INNOVATIONS

Business Impact Awards

By James Foott | Manager, On-highway Engineering, APAC Cummins employees help us produce outstanding solutions for our toughest problems.

The ideas and innovation we pursue lead to dependable solutions for our customers’ and the company’s success. The Business Impact Awards recognise work that supports overall business goals and embodies Cummins’ Mission, Vision and Values. Andrea Lucas and Giang Mai from the Asia Pacific Engineering Team were recognised with DBU Business Impact Awards for 2021.

Andrea Lucas

Andrea’s Business Impact

The Customer Impact Award recognised Andrea’s project to design an oil level diagnostic system for QSK60 MCRS Tier 2 Engines. A customer had requested oil level monitoring systems in QSK60 MCRS engines like legacy engines. The project resulted in reduced engine downtime and helps avoid catastrophic failure, realising significant savings. There was a benefit in reducing customer safety risks and operating time through not having to manually check oil levels every three days. The project has been replicated in the Tier 4 product and adopted in South America, sharing the lessons we have learnt and improving Cummins’ offering globally.

Giang Mai

Giang’s Business Impact

The Environmental Impact Award recognised Giang’s project to develop the X15e6 Hill Climb Assist (HCA) feature. Upon launch of the X15e6 X1 series engine in Australia some customers noted a degradation in performance climbing hills relative to the Euro5 version.

The project involved designing and developing a HCA feature which included engine and transmission software plus hardware resulting in a simple switch drivers could use to increase performance when climbing hills without trade-off on fuel economy. With the HCA feature, drivers no longer rely on aggressive gear shifting resulting in higher fuel consumption to climb hills. The nominal 6% fuel consumption improvement reduces the amount of C02 and other pollutants, such as NOx and particulate matter. That could lead to a reduction of 20,460kg of C02 per engine annually. Customers also are seeing significant overall fuel economy improvement across fleets equivalent to an annual reduction of $12,374 per engine. The feature has been shared with global teams and implemented in Mexico already.

World Culture Diversity Day celebrated in Scoresby

By Stella Atherton | Project Manager The Asia Pacific Cultural Resource Group (APCRG) gathered at the Scoresby, Melbourne, office on 26 May to celebrate the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development.

Recognised in May, the annual World Day for Cultural Diversity gives people an opportunity to deepen their understanding of the richness of world cultures and the essential role of intercultural dialogue for achieving peace and sustainable development. APCRG’s event was opened by Riette La Roux, who acknowledged Traditional Owners and paid respects to the Bunurong, Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Wadawurrung peoples on the lands in and around where the event was held. Asia Pacific IT Director and event guest speaker Alan Loleng shared insights into Asia Pacific’s rich history of multiculturalism and how the region plays an important role in diversity at Cummins. Alan shared personal anecdotes that featured his passion for diversity through food. Using examples from the Philippines, Alan discussed the wide variety of cuisines, flavours and ingredients that vary across the country and in nations across the Cummins APAC region and throughout the world. Staff were encouraged to bring traditional dishes from different countries to share in a potluck lunch. Dishes included Filipino Bam-I, Vietnamese rice paper rolls, Indian vermicelli kheer and Filipino bico. The group also participated in a multicultural scavenger hunt, with Uyen Vu winning the challenge. Stella Atherton awarded prizes to the winners of the ‘Harmony in Sound and Music’ game that took place during the APCRG Harmony Day celebration in March 2021. Congratulations to Jackie Harry, Megan Skwierawski and Vai Gokhale who were each awarded a gift card.