Mobile Machinery

Each year, the State of the Industry by OEM Off Highway evaluates key trends and technologies in the heavy equipment industries. The industry source looks at current and future market conditions, as well as regulations that are currently impacting or could impact how the industry develops its equipment in the coming years.

This article has been published first on iVT International By Arno Purkrabek, Team Lead Product Management at TTControl

Each year, the State of the Industry by OEM Off Highway evaluates key trends and technologies in the heavy equipment industries. The industry source looks at current and future market conditions, as well as regulations that are currently impacting or could impact how the industry develops its equipment in the coming years.

Rosenbauer’s rescue stairs

TTControl announced the launch of the high-performance TTC 2000 series of electronic control units (ECU) that are designed from the ground up to meet the needs of intelligent vehicles. The series consists of complete sets of compatible ECU families with different processing power, scalable according to advanced and automated off-highway applications. The first member of this series, the mid-sized TTC 2300 family, will kick off sales in March 2022 (even though Agritechnica has been canceled).

Rosenbauer’s rescue stairs A medical emergency, smoke in the cabin, or an evacuation – in the event of an incident on board an aircraft, action must be taken quickly and efficiently. Rosenbauer’s Aircraft Interior Access Vehicle, better known as rescue stairs, is designed to aid passengers and crew as quickly as possible in the event of an emergency.  

This article has been published first on ATZheavy duty worldwide By Arno Purkrabek, Team Lead Product Management at TTControl

Smart farming is more than a buzz word. By 2050, the global population will have grown by 2 billion to a total of 9.7 billion, according to the United Nations. Increasing agricultural productivity and sustainable food production is critical to provide this population with food. Smart farming achieved through Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies can create higher precision agriculture to help meet this demand.

In the past, farmers and contractors with a diverse fleet and implement pool from various manufacturers were not able to bundle machinery data on a single platform. This was solved by the agrirouter cross-manufacturer solution. Data can be easily exchanged between machinery and implements and agricultural software tools.

If any vehicle ought to be safe, it is a firefighting truck. A rising number of vehicle functions include collision avoidance technologies or crash sensor systems help firemen to do their most fundamental job better: saving lives. However, new functions may introduce new risks owing to increasingly complex electronic interactions.

First high-performance off-highway ECU family certified for road use under ISO 26262 by TTControl

Testing and validation processes typically account for 20 to 30 percent of development costs. The certification of TTControl's off-the-shelf electronic control units reduces these costs and enables faster time to market. The ISO 26262:2018 certification allows the use of the electronic controllers designed for rough operating conditions in road vehicle electrical and electronic (E/E) systems.

How to set up human-machine-interaction for more assisted and automated machinery? Efficiency and productivity are the main drivers of process automation of harvesters, excavators and material handling solutions. Manufacturers developing advanced off-highway machinery are increasingly demanding touch displays in growing size to create ergonomic workplaces with enhanced usability.

Australian-based haulage truck company Loadpro has more than 25 years of experience in developing “off-road” haulage trucks. Loadpro’s latest model is called X60. It is suitable for extended hauls and in applications where highway trucks and articulated trucks are not suited for. It is an attractive solution as it reduces cost and increases production in parallel. The X60 has significant benefits across various haulage applications in the mining, construction, oil and gas industries.