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In 2017, Eaton and Cummins announced the formation of a global joint venture that provides customers with industry-leading transmission technologies and solutions that deliver best-in-class fuel efficiency, performance and uptime while leveraging both Cummins’ and Eaton’s global service and support networks. Cummins and Eaton each own 50 percent of the joint venture, Eaton Cummins Automated Transmission Technologies.
Eaton Cummins Automated Transmission Technologies leverages the technical strengths and experience of two industry leaders with long histories and deep industry expertise to design, assemble, sell, and support heavy-duty automated transmissions for the commercial vehicle market.
More recently, Cummins acquired Meritor (now known as Cummins Driveline and Braking Systems) and now offers complete powertrain solutions - from engine to transmission to axles - with every component working in harmony.
Integration means uniting both organizations as one team, from project planning and creation to sales and service of the whole powertrain package.
Integration happens on many levels. It's not only about how the engines, transmissions and axles work together to move the wheels. It's also about how the whole team works together to make it happen. Integration is a broad term, but in the end, it means a better product, better customer experience, better support and one face for our customers.
It starts with knowing our customers and what they need. That helps define our product roadmap. From an engineering perspective, a team of engineers with specializations in the engine, transmission, and axle work closely to make sure that hardware and software requirements are gathered. We plan things together. We develop the timelines for both hardware and software testing using events. These are executed not only locally at test tracks and test fleets, but in extreme conditions of heat, cold, and altitude across North America. Everything happens in a coordinated way where we can rely on each other, reducing duplication, increasing collaboration and optimization - saving time and cost for both organizations.
Eaton Cummins and Cummins each bring a century of experience in the commercial vehicle market to the table. Combining that knowledge, that deep level of expertise, is what a Cummins integrated powertrain offers to a customer. We are not just bolting an engine, an automated transmission and an axle together. A lot of work goes into making sure that the powertrain is calibrated and performs. This expertise allows us to develop a powertrain package that is comparable to or superior to other powertrains on the market.
As emissions regulations become stricter in the future, powertrain integration will be more essential, so we will keep working together and developing powertrains that comply with CARB and EPA standards and offer customers the dependability and maintainability they need. Moreover, we will keep looking for ways to enhance the customer experience.
We want to minimize vehicle downtime when there is a product issue, so we have trained our field teams on the fundamentals of the engine, automated transmission and axle. But with an integrated powertrain, which is a complex system, it is more logical to have our large and skilled customer support team of experts concentrate on the products with which they are most familiar. Therefore, the Cummins field team deals with the engine from the fan to the flywheel housing. The Eaton Cummins team oversees the clutch and transmission specific issues, and the Cummins Driveline and Braking Systems team covers the axle questions.
Cummins has an extensive network of sales and service distributors. Eaton Cummins transmission concerns can be directed to the Roadranger call center. Cummins Driveline and Braking Systems are supported by the Driveforce team.
