October 2015

OEM Off-Highway October 2015

This image from a Hein-Werner advertisement illustrates one of the problems faced by a truck-mounted backhoe: When a backhoe has to be moved to continue the trench, the operator has to change cabs twice rather than simply propelling from the excavator cab.

Truck-Mounted Hydraulic Excavators

Jim Hasler, Vice President, CASE Construction Equipment, North America

Equipment purchasers are making smarter buying decisions

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Electrohydraulics will be the key for future product development

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Electrohydraulics will be the key for future product development

Brian Bieller, Vice President & Business Line Manager, Road Construction Equipment, Mining, Rock Excavation and Construction LLC, Atlas Copco

Highway Bill holds promise

Market Analysis

Highway Bill holds promise

Tier 4 Final regulations as well as the necessary engineering and components associated with it have certainly increased costs of equipment for all manufacturers.

October 28, 2015

Brian Bieller, Vice President & Business Line Manager, Road Construction Equipment, Mining, Rock Excavation and Construction LLC, Atlas Copco

Tires get bigger, faster, stronger

Infrastructure improvements—highways, bridges, locks and dams—always have a huge impact on the construction and industrial tire markets.

October 28, 2015

Bruce Besancon, Vice President, Marketing, Alliance Tire Americas

Automated vehicles continue to drive future product development

One of the recent key offerings from dSPACE is the platform for virtual development and validation – VEOS.

October 28, 2015

Mahendra Muli, Director of Marketing and New Business Development, dSPACE Inc.

New product design and engineering talent crucial

Moving into 2016, industry requirements will continue to impact off-highway equipment design, making investments in new product design and engineering talent crucial for suppliers and OEMs that want to stay ahead of the curve.

October 28, 2015

Bob Straka, Business Development Manager, Transportation, Southco, Inc.

Technology gaps remain for hybrids

By and large, the most important government regulation affecting our business is the PTC for wind power. Here's why.

October 28, 2015

Fausto Carboni, CEO Business, Bonfiglioli Group

Simplification of systems with sensors

By automating processes, machine builders are addressing the need to simplify machine use for the operator – a slightly different yet important interpretation of “system simplification."

October 28, 2015

Luka Korzeniowski, Technical Marketing Manager, MTS Systems Corporation – Sensors Division

Sensors moving from mechanical to solid state

We all want the world to be a safer and greener place, and efforts of electrification and hybridization are key to supporting this.

October 28, 2015

TURCK's M8 Industrial Ethernet is compactly designed for use in applications with limited space, and is capable of transferring up to 100 Mbps of data.

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