February 2010
Sub-harmonic vibration saves time, money
Lufer Industria Mecanica SAhas more than 30 years of experience in reconditioning large parts and manufacturing replacement parts for heavy material handling equipment. It has a product mix of more than 8,000 items, representing a number of well-known off-highway equipment manufacturers.
December 2009
Lubricants - Going With The Flow
By Chad Elmore
With engine oil becoming increasingly complex, a specialist simplifies its message.
By Michelle EauClaire
Thermal Transfer Products and Sauer-Danfoss work together to provide information and solutions to the upcoming engine emissions challenges.
October 2009
By Michelle EauClaire
The 2009 ICUEE "Demo Expo" was a resounding success, despite the down economy.
New engine, technology for wheel dozer
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Komatsu America Corp. introduces the new WD600-6 wheel dozer equipped with a Tier 3 compliant engine.
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Caterpillar's 797F mining truck offers 4,000 hp with its 20-cylinder C175-20 ACERT engine.
June 2009
Vermeer, Miller Electric team for lean welding process
By Randy Broadwater and David Landon
The most successful manufacturing organizations in America speak a new language: that of lean manufacturing. Corporations that live lean daily use words such as one-piece flow, 5S and kaizen as part of an overall philosophy that sometimes is misunderstood. “Lean” is simply a manufacturing concept designed to provide the optimum framework for efficient, competitive production. The lean production system is a management philosophy that embraces all aspects of industrial operations by focusing on the reduction of waste from the value stream in order to remain competitive in a world driven economy.
May 2009
By Michelle EauClaire
Intermat held an air of patient frustration, with some companies cancelling at the last minute, others holding announcements and product releases until Bauma 2010, others proudly charging forward in this bleak time of economic instability and market insecurity, while some are taking the slow time to focus on research and development projects.
Machine development partnership leads to Innovation Awards
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The Mecalac 12MTX won two Intermat Innovation Awards, the Gold Award for Innovation in the Machinery category, as well as the Special Environmental Prize Green Award.
Two major components on the machine resulted in Mecalac's victories, Heinzmann's hybrid drive and Cummins B3.3 engine..
Fenix rises from the drawing board
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Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) has given its designers free rein to explore how machines might look in the future. The result is Fenix, introduced at Intermat 2009. Fenix is an environmentally and operator friendly asphalt paver that simplifies and cleans up the messy business of laying a road. Named after the mythical fire bird, Fenix represents a rebirth and renewal of the paving process..
New mobile crane type added to Grove product line
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Manitowoc launches a new Grove mobile crane, the GCK3045, which will open up new jobs for customers in a wide range of city center and indoor industrial projects.
The crane is the first from Manitowoc's Grove brand that is ideally suited for work in congested urban areas. These cranes are often referred to as city cranes. It was designed with a focus on maximizing possible applications for greater utilization..
Oil & Steel introduces five new products at Intermat
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Oil & Steel S.p.A., a Modena, Italy-based manufacturer of truck-mounted and tracked access platforms, introduced five new models at Intermat 2009, including a new Octopussy EVO series. The introductions helped reinforce Oil&Steel CEO Andrea Certo's claim that "we have the most complete and technologically advanced product range in the industry."
March 2009
OEM Off-Highway asks, "What does Sustainability mean to you?"
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Sustainability, green, carbon footprint — these terms have come to define a growing movement in our nation, but their definitions remain general. By asking component suppliers, OEMs and associations what sustainability means to them, we found each response to hold a unique and personal definition.
Chad Elmore
During the dawn of the automobile industry, quality petroleum-based fuel was in its infancy, and inventors looked for ways to pull energy from anything from coal dust to shea butter. At the 1900 Paris Exhibition, a small diesel engine was exhibited that ran on peanut oil. Pioneering motorists purchased their gasoline in glass jars from drug stores.
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Chad Elmore
To meet the U.S. EPA 2010 emissions standards for on-highway diesel engines, Navistar's MaxxForce engines will use advanced fuel injection, air management, electronic controls and proprietary combustion technology.
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Chad Elmore
Ricardo Inc., an independent engineering firm specializing in fuel economy and efficiency, recently announced technology that optimizes ethanol-fueled engines to a level of performance that exceeds gasoline engine efficiency and approaches levels previously reached only by diesel engines.
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February 2009
Clean Up That Mess!
Wire harnesses have become more sophisticated with the acceptance of CAN bus, and with more sophistication, comes a cleaner, simpler wire bundle.
Michelle EauClaire
The wire harness is an important, yet possibly overlooked, component of a mobile electrical circuit.
LOFA Industries President Peter Herbrand explains that his company builds its wiring harnesses as a way to help sell integrated packages with LOFA's control panels.
"Our core business is the controls for diesel engines," he explains. "We build the electronics and the wire harnesses which entails the engine wire harness that connects the panel to the engine. If the engine already has a wire harness, we'll adapt to the harness that's already on the engine."
