Daimler
Trucks new automatic transmission for the Cascadia has gone into production at
the German company's Gaggenau plant, ready for use in Freightliner's Cascadia
Evolution by mid-year.
Daimler Trucks NA anticipates as much as 30% of Cascadia production will use the 12-speed automated transmission that, coupled to the latest generation of DD15 Detroit engine, offers fuel savings of 5% or more in the Cascadia Evolution. The single countershaft transmission also provides a 60kg (132 lb) weight savings over current competitive Eaton transmissions.
Quality processes
The
Gaggenau factory machines and cuts gears and shafts, producing up to 150,000
transmissions annually for light, medium and heavy-duty Mercedes-Benz, Fuso and
Freightliner products around the world. The DT 12, a new model for North
America, shares the same internals with the automated transmission that was
introduced with the cabover Mercedes New Actros, which was introduced two years
ago. Thus it’s been in well-proven applications for two years.
Changes
for the North American version consist of converting from Europe's 24V truck
electrical system to North America's 12V. Software changes allow for
communication with the American SAE/TMC chassis electrical architecture instead
of the European CanBus.
New
Actros, as the highly sophisticate new European cabover is called, was
introduced with the OM471 and 472 engines, which are all but identical to the
DD13 and 15 engines. This marks the first outside-America application of
Daimler's worldwide Heavy Duty Engine Platform, which will also power Fuso
trucks from Japan.
North
America was the first to see these engines introduced in 2006, so where
Freightliner will benefit from the Mercedes-proven automated transmission,
Mercedes-Benz benefits from new engines already proven in N.A. markets. Both
brands also benefit from the integration of engine and transmission, says Daimler,
with the deeper communication made possible by proprietary components,
electronic controls and software for greater optimization and a richer feature
set than is possible with either a supplier engine or transmission.
Worth
the trip
At
the factory, we saw how gears are manufactured with tolerances as tight as a
half micron for reliability and durability, as well as less noise in operation.
The transmissions are warrantied for 750,000 miles, showing Daimler's
confidence in its design and production processes. Much of the machining is
done on fully automated lines with the plant running at close to 2,000 units per
day. Transmissions are assembled at the neighboring Rastatt plant.
Gaggenau
is, incidentally, the oldest vehicle and component production facility in the
world. Commissioned in 1894, it became the site where Carl Benz produced his
early cars in 1907.
Later,
we went to the Worth truck plant about an hour away to see Mercedes-Benz trucks
being built with Gaggenau transmissions and the inline 6-cylinder HDEP engines,
sourced from the engine plant in Mannheim, Germany. Another historical note:
Mannheim was also a Benz factory, while Gottlieb Daimler's production was in
Stuttgart. In 1926 the two producers combined into Daimler-Benz.
The
new Actros is assembled at Worth beside heritage models of the Actros that
still use the V6 and V8 diesels and other A-line trucks that include the newly
introduced Arocs heavy vocational chassis, the regional Antos and Axor, and the
lighter Atego. Worth also produces specialized vehicles for unique markets.
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