Simplify Electrical Architecture Before Wiring Complexity Slows Development
Many compact equipment platforms continue to add functionality through additional wiring, custom integrations, and machine-specific implementations.
What OEMs Need to Solve
- Compact machine packaging space is increasingly constrained by hydraulics, emissions systems, cooling systems, cab electronics, operator interfaces, and protected routing paths for harnesses and connectors.
- Harness growth increases routing effort, connector management, build variability, inspection time, and end-of-line testing burden.
- Platform-specific wiring architectures limit design reuse and make each machine variant harder to update, validate, manufacture, and service over time.
- Electrical complexity added during development often becomes service complexity later, especially when technicians must trace long harness runs, isolated circuits, or variant-specific wiring in the field.
Why It Matters
You accelerate development by reducing architectural complexity—not by adding more engineering resources.
HED’s Approach
HED helps compact equipment OEMs simplify electrical architecture by moving control intelligence onto a CAN-based platform. Instead of adding more point-to-point wiring as features increase, OEMs can use distributed control modules, configurable I/O, and standardized communication to reduce harness complexity and improve design reuse.
- Reduce harness length, connector count, and routing complexity.
- Standardize controls architecture across compact loaders, excavators, backhoes, and telehandlers.
- Improve packaging flexibility with distributed I/O placed closer to machine functions.
- Simplify manufacturing, testing, and service through cleaner electrical architecture.
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