Your Partner in Performance Reliability Reliable equipment relies on reliable components and subsystems. Our products are built tough and known worldwide for ruggedly reliable performance year in and year out. And our advanced products can help you design in higher levels of reliability with simplified plumbing for fewer points of failure, greater intelligence for built-in safeguards, and diagnostics to pinpoint issues before they become problems. Articles and Other Resource Materials: Sealing systems take the heat – Technology change and environmental development generate need for new hydraulic cylinder seal designs. Going with the flow – only faster – New Bosch Rexroth flow-sharing system designed to make implements work faster, be more responsive to operator. Read the whole story at Diesel Progress Online. Subscription required. Take control of crash ratesWith foresight and proper planning of safety practices, contractors can reduce their companies’ fleet crash risk. "High Tech compost turning" — The Topturn X is a self-propelled machine for composting tree clippings – and its muscle is an award-winning hydraulically-driven turning drum powered by a compact hydraulic-mechanical drive from Bosch Rexroth. "Hydraulics at the Hannover Fair" — The 2008 Hannover Fair hosted over 5100 exhibitors and over 200,000 attendees to displays of mobile hydraulics, automation, controls, networks, and instrumentation. "Staying Cool — properly designed engine cooling systems" — The performance of an engine's cooling system directly affects how reliable and durable the machine will be in the field. "Battling the Waves with Active Heave Compensation" — Bosch Rexroth has spearheaded the development of an advanced, integrated hydraulics technology to help overcome offshore operators continue working in heavy, rolling seas, called Active Heave Compensators (AHCs). "What can electronics do for you?" — The introductions of advanced electronics, initially targeted at Tier II engines, has progressed to improve precision and control in units equipped with Tier III power plants. "M4 mobile valves offer versatility" — Modular load-sensing valves simplify design and can handle a wide range of applications, making them an increasingly popular alternative to traditional monoblock valves. "Why do it yourself?" — Engineers verify their designs by creating prototypes and testing them thoroughly. This recent OEM Off-Highway article explains why, increasingly, they’re controlling costs by turning to independent labs to do the testing for them. "Deere takes next step toward driverless tractor" — In this February Design News cover story, we learn that, while operatorless tractors aren’t here yet, a new breed of automated steering systems is bringing ag manufacturers closer to the driverless dream. "CONEXPO 2008" — It’s the biggest show of the year. You can’t afford to miss CONEXPO 2008 in Las Vegas, March 11-15. Join Bosch Rexroth Mobile Hydraulics at Booth S-13013 to learn how new and emerging technologies such as hybrid drives, controlled hydrostatic fans, and electrohydraulic flow matching (EFM) offers the potential for safer, more reliable, more intelligent machines. "Hydraulic systems trends: Considerations of circuit dynamics" — In the December edition of Diesel Progress, a step-by-step analysis of several hydraulic circuit profiles, with helpful formulas and diagrams, provide hydraulics engineers with useful guidance on how to handle dynamic conditions, to protect hydraulics components and assure proper load handling and motion. Subscription registration required for online edition. "Business deals tie together truck components" — Vertical integration is how heavy truck building is done in Europe and Asia, and it’s coming to the U.S. In this recent Construction Equipment article, we learn how vertical integration, where the OEM decides what goes into its trucks, is gaining ground with heavy truck builders. "Breathe easy" — Cab environment air quality is becoming an important area of business for filtration companies. In this OEM Off-Highway article, we learn that better air filtration helps keep operators healthier and controls, instruments and monitors cleaner and easier to use. "Installing a CAN-do attitude" — Already integrated into a number of different industries and applications, the Controller Area Network (CAN)-bus protocol is becoming an increasingly viable and easy-to-use architecture for machine builders to use. "Coal: The New Diesel?" — High oil prices are generating interest in multiple types of alternative fuels. One that is receiving growing attention, according to this article in OEM Off-Highway, is liquefied coal: A zero-sulfur, low-emission fuel source. "Slew drive valve module simplifies designs" — A new slew drive module, the Rexroth MSC16, systematically combines tried-and-true hydraulic design elements with directional valve concepts optimized for crane slew drives. "Attachments crack open profit potential" — For many demolition companies, the move to carriers equipped with specialized attachments offers a host of benefits. In this recent Equipment Today article, debris recycling, and the revenue opportunity it offers, is explored in detail. "Keeping bus engines cool" — The ever-more strict emissions regulations for heavy-duty diesel engines on commercial vehicles are raising concerns with engine and vehicle manufacturers about engine technologies and exhaust gas aftertreatment. Engines with exhaust gas recirculation or similar processes need complex cooling management systems. For the whole story, read the July/August 2007 edition of Diesel Progress International. "Giant-size mining projects depend on massive machines" — The increasing demand for basic commodities is driving a global mining boom. That’s leading to new demand for giant-sized mining tools, according to a recent Machine Design article that profiles several new excavators and other tools recently launched to meet the demand. "Electrohydraulic flow matching: The next generation of load-sensing controls" — A major challenge facing mobile equipment designers is dealing with a large number of actuators that require hydraulic flow. "Can your hydraulic fluid meet today's demands for durability?" — Will your hydraulic fluid continue to provide the protection your system needs as demand increases for higher speeds, increased pressures, reduced reservoir size, higher production output and longer fluid life? "Off-highway shift-on-the-fly" — The GFT 45 T2/T3 from Bosch Rexroth is both a two- and three-stage planetary drive. "State of the Industry: Looking ahead" — OEM Off-Highway magazine polled executives from a number of equipment OEMs and suppliers and asked them to offer their thoughts about the immediate economic outlook and the technology trends they anticipate. "Engineers explore mobile equipment's future" — More than 1,200 engineers representing the world’s leading manufacturers of mobile equipment recently gathered at Bosch Rexroth’s Mobile 2006 conference in Ulm, Germany. "To Georgia or Italy" — For Perkins Engine Co. Ltd., keeping and winning customers around the world has meant making the distances shorter while working within the cultures of the regions where they are doing business. "As Big as it gets" — The Syncrude consortium operates a surface mine that is reportedly the largest mine in the world. It uses Terex's RH400 excavator, the world's largest, as the prime production tool. "Crane combines power, size, safety" — Mammoet cranes are known for their huge size, strength, and ability to thrive in hostile conditions.