Technology Integration for Truck

and Construction Equipment:

On-Board Scales

Equipment Maintenance Innovators (EMIGlobal)
is a developer and business integrator of
Mobile-SCADA® — a suite of generic technology
tools for truck and construction equipment. We
focus on business areas where ROI can be achieved
quickly through the implementation of “off-the-shelf”
hardware and software technologies. Basically, we take
the SCADA process from the factory and apply it to
mobile equipment.

Hybrid Hydraulic Systems Update

Hydraulic Hybrid Systems refocuses on core technology

By Tom Hacker

Loveland Reporter-Herald

Denver International Airport’s fleet of 200-plus light-duty trucks, used for everything from plowing snow to maintaining runway lights, burned through about $1.3 million worth of gasoline and diesel fuel last year.

Idle-reduction technology makes sense, saves dollars.

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Some ideas just make sense. And some ideas add up to dollars and cents.Such is the case for idle-reduction technologies in use by more and more companies operating heavy equipment across Prudhoe Bay, according to Terry Howard, director of equipment operations for Arctic Slope Regional Corp. He said collectively idle-reduction technology has the potential to save millions in fuel and maintenance costs for heavy equipment operating in Prudhoe Bay. "When you put the pencil to it and do round numbers, they go up so fast," Howard said. Here's a rough look at some of those numbers.

Machine Idle Time: Changing a business practice through technology

by Richard LeFrancois

In November of 2005 I found myself in Fairbanks, AK helping to install an aftermarket idle reduction system on a Volvo L150 wheel loader. A second Volvo wheel loader, an L120, was outfitted with the technology shortly thereafter. After installation the first loader was sent to work in Deadhorse, Alaska for the winter and the other worked the winter at Ft. Greeley, Alaska.

The pilot project that took place and the results from testing the technology on these two wheel loaders that winter has helped change the idle management practice for equipment operators in the mining and oil industries in Alaska, Colorado and Wyoming and in the oil fields of Alberta, Canada and Russia.

The technology, called Temp-A-Start, is patented and until that pilot project it had never been installed on a piece of construction equipment.

Temp-A-Start maintains wheel-loader block temperature and starting and charging systems, paying for itself in one Alaskan winter

February 1, 2008

By Larry Stewart, Executive Editor - Construction Equipment
This ASRC Volvo loader working on Alaska's North Slope is the first off-road machine equipped with Temp-A-Start two years ago. The system cut idling by nearly 80 percent and improved reliability in subzero temperatures.

Terry Howard was motivated to adapt idling-reduction technology, becoming more common in trucks, to ASRC's off-road equipment because the best way to get machines rolling after 14 hours off shift in the Alaskan winter was to leave the engines running.