WA company bolsters team as brake innovation approaches commercialisation
April 3, 2012
Advanced Braking Technology (ABT) has started the final testing phase for its new braking system for garbage trucks.
Successful completion will
set the scene for commercial sales of the product.
The system utilises the firm’s Sealed Integrated Braking System (SIBS), “which is fitted to an estimated 25 percent of light vehicles used in mining in Australia”, ABT says.
It aims to eliminate brake dust and squeal, along with reducing major servicing frequency.
Testing has started with an unnamed Western Australian council’s waste collection fleet last week, following 750 hours of heavy load testing of two trucks fitted with SIBS brake sets, ABT says.
“Some of the long lead time items required for production have been delivered to the company’s manufacturing facility in Thailand, where sample parts are currently being made,” the listed Western Australian firm adds.
Detailed vendor qualification meetings are also taking place in Australia and overseas.
“Additional field testing will continue beyond this point including confirmation testing of production brake sets.”
The company has also added automotive engineer Malcolm Lambert as its new Program Manager.
Dr Lambert had been with automotive components firm Delphi in the UK.
