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AUTOSENSE Systems of Bicester has won a contract with £1.4m to supply the Cummins engine Company with engine test equipment for its Darlington plant where production of the new B-Series, Cummins/ Case small engines is scheduled to begin next year.
Cummins is spending £12m on re-equipping the Darlington plant for B-Series production.
Autosense, which is a subsidiary of the United Technologies Corporation, says that its testing system at Darlington will be "the first fully automated, quick hot test facility for diesel engines in the UK and certainly the fastest."
Every engine will be tested in a six-minute cycle, which is reckoned to be four or five times faster than current systems.
The engines will be fed into the test cells on specially designed pallets carried on a roller conveyor. Coupling of the engines to the test beds is fully automatic.
Autosense will be supplying the computer which will control all the test beds as well as the cooling, lubrication, fuel, exhaust and ventilation equipment.