Flender/Flender Gear Units/Helical gear Reduction Box H3
Common rail diesel technology is designed to be reliable, clean, economic, durable and in the MAN Group it is now

available for the engine of small truck up to large marine diesel. For service on the high seas the electronic

injection system has again been improved. "Now this technology is where we wanted to have it," says Fritz Rape, Member

of the Executive Board of MAN &. This in-house develop- ment combines conventional compo- nents of existing MAN injection sys-

tems with up-to-date hydraulic and elec- tronic elements that have been devel- oped further. "It was strategic decision to develop common rail for our engines ourselves in order to do better than what would have been possible with existing, external systems," said Pape. The result is the new engine type 3/4CR that is now being presented in Saalfelden, Austria. Smoother performance, lower emis- sions, lower consumption, flexible application in the respective area of usage: These are the most important advantages of common rail technology. Now this MAN technology that is well- established in the truck sector is also available for MAN &' four-stroke engine range. "In developing our injec- tion systems we have been able to build on many years of experience," said the Head of Research & Development, Dr. Ralf Marquard. Already in 1 the company had begun to develop common rail engines that went into serial produc- tion. Marquard and his team have stud- ied the different systems and have adapt- ed and optimized the technology with regard to the size of the engines and the particular demands of maritime usage. At MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG, sister company, common rail technology has been successfully applied for just over two years: approximately 9,0 MAN trucks are already on the road w