AGRITECHNICA ERGONOMICS
FRITZMEIER CABS
New age cabins November 10-16, 2019
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PROVIDING BOTH COMFORT TO THE DRIVER AND A HIGH TECH SPECIFICATION
IS THE PERFECT APPROACH TO CREATING A MODERN, EFFICIENT CABIN
Fritzmeier Cabs
Hall 17, Stand D54
iVTInternational.com September 2019
What do agricultural machinery manufacturers
need? Modern, driver-friendly safety cabins at
reasonable development costs are certainly on the list.
With the modular Global Cab, Fritzmeier Cabs has
developed a product that meets these requirements.
In addition, Fritzmeier is working on augmented reality,
noise reduction and the integration of a module in cabs
that bring together Internet, radio and communication
in the work space.
Fritz Schadeck, vice president sales and marketing
at Fritzmeier Cabs, says, “We’re addressing some issues
that the industry is looking at right now. As always, we’re
working together with the big industry associations
as well as with young companies that have promising
technologies.”
Essential toolkit
Fritzmeier has many years of experience in lightweight
aluminum construction and this experience is shown
in the new Global Cab.
As a customer-neutral, variable basic cab, it offers
maximum design flexibility with low investment and
can easily be adapted to many different machines.
Global Cab is a valuable option, especially for smaller
serial where manufacturers are cost-driven to a large
degree. The product requires only a small tooling
investment while providing the accustomed high
Fritzmeier Cabs quality.
The safety cab covers ROPS requirements up to
20 tons. For weights up to 50 tons, an interior steel
ROPS can be added.
“This is possible because the ROPS cab is made
of a welded special aluminum section with a modular
structure,” explains Uwe Rastel, vice president of
engineering at Fritzmeier Cabs. “The reduction in
mass also means that vision obstruction is significantly
lower than with steel, giving better fields of view.”
In cooperation with Austrian augmented reality
(AR) specialist Holo-Light, Fritzmeier Cabs is showing
the specific customer benefits that are possible with
augmented reality at this year’s Agritechnica event.
In the future, AR can be used to simplify development
processes far upstream of series production by
visualizing different variants, color combinations or
technical options both realistically and economically.
After the start of series production, issues like spare
parts management and service become central.
ABOVE: The Global Cab
is easily adaptable for
a variety of vehicles
Another approach for the future is using AR
to reduce time-consuming ordering processes
and dreary manuals.
Extra offerings
Going beyond cabs, Fritzmeier also works in a cluster
with other companies in addition to the Technical
University of Munich. It collaborates on the use of
building information modelling (BIM) data combined
with sensor data from machines, pipeline plans and
danger zones to show this information as a 3D model
on mixed reality glasses. As a result, all of the important
information about the working environment is visible
literally at a glance. It makes work more efficient and also
offers a new training instrument for machine operators.
In the course of further development, new
requirements are continually coming into focus, like
operator assistance in hazardous workplace situations.
To address them, Fritzmeier is collaborating with TU
Munich and parts companies Grammer and Mekra
on the Intelligent Security View (ISV) research project.
It involves mounting a camera on the machine to
expand the operator’s field of view, eliminating visual
obstacles and blind spots. The operator doesn’t need
to look away from the work, which boosts work safety.
New collaborations
Formerly, active noise cancelling (ANC) solutions were
offered only as headphones. Fritzmeier collaboration
partner Recalm also reduces noise by means of
counter-noise, but integrates the system into the
operator’s headrest. This protects the machine operators
from noise without blocking off the outside world.
“We like to work with young companies, because
that’s where the ideas for the future are,” says Schadeck.
“For this reason, we are working in a further cooperation
with the start-up Antretter & Huber from Rosenheim.
At Agritechnica 2019, we will show a module that makes
radio, Internet and M2M communication mobile and
easy to use in agricultural machines.
“We believe that in rural areas with poor network
coverage, the COM-Box is a good way to use all the
benefits of modern communications technologies,”
he adds. iVT
By Kathrin Schnitzlbaumer, marketing and product
manager at Fritzmeier Cabs
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