Revealing Rexroth’s RM Valve Assembly
Mobile OEMs are constantly navigating through a maze of challenges, often including new demands from users for better performance. While the components that OEMs use to build and control their machines are well understood, the technology is always changing. In particular, hydraulics has been a steadfast element in mobile machinery, yet the technology that drives and controls fluid must evolve to meet these user demands. In this episode of Evolution in Controls, special guest Zack Reddick, Regional Sales Manager, joins host Tim Wilson to discuss mobile hydraulic valves and how they’ve evolved to meet the demand for simple yet high-performing technology.
Hydraulics is an ever-present technology found in both industrial and mobile applications. Despite its prevalence in both industries, hydraulic components are designed and operated in varying ways. A valve’s main duty is to simply divert fluid flow, and, in industrial applications, that’s often all it does. However, weight and space claims are more significant to mobile OEMs, which means a valve whose only job is to divert flow can have wasted potential.
The solution then, is mobile hydraulic valves that serve multiple functions and purposes to optimize space and weight claims while improving performance and efficiency. A valve that functions as such sounds like complicated technology, but thanks to Rexroth’s new RM valve platform, mobile OEMs can customize varying slices of simple valves that cover a wide range of duties. The RM series is a pre-compensated sectional valve that covers 75 to 85% of the functions that mobile machinery needs to operate every day. By combining many functions, each valve assembly can be customized to include specific functions and flow, depending on the needs of the OEM.
Multiple functions and flow options in a single valve assembly don’t mean a compromise on efficiency and performance. In fact, compared to other competitive designs, the RM valve platform features a 20% extended spool stroke length for greater control resolution, lower leakage, and reduced overall pressure drop in the valve, almost 50% less compared to some designs. This valve series takes mobile hydraulics to a new level of simple yet efficient technology, providing high levels of precision, increased control resolution, good loading characteristics, and more pressure to do work in the application.
With this innovation making its way into the mobile hydraulics market, it’s only natural that machine builders are beginning to choose the RM valve series as a cost-effective, flexible solution.
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