heightened the need for fast-moving hammers, which encouraged the development of self-propelled pile drivers.
Self-propelled railroad pile drivers were built by Industrial Works as early as 1885, as evidenced by this Steam Pile-Driver Car.
Fluid Power
Do I need anti-cavitation valves?
Danfoss - Danfoss Power Solutions
How to determine whether an anti-cavitation valve is necessary for an application.
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Market Analysis
European market poised for two years of slow growth
Manfredi & Associates
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Market Analysis
Locomotive cranes
Historical Construction Equipment Association (HCEA)
With the development of railroads as a major form of land transportation, it was only logical that a rail-mounted crane should be developed.
This full-revolving crane, built by Industrial Works in 1886, was the first American-built true locomotive crane.
Market Analysis
Lessons For Doing Business in China
Manfredi & Associates
Cat and Siwei analyzed by OEM Off-Highway's Market Forecaster, Frank Manfredi, and how this reflects business dealings in China.
Market Analysis
Tractor Cranes Bring Increased Mobility to Early Construction Sites
Historical Construction Equipment Association (HCEA)
The tractor crane came about in two forms: one design was to have the tractor tow a boom mounted on crawlers or an axle, and the other was to mount the boom directly to the tractor.
Powered by a Caterpillar crawler tractor, a steel-wheeled forty-foot industrial version of R.G. LeTourneau, Inc.'s Tractor Crane places roof beams during expansion of LeTourneau's Peoria, IL, offices in January, 1941.
Market Analysis
Trucking along at a snail's pace
FTR Transportation Intelligence
New regulations and a slow-to-recover economy will keep the trucking industry at a slow to moderate growth rate through 2013.
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Electronics
The Universal Terminal
Agricultural Industry Electronics Foundation (AEF)
The Agricultural Industry Electronics Foundation (AEF) seeks common ground between electronic component manufacturers and OEMs and acts as the “round table” for ideas and shared goals to ultimately benefit the end user.
Incompatible equipment combinations are hampering the breakthrough of useful electronics applications.
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