OEM Industry Update

On this week’s episode of OEM Industry Update, editor Sara Jensen speaks with Keith McComsey, Product Group Director – Air Disc Brake and Systems, and Mark Holley, Director of Marketing and Customer Solutions – Wheel End at Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems, about the growing use of air disc brakes in commercial vehicles. The sharp growth pattern for air disc brakes has been driven by the various...

On this week’s episode of OEM Industry Update, editor Sara Jensen speaks with Jeremy Harsin, Cummins Global Construction Manager, about the various alternative power sources the company is currently researching and developing, as well as other sustainability related technologies for the off-highway equipment industries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week’s episode of OEM Industry Update, editor Sara Jensen speaks with Anand Rau, Chief Technology Officer at CalAmp, about cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology. C-V2X enables communication between machines, people and infrastructure, which will help to improve safety on job sites especially as autonomous equipment becomes more prevalent in off-highway applications like constru...

On this week’s episode of OEM Industry Update, editor Sara Jensen speaks with Rosenbauer and Volvo Penta about the design of a specialized fire truck for mining operations. Duane Kann and Paul Powell from Rosenbauer discuss how the business has grown in recent years and the development of the fire truck, as well as why the company chose to use Volvo Penta engines for its vehicles. Learn more about...

On this week’s episode of OEM Industry Update, editor Sara Jensen speaks with Greg Morris, Americas Product Application Specialist- Greases, Americas PAS Team Lead, at Shell about a new grease specification for heavy-duty equipment as well as the role greases can play in construction equipment performance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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...

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 pow...

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. Learn mor...

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 rout...

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 r...

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone....

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. Learn more about your ad...

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 s...

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...

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...

On this week’s episode of OEM Industry Update, Andrew Sunderman, Senior Manager of Global Farming Systems at AGCO, provides a look at the second generation of the Fendt Xaver robot. The concept agricultural robot incorporates many technologies which are currently utilized on Fendt equipment, such as guidance systems and the company’s suite of precision technologies for seeding and planting.  Learn...

On this week’s OEM Industry Update, editor Sara Jensen speaks with Justin Savage who is the global co-leader of Sidley Austin’s environmental group and leads Sidley’s Automotive and Mobility Sector about emissions compliance for off-road equipment. While there are no new regulations currently being proposed, OEMs and engine manufacturers need to ensure proper development and testing of their produ...

On this week’s episode of OEM Industry Update, our editor Sara Jensen speaks with Eric Alström, President of Danfoss Power Solutions, about the recent acquisition of Eaton’s hydraulics business. He says there were several factors which motivated the merger, from expanded market capabilities to similar company cultures. Bringing together the two companies’ wealth of hydraulics knowledge will help t...

In this week’s episode of OEM Industry Update, our editor Sara Jensen speaks with Dijam Panigrahi, co-founder of Grid Raster Inc. A recent analysis from GlobalData found augmented reality (AR) is now the most disruptive emerging technology. According to Panigrahi, the global pandemic has helped accelerate use of and interest in AR because many companies realized the need for a tool which could ena...

In this week’s episode of OEM Industry Update, editor Sara Jensen speaks with Jared Aho, Director of Marketing, Transportation at NI, about the company’s new collaboration with Seagate which aims to improve testing and development of autonomous vehicles. NI’s high performance in-vehicle data logging systems will be brought together with Seagate’s data transfer and edge storage services to help ori...

On this week’s episode of OEM Industry Update we speak with John Pannone, EAO’s VP of HMI Systems, on the potential impacts of autonomous vehicles and systems on operator interface designs. Human machine interface (HMI) products which are adaptable to support both autonomous and manual operation benefit OEM designs as well as end-use customers.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...

On this week’s episode of OEM Industry Update I’ll be speaking with Janosch Fauster, Director Application Development Center at TTControl, about emerging technologies in the off-highway equipment industries. Perception technologies, such as computer vision and artificial intelligence, are key areas of focus for TTControl as it sees them enabling a high level of machine automation. Continued advanc...

On this week’s OEM Industry Update, we speak with Josh Israel, Market Development Manager, Horiba Automotive Test Systems, about the potential for a new zero-emissions regulation in California for small non-road engines. The new regulation would create or accelerate the market for electric solutions in lower horsepower equipment, such as that used in lawn and landscape equipment. Learn more about...

On this week’s episode of OEM Industry Update we speak with Claire McConnell, Vice President of Proterra Powered, about the company’s battery technology as well as it’s partnership with Komatsu to develop a battery-electric excavator. This is Proterra’s first project in the off-highway market, which it believes is an important one for electromobility.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...

On this week’s episode of OEM Industry Update, we speak with Matt Bentley, Product Manager, Commercial Engine Oils and Denis Gryazev, OEM Account Manager, Off Highway at The Lubrizol Corporation about the evolution of heavy-duty engine oils to meet emissions regulations and OEM requirements.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices