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Emerging Technologies
CNH Industrial is pursuing a " plug-and-play " approach that allows technology partners to bolster its tech stack and
accelerate product delivery.
" We've built a lot of it but there are some opportunities
with sensor technologies and the perception
stack where we can always add more sensors and more
capabilities to make it stronger, " Garg added. Precision
Technology is now a dedicated team responsible for
product development of precision applications.
CNH Industrial has made strides in infusing new
talent by hiring engineering and technology experts,
Garg said: " In 2021, we insourced five times more tech
talent compared to the previous year.
" We're starting to bring more [tech talent]
in-house, and we're diversifying it, " he continued.
Auto-Cart allows the farmer to monitor and operate a driverless tractor from
the cab of the harvester while it offloads on the go, then return the tractor to
a predetermined unloading area.
automated combine increases productivity by fully
30 to 40 percent, " he said. The technology helps to
protect the soil, preserve grain quality and reduce
impurities to obtain higher grain prices, and allows a
semi-skilled operator to fully optimize the machine's
output. " We will launch automated features across
all our combine product ranges. We are already well
advanced in the development of the next iteration of
automation, " he added.
Software engineers needed
The Raven acquisition, while a significant step in
buttressing CNH Industrial's tech stack capabilities,
does not completely close all the gaps initially, in terms
of where the company wants to be, Wine explained. " It's
mostly plug and play: we can go rather quickly, but it
needs more software engineers, " he said. " We need to
[further] advance the stack. So, there's work to do, but
it's a clear path to get there. "
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" When you think about where our engineering centers
are located for our iron, we're getting smarter about
putting our software development teams right next
to them. The type of engineers [we're looking for
include] embedded firmware engineers, electrical engineers,
hardware engineers, cloud engineers, backend
database, machine learning, AI - it's everything. "
The ultimate goal of CNH Industrial's strategy is to
deliver a fully autonomous farming cycle, while increasingly
extending its expertise and enhanced capabilities
gained from the Ag business to the Construction
segment. The autonomous journey is already underway
at CNH Industrial. Since 2020, it's been commercializing
Raven's Omni-Power platform, an autonomous power
platform that interchanges farm implements and allows
the farmer to remotely operate the unit from a tablet.
In 2021, the first Auto-Cart commercial
sales began, and customer testing of Auto-Tillage
commenced. Auto-Spread and Auto-Spray will begin
customer testing on sprayer platforms this year.
" We have all the ingredients and all the tools
necessary to be leaders in autonomy and help our
customers throughout the entire farming cycle, "
Garg said. ■
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