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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Wheel Loaders"”.
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The effect of overloading on reliability of wheel loader structural components
… of material handling equipment, specifically wheel loaders, and their ability to operate reliably when subjected to high overload conditions. The overall aim is to determine the effect of overloading the bucket on wheel loader reliability. The specific objectives of the research are to: 1) …
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Improve the lead time for the medium wheel loader using core configuration and delayed product differentiation
… to improve the lead time for Caterpillar Medium Wheel Loaders in the North America market. The Medium Wheel Loaders division is undergoing many commercial value chain challenges: long lead time to dealers, high demand variability and high degree of configuration complexity. The long lead time may …
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Development of a web-based off-highway plant information system
… as a percentage of plant availability time for wheel loaders, backhoe-loaders, hydraulic excavators and off-highway haulers. The models depend on the lagged BDPERC, percentage utilisation (UTILPERC), standby percentage (SBPERC) and fault occurrence percentage (FLTPERC). Model validation results …
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Virtual pooling approximation using longest path network optimization
… conducted for a single vehicle class (Medium Wheel Loaders) suggest that network swapping has the potential to reduce on-hand inventory by more than 12% and decrease customer back orders by more than 17%. The swapping mechanism yields an NPV uplift of approximately USD 3 to 4M to the dealer …
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Advanced Control Strategies for Mobile Hydraulic Applications
… those used in the field including construction (wheel loaders, excavators, and backhoes, etc.), load handling (cranes, reach-stackers, and aerial lift, etc.), agriculture (harvesters, etc.), forestry, and aerospace.</p> <p>For these applications the proposed control method is designed to achieve …