Intelligent Pneumatic Transmission Automation
Highly efficient automation solutions for commercial vehicle transmissions
Key Facts
What can Intelligent Pneumatic Transmission Automation provide?
This latest generation of ZF’s market leading transmission automation solutions seamlessly interacts with the clutch system to provide a given automated manual transmission of an ICE or hybrid commercial vehicle with state-of-the-art gear-shifting performance, while the intelligent AMT controller, integrating gearbox actuator and ECU, is applicable to even pneumatically actuate the given transmission of an electric commercial vehicle to shift gears quickly and precisely for optimized efficiency.
Details
Customer Benefits
- Increases driver effectiveness across all experience levels
- Optimizes fuel efficiency installed on ICE vehicles
- Reduced mechanical wear helps to maximize vehicle uptime
- Helps to lower maintenance costs
- Lowers required investment and time-to-market to become a player in AMT technology
- Transmission automation constitutes a step towards autonomous driving
Features & Capabilities
- Quickly and precisely shifts gears, either automatically at optimal speed or according to driver demand
- High level of system integration reduces component weight and installation space requirements
- Comes with high temperature resistance and robust design
- Offers smart interaction with other systems like Predictive Eco Cruise Control and Hill Start Aid
OptiDrive
Leading modular transmission automation solution featuring award-winning and patented technology which can turn nearly every manual transmission into an automated manual transmission
Customer Benefits:
Customer Benefits:
- Applies to different types of commercial vehicles
- Cost-effective solution from small volume application onwards
- Lowers development cost by more than 80% versus customized solution
- Offers extensive customization options with unique calibration tool myOptiDrive
- Experienced engineering support from concept to serial production
OptiDrive
The system automates and optimizes gear shifting in 5-18 speed manual transmissions for different types of commercial vehicles
Features & Capabilities:
Features & Capabilities:
- Complete system including hardware and software
- Designed for constant and synchro-mesh gearboxes
- System modularity easily adapts to existing gearboxes
- Full automation of shifting and clutching
- Helps to increase safety by interaction with systems like ABS or ESCsmart
