Your Partner in Performance Serviceability Streamline your hydraulics by eliminating hydraulic pilot lines and simplifying wiring with a bus architecture. Add advanced diagnostics that warns of impending problems and even tells you where to look. And, for overhauls and repairs of high-value pumps, gears, and other components, we offer complete in-house services to bring components back to warranty-level condition. Articles and Other Resource Materials: Attachments boost business growth – Contractors use wide range of attachments to become more versatile and keep business flowing. "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. "Maximize fleet fuel economy" — In the January issue of Equipment Today, truck manufacturers advise fleet operators to focus on three areas to cut fuel consumption: vehicle specs, driver education and maintenance. "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. "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. "Taking control" — Electrohydraulic systems are getting easier to operate and develop as component vendors strive to help both operators and designers get the most out of their equipment. This recent survey article in SAE Off-Highway covers a number of these systems, including the recently announced BODAS 13 display with 32-bit graphics capabilities from Bosch Rexroth. For the whole story, read the October 2007 edition of SAE Off-Highway. "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. "Global “green” truck, bus & fuel conference announced" — The Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicle Conference 2008 in San Diego, sponsored in part by Bosch Rexroth, offers the opportunity to explore cutting-edge solutions for increasing vehicle efficiency and reducing emissions. "Testing hybrid regenerative brakes… in the real world" — Several major fluid power providers – including Bosch Rexroth – are teaming with businesses and major metropolitan areas to road-test hybrid regenerative brake (HRB) systems. The most recent field tests are being conducted with HRB units mounted on refuse trucks in New York City and Baltimore. "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. "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.