The new technologies demonstrate how Dana offers modular systems that support both bolt-on and fully integrated approaches to vehicle design. Dana’s flexibility helps manufacturers reduce system complexity, shorten the time to develop and introduce new products, and facilitate the introduction of innovations into the vehicle life cycle.

Dana has a deep portfolio of Spicer axles, transmissions, and driveshafts for traditional applications driven by internal-combustion engines, as well as a full range of electric motors, inverters, and controllers for low- and high-voltage applications ranging from 24 to 800 volts.

Additionally, Dana supplies motion systems for work functions as well as advanced sensors and controls developed to optimize productivity, maximize life, and reduce maintenance.

“Performance, efficiency, and modularity are the top needs for manufacturers of material-handling equipment,”

said Aziz Aghili, president of Dana Off-Highway Drive and Motion Systems.

“Dana’s new generation of innovations provide the lowest total cost of ownership by helping equipment buyers navigate the challenges of Industry 4.0, human-to-machine communication, autonomous vehicle operation, Big Data, and the end-to-end digitization of supply chain processes.”

New Low-Voltage, High-Efficiency Motor

Dana has launched a new 48- to 120/144-volt synchronous reluctance internal permanent magnet (SRIPM) motor targeted for Class I electric lift trucks, sideloaders, and mobile elevated work platforms (MEWPs). Delivering up to 95 percent efficiency, the motor prolongs battery life and extends duty cycles by delivering higher power density than the AC motors typically used in these applications.

Currently available for field testing by equipment manufacturers, the motor offers continuous power from 20 kW to 60 kW, and peak power from 30 kW to 70 kW. It is scheduled for production in late 2020.

The new motor joins the wide breadth of technologies from Dana that allow manufacturers to address the specific performance, power, torque, and NVH requirements of any given material-handling application. Dana offers low- and high-voltage solutions including SRIPM, synchronous reluctance (SR), internal permanent magnet (IPM), and AC induction motors.

The motors can be combined with Dana’s inverter, controller, software, and drive products to deliver a comprehensive system solution for original-equipment manufacturers.

Spicer 141 Axle

Designed for Class I, IV, and V industrial lift trucks, the Spicer 141 axle is a scalable, modular platform built for heavy loads while offering durability, reliability, and ease of maintenance.

Available now for cushion- and pneumatic-tire forklift trucks, the Spicer 141 axle offers a wide range of ratios to optimize tractive performance. Available with wet brake and drum brake configurations, the new series of axles includes a variety of mast and frame mounting options. Its new lifetime wet brake offering comes standard with an internal spring-applied hydraulic-release (SAHR) parking brake to support industry safety initiatives.

Source: Dana Incorporated

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Extending battery life is a key goal for many rental companies as battery issues are one of the main drivers of service calls, and one of the largest contributors to a rental company’s cost of ownership. Skyjack’s Elevate BMS means that rental companies can benefit without resorting to expensive and complex alternatives, such as anti-sulfation over-charging. It also allows for a fleet-wide solution for industry-standard lead-acid battery packs without the added expense of new battery technology.

Elevate BMS provides the tools in clear and simple terms to measure battery pack treatment while in the field. These actionable insights can be applied to existing rental business processes, having an immediate impact reducing how often rental companies have to replace batteries. This management by measurement is a critical missing piece to increasing rental companies’ overall return on investment on electric-powered machines.

“Since the inception of the ELEVATE telematics package, Skyjack have focused on actionable insights and so ELEVATE BMS is integrated into all ELEVATE software including Skyjack’s new ELEVATE Live,”

explains Malcolm Early, vice president of marketing at Skyjack.

“We identified that batteries are currently sitting at an average battery life that is only half their potential. Getting these insights into the hands of all industry roles is critical to meeting that potential.”

Following the launch of its ELEVATE telematics package Skyjack has found that most of Skyjack’s customers are choosing to share their data with the OEM, which enables Skyjack to dig into how equipment is being used on-site. Through the support and collaborative partnership with its customers, Skyjack was able to launch a data science study analyzing how equipment is used, and how behavior surrounding that can be improved. This study helped identify the issues and inform the development of the ELEVATE BMS product.

“We’ve taken what can be a complex problem, broken it down into its fundamental components, and we’ve learned some valuable things from this exercise. This study involves two years of aggregated global telematics data, with over 84 million data points,”

explains David Swan, technology product manager at Skyjack.

“What we have developed is an algorithm that can successfully identify the different features of charging data with high accuracy, which requires effectively understanding and interpreting all of the edge cases of those features.”

Through this study of battery pack charging behavior the following insights were revealed:

• 75% of battery charges are less than 2.75 hours
• Batteries only receive ONE full charge a month
• The type of the battery is not the only thing limiting its lifespan; it is the lack of insight to how that battery is treated that leads to premature battery failure and an inflated cost of ownership
• Even the most technologically advanced battery underperforms if it is treated poorly

“Looking at the results from the study it’s clear that there is a lot of opportunity for better practices and greater profitability with rental companies current stock of lead-acid batteries,”

Swan continues.

“A lot of that opportunity is at the operator level and that’s why we incorporated ELEVATE BMS into our new ELEVATE Live product where the emphasis is on changing charging behavior through active on screen prompts directed toward the operator.”

Source: Skyjack

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