Dana Incorporated has brought new vehicle handling technologies, adding a high-efficiency low-voltage engine for electrical applications, such as a new series of high-efficiency modular motor axles for Class 1, 4 and 5 commercial forklifts.
New technologies demonstrate how Dana offers modular systems that screw and incorporate fully approaches to vehicle design. Dana’s flexibility is helping brands reduce system complexity, shorten the progression and advent of new products, and facilitate the arrival of inventions into the vehicle’s life cycle.
Dana’s diversity of Spicer shafts, transmissions and drive shafts for classic programs is driven through internal combustion engines, such as a complete diversity of electric motors, inverters and controllers for low- and high-voltage programs ranging from 24 to 800 volts.
In addition, Dana supplies motion systems for painting purposes, as well as complex sensors and controls developed to optimize productivity, maximize service life and maintenance.
“Performance, power and modularity are the main desires of handling device manufacturers,” said Aziz Aghili, president of Dana’s off-road driving and movement systems. “Dana’s new generation of inventions offers the lowest overall burden of ownership by helping device buyers meet the demanding situations of Industry 4.0, man-machine communication, autonomous vehicle operations, great knowledge, and end-to-end digitization of source chain processes.
New low voltage and high efficiency motor.
Dana has introduced a new 48-120/144 volt internal internal internal synchronous grid magnet (SRIPM) engine for electric forklifts, appearance chargers and Class I cell paint platforms (PEPPs). According to the company, the engine extends battery life and extends service cycles by providing a higher force density than existing engines used in those applications, providing up to 95% efficiency.
Currently available for OEM box testing, the engine provides continuous strength from 20 kW to 60 kW and a maximum force of 30 kW to 70 kW. It is scheduled for production by the end of 2020.
The new engine joins Dana’s wide diversity of technologies that enable brands to meet the express performance, power, torque and NVH of any driving application. Dana offers low and high voltage solutions, adding SRIPM, synchronous relutectance (SR), internal permanent magnet (IPM) and AC induction motors.
The motors can be combined with Dana’s inverter, controller, software, and drive products to deliver a comprehensive system solution for original-equipment manufacturers.
Spicer 141 axle
Designed for Class I, IV, and V industrial lift trucks, the Spicer 141 axle is a scalable, modular platform built for heavy loads while offering durability, reliability, and ease of maintenance.
Photo: Dana Inc.
Now available for pneumatic and cushioned forklifts, the Spicer 141 axle offers a wide range of gears to optimize traction performance. The new series of axles, with rain and drum brake configurations, includes a variety of mast and frame mounting options. Its new lifetime rain brake provides popular with an internal hydraulic spring parking brake (SAHR) for industry protection initiatives.
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The truck itself will be the maximum life link in the source chain. You can bring large quantities of anything to any destination as long as there is a path or a satisfactory path. But no matter how the truck evolves, don’t expect the tires to replace too much.
When the entire world was thrown into a lesson on modern survival, our reliance on the trucking industry became even more pronounced. Since then, there’s been some appreciation in the press and a few signs in some yards, but the unsung system of moving freight continues to remain anonymous. It will always be a constant struggle to manage multiple distribution channels so goods and services can reach the consumer. Practically all of it depends on trucking at some point, but most people still have no idea that society would collapse without trucks.
Business leaders have focused more on the fragility of home chains, so I implemented this in the trucking industry and proposed 3 critical areas: trucks, fuel, and drive forces. I put the driving forces at the end for an express explanation of why, because there is a genuine option that trucks can be driven in the same way or in a similar way to drones thousands of miles away. Imagine a built-in network of cars that don’t have a physical driving force in the seat and are handled with sensors and GPS. A user can use multiple cars on other monitors and even interfere to drive the truck remotely when alerted or needed.
Fuel is more productive described as an energy source. Electric trucks are interesting, but limited battery life and charging time are major obstacles that will have to succeed at a lower value than diesel. Without a national network of high-speed charging stations, a rechargeable battery would be most productive. They would be similar to wireless tool batteries, but much more resilient and probably much larger/heavy. Like my driverless van, it’s possible.
The truck itself will always be the most important link in the supply chain. It can get large quantities of anything to any destination as long as there is a passable road or path. On my driverless rechargeable truck in fantasyland, every component would be electric and simply swapped out when it didn’t work. No more fuel, fluids or compressed air. Technology like electric motors and regenerative braking systems have the potential to change the concept of the commercial motor vehicle.
Of course, the only thing that is unlikely to update in Fantasyland Trucking are the tires. Everything else may seem absolutely different in the immediate and not too remote future, however, I bet the tire will continue to play the same role it played for more than a century. There may even be progress in connecting it to the vehicle, however, the truck’s cameraless radial tire has been so reliable and adaptable for so long that I will update it in my life.
This point of dependency is worrying given what we have learned about dependence on foreign countries for strategically vital products or materials. Manufacturing is not a challenge. The national capacity of truck tires is sufficient for long-term disruption and the physical area for expansion will not be a challenge for maximum tire manufacturers. If, for some reason, the source of imported tires were interrupted for a prolonged era of time, there would be short-term pain and a safe maximum value increase, however, the trucks would continue to operate.
Natural rubber (NR) will be the weakest link in the vehicle shipping formula and more than 70% of the global source will go to the tyre industry. It is an agricultural product that is always the subject of drought, diseases and various environmental threats. It grows only in the subtropical regions of Southeast Asia and, although other select plants have shown promise, there will never be enough Russian dandelions and/or guayule to meet the demand of tire manufacturers. The option to create artificial fabrics to upgrade NR still exists, but as far as I know, some functionality features of the Hevea brasiliensis latex still want to be recreated in the lab.
During the rubber shortage of 1942-1945 due to World War II, the effort to ration tires and rubber led to a national “victory speed” of 35 mph on all roads, streets and highways. Given the continued fragility of NR production and the fact that around 95% of global production is found in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, India and China, tyre brands have a collective interest in maintaining a normal source of a raw key that never arrives. as a result, they are founding members of the Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR) to “lead to innovations in the socio-economic and environmental functionality of the herbal rubber price chain”.
Approximately 85% of global NR production is categorized as smallholders where local people cultivate scattered patches of Hevea brasiliensis. Many of these small co-ops are either unaware of or unable to afford sustainable farming practices. The GPSNR is trying to change that and help them develop environmentally sound practices. Given the long term strategic importance of tires in the trucking industry, supporting their efforts will help ensure the sustainability of NR to keep things like victory speeds in the history books where they belong.
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