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Truck design engineers today are facing ever-increasing demands from customers to deliver more sophisticated machines. It’s a great time to be a design engineer but it’s a daunting challenge to deliver against today’s power, sustainability, and cost requirements.
Unique machines need to perform under rigid specifications and meet high performance standards. Design engineers need vendors who’ll work with them on their unique needs to meet performance objectives for very specific engine parts. It’s why Horton is recognized worldwide, for one distinct quality that leads to multiple customer benefits: collaborative development.
Horton employs one of the cooling industry’s largest, most experienced teams of engineers, designers, and technicians. It’s why brand leaders in the on- and off-highway markets have come to Horton for over 65 years to solve their most challenging cooling needs. Horton listens and the result is a keen understanding of individual cooling needs and the development of unique, optimized solutions.
How does custom thermal control benefit truck design?
- Fuel Economy: Horton helps engineers identify the right cooling system for the conditions and environments in which the vehicles operate.
- Noise Reduction: A variety of fan drives and design options to best suit your needs when it comes to reducing noise while ensuring proper cooling.
- Uptime: Horton offers a wide array of products and systems that feature little to no maintenance, to maximize uptime.
How does collaboration identify which fan will perform best?
- Variable Speed Fan Drive: Horton drives operate in accordance with cooling requirements to maintain the engine at an optimal operating temperature. When less cooling is required, it operates at a low idle speed, allowing for faster warm-up times, higher internal temperatures, significant noise reduction, more available power, and lower fuel consumption. As more cooling is required, the drive accelerates faster, smoother, and with less stress on the drive, motor, and adjacent components.
- Two-Speed Fan Clutch: Our clutch can shift from a lower eddy current mode to a higher spring-loaded mode for optimal cooling. It’s ideal for heavy commercial vehicles but is also used in some on-highway areas. Typical applications include garbage trucks, concrete mixers with a rear engine and dump trucks. In general, two-speed fan clutches are well suited for vehicles that are not constantly in motion or are stationary, so that no air pressure flows back through the engine.
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Collaboration yields results.
Horton’s collaboration with our design engineer customers has been the catalyst for Horton’s engine cooling innovations and for total thermal control. We love the challenge of tailoring solutions for fans, drives, brackets, and hubs.
Today’s truck market demands the highest possible performance. Truck designers want collaborative design solutions. It’s why Horton joins forces with our customers to achieve and even surpass high performance requirements.
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