Road-friendly air suspension systems increase the ability of trucks, trailers and coaches to transport loads by levelling the suspension, enhancing stability, control and safety over Australia’s diverse and demanding network of more than 870,000 km of public roads. Use of these tough but comfortable systems – which also reduce noise and vibration – has grown … Read more
Actuators play an essential role in automation and Industry 4.0, providing the soft, swift and preferably silent force to grip, squeeze, lift, push forward, stamp, vibrate, convey and process material through the production chain from raw material input to finished product output.
Low maintenance Airstroke® actuators from Firestone provide a compact and easily installed way to facilitate robust and reliable engineering of clean green renewable energy installations needing to continuously orient solar and wind power arrays towards their source of energy.
As the Covid pandemic places pressure on the heavy trucking industry to drive itself longer and harder to keep supply chains open, the safety and reliability of heavy vehicle suspension systems are more important than ever.
Noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) challenges are increasing in industrial, commercial, and infrastructure applications, as large construction and production projects with heavy machinery operate in neighbourhoods where projects are packed ever closer together as a result of urban consolidation.