Cummins (company)

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Cummins Inc.

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legal form Incorporated
ISIN US2310211063
founding 1919
Seat Columbus , Indiana , United States
United StatesUnited States 
management Tom Linebarger ( Chairman & CEO )
Number of employees 55,200
sales 19,110,000,000 US dollars
Branch Engine construction
Website www.cummins.com
As of December 31, 2015

Cummins Inc. is an American manufacturer of diesel and gas engines , headquartered in Columbus in the US state of Indiana . The company's shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange . Cummins generates more than half of its sales outside of the United States.

history

Cummins is named after the inventor Clessie Cummins , who played a key role in founding the company. He received financial support from William Irwin starting in 1919 when he began to improve the design of existing diesel engines.

Duesenberg-Cummins and test cars

Duesenberg-Cummins Diesel Special (1934)

To highlight the advantages of the diesel engine, Cummins built a few Duesenberg racing cars between 1929 and 1934 for the Indianapolis 500 . Dave Evans (1898–1974) drove his Duesenberg-Cummins in 1931 to 13th place; it was remarkable that he had covered the entire distance without a pit stop . In the same year, a Duesenberg-Cummins set the world record for diesel vehicles at Daytona Beach with 100.75  mph (162.14  km / h ). In 1934, Stubby Stubblefield qualified in a Duesenberg racing car with the second worst time for Indianapolis. His car had a Cummins six-cylinder two-stroke diesel engine . It lasted the full 500 miles and finished 12th. Cummins diesels were occasionally installed in Indy racing cars until 1952.

In 1930 Clessie Cummins drove from Indianapolis to New York in a car converted to a Cummins diesel. For this distance of 792 miles (1,274 km) he consumed fuel for just $ 1.38 . In 1935, he exhibited an Auburn passenger car with a Cummins diesel engine at the New York City Motor Show . The vehicle did not go into series production.

Younger story

In 1962, Cummins founded the Kirloskar Cummins joint venture with the Kirloskar Group in India .

Between 1963 and 1968, Cummins had an important customer in Germany: At the beginning of the 1960s, Krupp was looking for a replacement for its traditional but hardly competitive two-stroke diesel engines to power its trucks, and found it at Cummins. From 1963 until the end of truck production in 1968, Krupp installed Cummins engines.

In 1980, Cummins formed a joint venture with Case Corporation called Consolidated Diesel Corporation to develop and manufacture diesel engines. In 2008 Case New Holland acquired their 50% stake in this joint venture.

In 1996 the European Engine Alliance (EEA) joint venture was founded with Iveco and New Holland , in which each of the companies had a 1/3 share. Cummins sold its stake in this joint venture in 2008 to Fiat Powertrain Technologies .

Distribution network

Cummins has an extensive network of manufacturing facilities, distributors and dealers with 550 company-owned and independent distributors and more than 5000 dealers worldwide providing sales, service and maintenance.

Products

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Cummins is working on a 4.2-liter V6 and a 5.6-liter V8 to be installed in 2010-series Dodge Ram pickups. This new family of engines has an aluminum cylinder head with four valves, turbocharging and piezoelectric injection. The V6 is specified with 190 PS (142 kW) and 617 Nm.

The 5.9L (B-Series) used in the Dodge Ram has proven to be very successful. High-performance diesel engines with a displacement of more than 15 liters are manufactured in Seymour (Indiana) , Daventry ( England ) and Pune ( India ).

Engines

Cummins truck engine
  • A-Series
    • I3 - 0.9 / 1.4 / 1.7 l
    • I4 - 2.0 / 2.3 l
  • B-Series / ISB
    • I4 - 3.3 / 3.9 l
    • I6 - 5.9 / 6.7 l, used in Dodge Ram 2500 Roberit AG
  • C-Series / ISC
  • L-Series / ISL
    • I6 - 8.9 l
    • I6 - 10.0 l
  • M-Series / ISM
  • N-Series
    • I6 - 12.2 / 14.0 l (used in British Rail railcars)
  • X-Series / ISX
    • I6 - 14.9 l
  • K-Series / QSK
    • I6 - 19 l
  • V / VT series
    • V6 - 5.7 / 5.8 / 6.2 l (VIM / VAL)
    • V8 - 7.7 / 8.3 / 9.1 l (VINE / VALE)
    • V8 - 14.8 l

Power generation

Q series engines

Filter technology

The Cummins subsidiary, Cummins Filtration, sells filter products for diesel engines under the brand name "Fleetguard".

Turbo technology

  • Holset e Range
  • Holset x Range

Main competitor

Web links

Commons : Cummins  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leadership Team
  2. ↑ a b Form 10-K 2015
  3. ↑ a b Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark, jr .: The Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942 . 2nd Edition. Krause Publication, Iola 1985, ISBN 0-87341-111-0 , pp. 386 .
  4. ↑ Jon Ml Bill: Duesenberg Race Cars & Passenger Cars Photo Archive . Ed .: Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum. Iconografix, Hudson , ISBN 1-58388-145-X , pp. 55 .
  5. ^ Information Commins Company History
  6. ↑ Cummins'operations in India celebrate 50th Anniversary , Press Release, cumminsindia.com
  7. ↑ Jeffrey L. Cruikshank, David B. Sicilia: The Engine That Could . Harvard Business Press, Boston 1997, ISBN 0-87584-613-0 , pp. 344 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  8. ↑ Cummins to Conclude Joint Ventures With CNH and Iveco ( Memento of November 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 11, 2014 (English)
  9. ^ Engine Joint Venture Planned . In: LA Times , May 2, 1996, accessed November 11, 2014.
  10. ↑ Cummins announces conclusion of joint ventures with CNH Global nv and Iveco nv In: businesswire.com. Retrieved November 11, 2014 .
  11. ^ Dodge may offer more Cummins diesels in light duty trucks. In: AutoWeek . Archived from the original on July 17, 2007 ; accessed on November 11, 2014 .