Developed for dusty everyday work
Siemens VDO presents new Viewline instrument series for even more flexibility in industrial uses
Regensburg, April 23, 2007
Siemens VDO will offer manufacturers of agricultural, forestry, and construction machinery, motorcycles, engines, industrial machinery, and exclusive limited series even greater flexibility in instrumentation in the future. This is made possible by the completely redeveloped instruments in the Viewline series, which will gradually replace all of the company’s previous analog series in the future. The system supplier present the new instruments specially designed to meet the requirements of use in construction machinery at the bauma 2007, in Munich.
The new instruments with diameters of 85 or 110 millimeters are the highlight of the Siemens VDO Viewline series. Depending on customers’ requirements, these instruments can now be equipped with up to five control lights that can be controlled individually. Each unit comes standard with a large LC digital display for various data. This means that engine revolutions and speed, for instance, can be displayed together on a single instrument. The Viewline series also includes a wide range of instruments with a diameter of 52 millimeters and display angles of 90 or 240 degrees to display temperatures, pressures, fill levels, or revolutions; each of these instruments is also equipped with a light diode to display warning and control messages. A new polarized central plug connector makes it very simple to connect all the Viewline instruments.
In the future, the Viewline platform will also enable multi-function displays on the 110-millimeter instruments: According to the customer’s specific requirements, they can then be fitted individually with up to three dial scales for analog readings, a large LCD display for digital data, and five warning or indicator lights. In this way, all of the central driving functions of a piece of equipment such as a tractor, an excavator, or a scooter can be brought together in a single device, even including blinkers, dimmers, and high beam headlights.
Siemens VDO developed the new instrument platform equally for use on land and on the water. For that reason, vehicle and industrial engine manufacturers can now also benefit from the instruments’ rugged construction, tough technology, and excellent readability. All the instruments are now fully protected against corrosion and water splashed or sprayed from the front and can thus be used in open driving compartments even in rough weather and in rain or snow. Even dirt and dust don’t stand a chance. The glass covers are scratchproof and the double-paned variants are resistant to fogging. Because all of the numbers are additionally backlit, the dials remain optimally readable at all times. And the interior of each instrument is resistant to vibrations, shocks, and temperature fluctuations.
To ensure optimum integration, Viewline offers a design flexibility that has never before been achieved in this field. Cockpits can now be designed much more individually, because now, for the first time, all of the displays can now be installed in instrument panels flush or with bezels, at the customer’s choice, and because Siemens VDO supplies the dial faces in two colors and the facing bezels in three colors and shapes. Whether the machinery is an excavator, combine harvester, fire engine, scooter, forklift, or sports car – with nearly a thousand combinations, the new line offers the right instrument for everyone.
Further information for readers and end customers is available at: http://www.siemensvdo.com/contactus
The Group Siemens VDO Automotive, based in Regensburg, Germany and owned by Siemens AG, is one of the leading automotive suppliers of electronics and mechatronics worldwide and enables, with its products, individual mobility and efficient goods transportation via roads. A development partner to the automotive industry, the Group produces automotive electronics and mechatronics focusing on lower emissions, greater safety and driving convenience, and better provision of information to the driver as well as better networking between the driver and the outside world. In the 2006 fiscal year, which ended on September 30, 2006, Siemens VDO posted a sales volume of over 10 billion euros and achieved a result of 669 million euros calculated on the basis of the U.S. GAAP.
Reference Number: SV 200704.008 en
