Flexible Hydraulic Systems Support a Broad Product Line

Flexibility in your machine’s hydraulic system can significantly improve scalability of your product line. Designing entirely different hydraulic or electronic solutions for separate machines can considerably increase manufacturing time. In order to maximize machine production and simplify the assembly process, GS Global Resources works with OEMs to create flexible systems that require only a few modifications from machine to machine.

In the case of one crane manufacturer, we created one base manifold assembly that supports cranes as heavy as 8,000 lbs. However, we can use that same manifold for larger cranes simply by adding another valve, changing the flow from 8 gallons per minute to 15 gallons per minute.

These types of simple modifications can also be created and utilized for electrical solutions, as well. For that same crane manufacturer, we created an address tag system to easily activate the correct aspects of the machine software after it is plugged into the crane’s wire harness. This allows the OEM to simply modify the control system for all of their 26 different crane models.

Solutions like these allow an OEM to utilize the same base hydraulic and control elements across a wider product range, with only minimal tweaks and modifications needed to accommodate for very different machines.