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Alignment is carried out in various
stages of manufacturing process.
Axle Alignment System ensures
precise Toe and Max-Turn setting
for steerable axles in axle assem-
bly stage itself. Caster influence in
the truck will also be automatically
compensated.
Rear axle alignment system en-
sures maintaining the main driven
axle exactly 90
0
to the chassis frame
‘out-of-square’. Aligning the main
driven axle correctly at the assembly
stage will prevent the difficult job of
realignment on a completed truck.
Axle parallelity system meas-
ures parallelism of other axles us-
ing main driven axle as reference
and also measures straight ahead
position of the front axle. End-of-
line alignment system measures all
alignment angles in less than three
minutes. With alignment being car-
ried out in manufacturing process,
the end-of-line becomes mere qual-
ity check station.
It is interesting to note that the
principle of chassis centre-line based
wheel-alignment is introduced for
the OE dealers and tyre dealers. Af-
ter-market wheel alignment system
enjoys global approvals from Daim-
ler, Volvo, Scania and MAN. The
company is aiming for big success
in the after-market as well.
“We are keen on proving our
products through technology and
innovation. We will stick to our ex-
pertise and will not go for horizontal
expansion”, says Mr. Rengarajan,
Director, MAHA India.
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MAHA India has supplied its end-of-line unit to Volvo Buses, which repre-
sented the company’s first breakthrough. The company has also supplied
end-of-line units to Daimler India and VE Commercial Vehicles while the
units will soon be installed in AMW. It has installed its axle alignment sys-
tem at American Axle’s Chennai plant, and another axle alignment system
will soon be installed at the AMW facility in Bhuj.