OEM Industry Update

On this week’s episode of OEM Industry Update, our colleague Becky Schultz, editor of sister publication Equipment Today, speaks with Brian Henning of John Deere about the benefits of the company’s 310 X Tier concept engineering machine that was demonstrated at The Utility Expo 2021. Advantages of the machine include operating inside of buildings or noise sensitive areas like hospitals. The design is intended to provide substantially lower daily operating costs, lower jobsite noise, enhanced machine reliability, and zero tailpipe emissions.

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On this week’s episode of OEM Industry Update, editor Sara Jensen speaks with Nick Block, Director, Global Marketing & Sales, John Deere Power Systems about electrification and engine technology trends in the off-highway equipment industry. Technology improvements are enabling electrification to become more common and helping to increase efficiency. Engines, however, will still be an important power source for many types of heavy-duty machines.

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Summary: On this week’s episode of OEM Industry Update, editor Sara Jensen speaks with Ryan Manthiri, Project Manager for Shell’s Starship 2.0 program. Several new technologies were utilized on the next generation of the concept truck which showed a high level of fuel efficiency gains could be achieved, demonstrating what is possible with technology that is available in the market today.

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On this week’s episode of OEM Industry Update, editor Sara Jensen speaks with Christian Sanz, the founder and CEO of Skycatch, a company which is developing technology for use in drones which can create repeatable, high-precision data. Information captured by the drone can be fed back to a fleet office to create models of the job site or sent to a piece of autonomous equipment to help map its route. In the future, the company is looking to offer this technology for integration directly into a piece of equipment to enable autonomous operation.

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This week on OEM Industry Update, editor Sara Jensen speaks with David Frank, Global Vice President of Commercial Sales- Engines & Batteries, at Briggs & Stratton, about the company’s Vanguard battery offering and electrification trends in the off-highway equipment industry. According to Frank, the company is continuing to develop new products and work with OEM partners to meet their application requirements. It also sees electrification as an enablement for robotics and autonomous operation.

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On this week’s episode of OEM Industry Update, editor Sara Jensen speaks with Sue Ozdemir, CEO, Exro, about how the company’s coil driver technology is being utilized to develop advanced eAxles. Exro’s coil driver provides a tighter level of control for electric motors to help better optimize torque profiles and thus improve performance of eAxles.

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On this week’s episode of OEM Industry Update, editor Sara Jensen speaks with Mihai Dorobantu, Director of Technology Planning and Government Affairs at Eaton, about current electric vehicle charging infrastructure technology and industry needs. Rapidly deploying a large number of electric vehicle chargers is the biggest barrier to increased market uptake, says Dorobantu.

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On this week’s episode of OEM Industry Update, editor Sara Jensen speaks with Scott Halley, Director, Strategic Technology, Lubrizol Additives and Gareth Fish, Technical Fellow, Industrial Additives, PhD, DIC, BSc (Hons), ARCS, CSci, CLS, GLGS about the impacts hybrid and electric vehicles are having on lubricants and greases. While many performance parameters for lubricants will remain, aspects such as material compatibility, thermal management and conductivity will now need to be taken into further consideration.

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On this week’s episode of OEM Industry Update, editor Sara Jensen speaks with Yonatan Geifman, CEO and co-founder of deep learning company Deci. Geifman discusses how those developing artificial intelligence (AI) based systems should start rethinking how they go about their designs to help overcome the current chip shortage. This shortage is not likely to end any time soon, necessitating software developers to adapt their processes to utilize new methods and multiple hardware platforms. 

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On this week’s episode of OEM Industry Update, editor Sara Jensen speaks with Kim Heybroek, Research Engineer at Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE), about a digital hydraulic actuator the company is currently developing. The company is partnering with Norhydro on the actuator and has matured it enough to begin testing it in construction equipment. Volvo CE sees the digital actuator providing efficiency improvements as the inclusion of electronics helps to provide more precise performance.

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