July/August 2014

OEM Off-Highway July/August 2014
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The lightweight, semi-flexible eNow solar panels are less than 1/16th inches thick to provide low overhead clearance and wind drag.
Electronics
Charged by the power of the sun

The Lightning Hybrids hybrid system is well suited for use on vehicles making a lot of stops and starts throughout the day, including city buses and delivery vehicles.
Drivetrains
Accumulate power to reduce fuel costs
All Big Data management systems, have three major elements: smart sensors or devices to collect data from the vehicle; a network infrastructure to transmit the collected data, and an IT infrastructure and analytic software to make sense of the data in a way that is valuable to the user.
Electronics
Big Data: What is it, really?
All Big Data management systems, have three major elements: smart sensors or devices to collect data from the vehicle; a network infrastructure to transmit the collected data, and an IT infrastructure and analytic software to make sense of the data in a way that is valuable to the user.
Electronics
Big Data: What is it, really?
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Brake System
Patiently waiting
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Brake System
Patiently waiting
Foresight into the eventual need for an emissions-free underground mining utility vehicle caused a seven year waiting game while technology caught up with the idea.
July 7, 2014
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Drivetrains
A destined hybrid of intention and collaboration
The mounting acceptance and rapid advancement of hybrid drive system technology is paving the way for energy and fuel savings that have gone unrealized until late.
July 7, 2014
The drivetrain technology utilizes a Tier 3 or Tier 4 engine driving a 227 kW switch-reluctance generator with step up gearing to produce electrical energy. Alternators and starter motors are eliminated to improve system reliability.
Engineering & Manufacturing
Swing booms and end booms for tractors
Swing booms saw much use by the Armed Forces in World War II, but were not designed for picking, carrying and placing long sections of pipe for civilian use.
June 16, 2014
The problems involved in placing pipe with an end boom are illustrated by this rather crude rig, designed by R. G. LeTourneau for a Cat Sixty and used by his construction company on the grading contract for Southern Pacific Railroad's Carquinez Bridge approach in Benicia, CA, in 1929. Ballasted by sandbags, it provided ample capacity for a single section of pipe, but was unable to carry long strands along the trench.
Manufacturing
Design for excellence
How manufacturers can reduce costly design mistakes early on.
March 19, 2014
Figure 1: ECO breakdown
Manufacturing
Operational Excellence drives growth for OEMs
When a manufacturer has a product that is highly customized with long production cycles measured in days, weeks and months rather than minutes, traditional lean practices must be modified to be leveraged for benefit.
February 24, 2014
Graph 2. Source Citation: Duggan, Kevin J., Design for Operational Excellence: A Breakthrough Strategy for Business Growth (New York, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011), 20.
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