The truckmaker’s design and development center employs 150 people, expanding capacity by 30 percent. It has sixteen engine test beds, one for vehicles and development laboratories.
The new facility allows the company’s engineers to focus more on lab testing, an activity that offers precise results. The staff can now make the transition form road testing to the 16 engine test beds. These offer 620 kW and a maximum torque of 4,000 Nm and are capable of simulating extreme conditions, such as humidity, heat and cold shocks.
The sixteen engine test beds measure the emissions figures offering statistics that are vital in today’s eco-focused industry. In addition to that, they also allow MAN to improve the power and torque characteristics of the powerplants.
Being a modern facility, the Nuremberg test center includes the latest developments in energy efficiency, such as a complex three-fold energy recovery system. This features units that use the heat resulted from the engine’s cooling systems and an intelligent power grid, which uses energy generated during engine tests.
"Thanks to our new engine development centre we will be able to master development challenges even better," said MAN director research & development Bernd Maierhofer. "In the first instance these will involve the stringent emission limits such as those of the Euro 6 standard, but also the growing range of requirements placed on engines."
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