MINING TRUCKS the first Chinese OEM to achieve this quite recently. Hydraulic systems work in tandem with the brakes and it is crucial to get the right performance and cooling rates.
Pioneer also has its own mobile test equipment; which can be deployed to the field, factory, or test lab. Testing services has been a recent area of growth its business. Interestingly, Pioneer is managing a proving ground( an unused quarry) in the USA for one of the main mining truck OEMs, where it carries out key tests and certifications for new products such as brakes, structural / chassis, steering, engine and fuel economy studies.
Currently, matching with the mentioned development trend for smaller 100 ton class trucks, Pioneer has been focusing on three different projects involving 150 ton or less truck classes. This has included a lot of upfront conceptual work to ensure competitiveness, such as innovative new powertrain concepts and work on fuel economy such as reducing vehicle weight and where possible increasing payload. Pioneer describes this as conceptual, R & D based engineering; though it also conducts detailed engineering as concepts develop into real trucks.
So aside from the developing world truck OEMs, what do the established players need from Pioneer? To some extent it is about manpower as if it is a new truck, their own
engineering specialist team might be stretched. Althausen adds:“ They want to work with someone with a lot of experience who knows what they are doing and there aren’ t many companies in the mining truck industry like Pioneer. Particularly where they want to challenge pre-conceived paradigms and methods and look at something completely new, we help them shake things up, where they may not have had a major design upgrade for many years. We help them see things from a new perspective but having the engineering expertise to carry it through with them as a team.”
Pioneer has also worked with other companies
A Pioneer employee conducting a truck brake test
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