Three medals for New Holland at Agritechnica for innovations that improve farmers' productivity and safety

Developing more powerful and higher-performing machines is New Holland's daily business.
Controlling productivity has become essential, and to do so, machines must be able to deliver their full potential.

With the IntelliFillTM automatic trailer filling system, the driver can concentrate on driving, confident of optimizing loading while reducing losses.

On the harvesting side, New Holland has developed the Opti-FanTM system, which allows settings to be adjusted according to the slope: once again, a guarantee of significant gains!

Finally, the ABS SuperSteer™ tractor braking system offers greater safety and provides unprecedented assistance for traction and maneuvering.

Gold for the automatic trailer filling system

New Holland received a gold medal, Agritechnica's highest award, for its new IntelliFillTM automatic trailer tracking system linked to the FR9000 forage harvester.

This system will enable the operator to fill a trailer extremely precisely and with minimal losses, even in poor visibility.

Following a front-to-rear or rear-to-front path, the IntelliFillTM uses a 3D camera mounted under the spout to guide the crop flow into the trailer.

This system ensures even filling in all conditions, whether the trailer follows alongside the forage harvester or is behind it when starting new fields. The system can precisely control the trajectory of the crop flow, even at night.

How does it work? The sensor mounted under the spout creates a remote image of the trailer and its surroundings, based on NIR (near-infrared) technology.

Unlike conventional mono or stereo camera systems, which are disadvantaged by poor depth perception, the New Holland IntelliFillTM tracking system accurately positions the crop flow up to a distance of 20 meters.

The system can be used with any trailer, without needing calibration or adjustments to recognize a new trailer. The operator can thus automatically control the spout position and consistently fill all types of trailers.

The driver benefits from better driving comfort and greater safety and can concentrate on the header to increase yield.

During long working days and even after nightfall, the IntelliFillTM automatic spout guidance systematically reduces silage waste and thereby increases the overall quality of the forage harvester's work.

Fan speed adjustment wins silver

The New Holland CSX7000 combine harvester offers high harvesting capacity in a compact format.

Advanced features, such as SmartSieve, allow the CSX7000 to maintain high productivity levels with low grain losses when working on side slopes.

The new Opti-FanTM system compensates for the effects of slope when going uphill and downhill.

Traditionally, when going downhill, grain moves more slowly over the grain pan and the upper sieve. As a result, the grain stays longer in the cleaning shoe and the layer thickness increases.

More chaff and grain remain in the cleaning shoe because the cleaning fan speed is insufficient to clear the grain.

Going uphill, the layer thickness decreases: the grain leaves the shoe more quickly under the force of gravity. The airflow from the fan is then too high for the thin layer of grain. The result: the grain moves too quickly over the upper sieve, causing grain loss.

The fan speed adjustment system, the Opti-FanTM system, detects the downhill or uphill angle of the combine harvester and automatically adjusts the cleaning fan speed to compensate.

The operator sets the fan speed in the field and the system reduces the speed uphill and increases it downhill to optimize the layer thickness on the cleaning shoe.

The operator does not have to do any extra work, losses are reduced and grain cleaning quality is improved.

The silver-medal-winning Opti-FanTM system takes combine harvester performance on slopes into a new era.

?ABS SuperSteer? braking wins silver

Anti-lock systems have become commonplace on cars and trucks, but the additional complications of heavy articulated equipment, uneven terrain and enormous variations in traction, even from one wheel to another, call for a more advanced, effective anti-lock system for tractors.

New Holland won a silver medal for its ABS SuperSteer™ system, an intelligent application of ABS technology to agricultural tractors, providing not only superior traction power and enhanced safety, but also better maneuverability and safer use on side slopes.

The ABS SuperSteer™ system uses ABS technology to manage braking individually on each wheel. This new function will be available on current and future high-power New Holland tractors such as the T7000 Auto Command.

The ABS SuperSteer™ system will enable a new generation of tractors with front axle suspension to achieve an exceptional level of agility in the field and ultimate driving comfort.

The New Holland SuperSteer™ axle, a pioneer in this field, remains available on the New Holland tractor range from 40 to 325 ch, but is limited to a maximum speed of 40 km/h.

With a single pedal, ABS SuperSteer™ allows the brakes to steer the tractor. Two orange pedal extensions, installed on either side of a single pedal, replace the traditional layout of two independent pedals.

At low speed, this system gives the driver the same one-wheel steering as a conventional tractor, but it deactivates automatically at higher speeds to prevent accidental application.

A second ABS SuperSteer™ function incorporates wheel slip control according to the steering angle. The tractor can thus make tight turns, without the driver applying the brakes, by pivoting on a braked rear wheel.

The turning radius achieved is thus comparable to that of a tractor equipped with a SuperSteer™ front axle.

The degree of slip allowed on the pivoting wheel, selectable by the driver, prevents soil damage.

Finally, the device offers a very useful function: hill-start assist.

The system improves tractor control on slopes by automatically applying the brakes to prevent the machine from rolling back when starting uphill and by facilitating clutch engagement with maximum smoothness.

With the ABS SuperSteer™ system, New Holland delivers a real advance in the safety and traction control of agricultural tractors.