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April Four, 2017 – Enhanced fuel efficiency. Lighter weight. Fewer parts. Lower costs. These factors led Dayco to win a two thousand seventeen Automotive News Tempo (Premier Automotive Suppliers’ Contribution to Excellence) Award for its ACTIVAC™ vacuum generation system on the two thousand seventeen Ford F-150. The award was introduced April three at the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center in Detroit.
With a concentrate on enhancing fuel economy and reducing vehicle weight, Dayco’s innovative ACTIVAC braking technology substitutes costly, powerful, fuel-consuming mechanical and electrical vacuum pumps found on many of today’s engines. Automakers benefit from diminished weight and decreased system cost, and automakers and consumers love enlargened fuel economy.
“Today’s high efficiency and high spectacle engines generate less vacuum, requiring powerful and expensive mechanical or electrical vacuum pumps to supply vacuum for power brakes,” said Jim Miller, director, Valve & Actuator Technologies, Dayco. “Our engineers have created an elegant, less expensive vacuum generation system requiring no added pumps and consuming no added power, using basic principles of physics and optimized with modern technical contraptions.”
The Dayco ACTIVAC system includes an array of stand-alone components, such as aspirators, ejectors, flow control valves, check valves and noise attenuators, all built to amplify or create a vacuum, while reducing vehicle weight and/or parasitic engine loss.
When compared to a mechanical vacuum pump, the Dayco ACTIVAC system reduces weight inbetween five hundred grams and Two.8 kilograms depending on whether the pump is cam-driven or belt-driven. The system also improves fuel economy by an estimated .Three percent over the mechanical vacuum pump. When compared to an electrical vacuum pump, Dayco’s ACTIVAC reduces weight by approximately Two.Trio kilograms and results in a significant cost savings per vehicle depending on the type and size of vacuum pump presently being used.
“The Dayco ACTIVAC is a no-compromise system solution for vacuum generation,” said Paul DiLisio, senior vice president, Automotive and Industrial OE Sales, Dayco. “It gives automakers the spectacle they need and expect, while improving fuel economy at a very competitive system cost which provides a value solution that is enormously compelling. We thank the Automotive News Tempo Award judges for recognizing our innovation and congratulate the other finalists and winners.”
For twenty three years, the Automotive News Tempo Awards have honored superior innovation, technological advancement and business spectacle among automotive suppliers. This prestigious award – considered the “Oscars” of the automotive components industry – is recognized around the world as the industry benchmark for innovation. A panel of independent judges selected the Rhythm Award winners.
The awards are sponsored by EY, Automotive News and the Original Equipment Suppliers Association (OESA). SAE International provides further support.
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