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Today's average smartphone wirelessly exchanges various kinds of data such as contacts, photos, videos, and location information between multiple parties using Bluetooth[R], Wi-Fi, and cellular technology. For example, the Apple[R] [...]

Transportation systems for highways and arterials have advanced from a collection of independently operating devices to highly interconnected, far-reaching, and integrated systems. In congested urban environments, highly integrated and dynamic [...]

In late December, DaimlerChrysler and Swedish investment fund EQT reached agreement on the sale of MTU Friedrichshafen. In its announcement of the sale--which included MTU Detroit Diesel, formerly the off-highway [...]

Imagine perusing the eye-catching advertisements in a popular trade magazine looking to buy a territory for a concept and have narrowed the search down to three exciting opportunities. The first [...]

For most of the 97-plus years it has been making engines, Germany's Motorenfabrik Hatz GmbH has earned a reputation as a manufacturer of some of the most technologically advanced air-cooled [...]

Introduction Although an onboard navigational device may aid drivers in a given task, its operation may also introduce significant hazards. For example, when investigating cellular telephone use, it was estimated [...]

Diesel engines' high efficiency and short lead times make them suitable for projects to be constructed under power purchase agreements. Choloma in Honduras in one such scheme that has employed [...]

Together with its Belgian partner for electrical power generation projects, E. Van Wingen NV, Perkins Engines has recently supplied an extension to the electrical power generation capacity, at Belgium's largest [...]

If an engine component specialist has a program which covers all but two major parts of the whole, how strong is the temptation to develop a complete engine? In the [...]

At a recent International Press Briefing held at the company's vehicle testing facility in Boxberg, Germany, Robert Bosch GmbH demonstrated its latest product and development projects in both gasoline and [...]

On the face of it, Deutz CEO Gordon Riske cook over running the Cologne-based engine builder with better prospects than many of his predecessors. The vital engine supply and equity [...]

Rammax Maschinenbau GmbH has carved a niche in the construction equipment industry in both Europe and the US with its trench roller compactors. The Metzingen, Germany-based company takes pride in being the first in the world to develop a trench roller compactor, and has since emerged as a leading player in the construction machinery industry. Rammax manufactures five different types of trench roller compactors powered by air-cooled twin-cylinder engines from Hatz, air-cooled single-cylinder diesels from Farymann and three- and four-cylinder liquid-cooled engines from Kubota., In the global construction industry, the name Ammann is exceedingly well known in the compaction equipment markets. But one of the Swiss company's 20 subsidiaries, in its compaction division, can [...]

Jonathan Walker reports from last month's American Academy of Optometry meeting and finds that the Americans are not ahead of the UK in everything Wavefronts, higher-order aberrations and their applications [...]

In the third part of our series aimed at encouraging practitioners who currently fit few or no contact lenses to develop their business, Jonathan Walker looks at some of the [...]

Former Lucas Diesel Systems strengthens truck, mobile equipment presence, gasoline-diesel light vehicle synergy; 'ambitious expansion targets' When Lucas Diesel Systems was put on the market by TRW in March 1999, [...]

VP 30 and VP 44 pumps offer increased injection pressure, employ single control unit The fact that so many engines with 10 yeas pedigree are achieving compliance with tightening on-and [...]

Liebherr's 10 x 6 wheel drive LTM 1100/2 energy and emissions optimized mobile crane, a product of Liebherr-Werk Ehingen, Ehingen, Germany, is a 66 ton tare weight crane that features [...]

The Off-Highway Systems Group of Dana Corp. has launched the Spicer Suspended Axles program with an initial introduction of two axles. The suspended axles enable the addition of springing and [...]

Business unit targets external business, increased group potential, seeks full-line engine and drivetrain offering; captive business idea scrapped Coming just before the announcement of the Daimler Benz-Chrysler merger, the launch [...]

It would be easy to dismiss the merger of arch rivals from the same country as just one company buying the market share of the other, but there is much [...]

Reflecting its recognition of the continuing importance of electronics and control technology, MTU Friedrichshafen, a lead segment of the DaimlerChrysler OFF-Highway organization that includes Detroit Diesel Corp., has opened a [...]

In Europe, if you want a fast, sporty and economical car, get a diesel. Clearly, the better-than-petrol performance of modern automotive diesels is bought at a cost, even if that [...]

Responding to customer demand for ever higher power outputs - and ever higher outputs from the same basic dimensional envelope - MTU Friedrichshafen and Detroit Diesel Corp. (DDC)are launching a [...]

Italian construction equipment manufacturer New Holland has acquired the German firm of Orenstein and Koppel. The takeover has resulted in New Holland becoming an exclusive group of globally dynamic, multimarket mobile equipment manufacturers with a yearly sales of $2 billion per sector. Before the acquisition, New Holland's construction equipment were focused on backhoe loaders, skid-steer loaders and telehandlers., Acquisition adds O&K products to New Holland, Fiat-Hitachi ranges; implications for powertrain products and engine alliance Many were expecting the next big move in mobile equipment to be a large [...]

On the basis that the faster a diesel engine starts and maintains stable operation, the lower exhaust emissions will be, a new product for passenger cars from cold-start specialist Beru [...]

On the basis that the faster a diesel engine starts and maintains stable operation, the lower exhaust emissions will be, a new product for passenger cars from cold-start specialist Beru [...]

Variable valve timing (VVT) has yet to make a real impact on industrial diesels. True, it finds limited use to achieve internal exhaust gas recirculation in the emissions reduction technology [...]

At this year's IAA Motor Show in Frankfurt, Germany, Delphi presented its latest generation common rail diesel fuel injection technology. The new system builds on the technology of Delphi's 'Multec' [...]

New Marine Transmission From Hurth Germany's Carl Hurth Co. with North American offices in Lafayette, Indiana, has recently extended its range of marine transmissions with the introduction of the HSW [...]