Design Compact Equipment Platforms That Can Evolve Without Rework
Compact equipment platforms are expected to support increasing levels of connectivity, diagnostics, machine intelligence, software configurability, and attachment integration.
What OEMs Need to Solve
- New machine features increasingly depend on software-configurable controls, shared communication networks, and reusable machine-state logic—not just added hardware.
- Connected-machine expectations continue to increase across construction fleets, putting more pressure on OEMs to design architectures that can support diagnostics, telematics, data visibility, and future service tools.
- OEMs need scalable architectures that can support future attachments, operating modes, and diagnostic requirements without redesigning the core electrical system.
- Common platform architectures make it easier to carry proven controls strategies across loaders, excavators, backhoes, and telehandlers while adapting software and I/O to each machine family.
Why It Matters
Future-ready platforms are designed to evolve—not repeatedly be redesigned.
HED’s Approach
HED helps OEMs build future-ready compact equipment platforms around reusable controls architecture instead of one-off machine designs. A common CAN-based backbone gives engineering teams a foundation for adding diagnostics, telematics, software-defined features, new attachments, and future machine functionality without repeatedly redesigning the core electrical system.
- Use common controllers, displays, keypads, and I/O across multiple machine families.
- Enable software-driven feature growth without major architecture changes.
- Prepare platforms for telematics, diagnostics, and connected-machine initiatives.
- Support long-term product evolution through scalable, reusable controls architecture.
Create a Future-Ready Controls Platform with HED
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