PHASE III B: JOHN DEERE DEALERS GET INVOLVED

This year 2011 will mark a turning point for buyers of agricultural machinery.
This year 2011 will mark a turning point for buyers of motorized agricultural machinery: they will now have to include in their selection criteria the solution chosen by the engine manufacturer to meet Stage III B emission reduction requirements.

Dealers will play a decisive advisory role here.

To take this new step in reducing emissions, engine manufacturers had to choose between two technologies: the EGR route with a particulate filter, or the SCR route with urea injection.

Prioritizing day-to-day ease of use for the operator and control of fuel consumption, John Deere has chosen the EGR+DPF route for all of its engines and therefore all of its machines, thus adopting the same approach as the major names in diesel engines for non-road machinery subject to heavy loads and operating in harsh conditions, such as those found in the civil engineering and forestry sectors.

For dealers and agricultural machinery repairers, the transition to Stage III B will also be an important step.

They will need to be able to present to their customers the respective advantages of the engine manufacturers' technological choices, explain how to use them, and warn them about fuel quality: only GNR, the recently introduced new non-road diesel, must be used in Stage III B engines, on pain of serious breakdown, whichever technology is used, EGR + DPF or SCR.

To this end, John Deere has set up a program for its dealers, called NMQ for New Machine Qualification: only dealers whose staff have completed sales training for some and technical training for others, who have acquired the tools specific to this machinery, and who hold a stock of first-priority spare parts will be able to order, and therefore sell, a machine fitted with a Stage III B engine.

Customers of John Deere dealers will thus be assured of receiving the best advice when choosing and taking delivery of their machinery.

And they will deal with maintenance technicians who are fully trained and equipped, for a service that lives up to their expectations.