Power management company Eaton has announced the new CMA Advanced Mobile Valve with Independent Metering, which offers manufacturers various possibilities to differentiate machine capabilities. The CAN-enabled electrohydraulic mobile valve features on-board electronics and sophisticated software algorithms, which the company claims, greatly surpasses industry standards for intelligence, capabilities, dynamics and control.
As part of Eaton’s advanced class of Dynamic Machine Control solutions, the CMA valve empowers original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to impact and improve every phase of the machine life cycle. The CMA valve is available with rated flow of 90 or 200 liters per minute (LPM). Independent metering on the valve allows each spool to control its own work port for consistent speed and better control on services which transition between passive and over-running states. Real-time diagnostics and hose burst detection are made possible through the use of twin spool architecture, on-board sensors and data processing that provide pressure information to the user interface and implements proprietary Eaton control strategies to optimize performance.