THE MAKING OF KOMATSU 980E AN INSPIRING HISTORY: How Engineers Built a 400-Ton Mining Giant and Solved the Problems of Power, Weight, Braking, and Extreme Hauling (DISCOVER SOMETHING NEW EVERYDAY) - Couverture souple

R. BRIGHT, ALEX

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ISBN 13 : 9798194565191

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

What does it take to move 400 tons of material across a mine, control it on a steep grade, and bring more than a million pounds of machine and payload safely back to a stop?

THE MAKING OF THE KOMATSU 980E takes you inside one of the most imposing machines ever created for large-scale surface mining and reveals the engineering decisions hidden beneath its enormous yellow body.

When mining demand began shifting beyond the 360-ton haul-truck class, Komatsu faced a difficult challenge. The company needed a true 400-short-ton mining truck capable of meeting demanding production requirements while remaining powerful, controllable, reliable, serviceable, and ready for an increasingly digital mining industry.

Building something bigger was the easy answer. Making that size work was the real problem.

Follow the development of the 980E from the demands that helped create it to the engineering that allows it to work. Discover why its frame must survive forces far beyond simply supporting a heavy load, how an 18-cylinder diesel produces 3,500 horsepower, and why that engine does not drive the wheels through a conventional mechanical transmission.

See how diesel power becomes electricity before reaching the traction motors. Understand what a 400-ton payload really means to mine productivity, why overloading can work against the economics of hauling, and how payload data helps mines measure what happens during every cycle.

Then confront one of the machine's most fascinating questions: How do you safely slow a loaded truck weighing roughly 1.38 million pounds on a descent?

The answer leads into a 6,000-horsepower dynamic retarding system, multiple layers of braking, traction control, operator protection, KomVision, digital monitoring, maintenance engineering, autonomous-haulage readiness, and the evolution toward the 4,400-horsepower 980E-5SE.

Written for mining enthusiasts, heavy-equipment fans, engineers, students, mechanics, technology readers, and anyone fascinated by machines built at an almost unbelievable scale, this book goes beyond specifications to explain why the 980E was needed, what engineers had to overcome, how its major systems work, and what its evolution tells us about the future of ultra-class haulage.

If you have ever stood beside a giant mining truck, watched one online, or simply wondered how humans make a machine this massive work day after day, this story is for you.

Get your copy of THE MAKING OF THE KOMATSU 980E today and discover the engineering behind the 400-ton giant.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798194565191
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible