ArvinMeritor Previews ‘Intelligent’ Axle System

Truck component maker ArvinMeritor Inc., Troy, Mich., unveiled a wired “intelligent” axle system that optimizes lubrication during operation. It may improve fuel economy in heavy trucks equipped with the technology, the company said.

The Meritor LogixDrive system uses electronic sensors to monitor “temperature, speed, braking and torque conditions to apply the optimized amount of lubrification to the axle,” ArvinMeritor said in a Sept. 20 statement, issued from the International Commercial Vehicles Motor Show in Hanover, Germany.

The LogixDrive system will be available as an option on the Meritor 17X and other drive axle systems beginning in 2012, ArvinMeritor said in the statement.