Manufacturing Today Issue - 250 July 2026 | Page 158

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I first started here, all the parts to build an Alongside technological progression engine would arrive at a workstation and and manufacturing advances, Daventry each person would complete their stage has also evolved in terms of sustainability. before the engine moved on again. This“ We’ re really proud of our onsite solar farm, quickly progressed to using S-shaped flow which supplied a meaningful portion of the lines, then moving tracks, and now we site’ s 2025 power consumption,” Roy shares. have an AGV-driven assembly line under“ Beyond solar, we’ ve shifted from solventbased paint to water-based alternatives, development, which will enhance both our safety and efficiency.” which reduced emissions by 80 percent In fact, Daventry is often the home of while also decreasing hazardous waste innovation across Cummins, with many of from paint sludge and filters, and reusable its processes implemented in other sites packaging has become standard across new around the world.“ We installed a state-ofthe-art genset manufacturing line in 2017,“ We’ ve also conducted a two-year
production lines and supplier onboarding.
and the line has now been replicated in engineering program to test and validate our plants in India and Fridley, Minnesota,” the entire Daventry engine range to run Roy explains.“ We share innovation across on hydrotreated vegetable oil( HVO). The the company’ s global footprint, and our engines don’ t require any additional storage current focus is on how we can utilize AI or hardware modifications, and when run on to streamline our processes and make us HVO, emissions fall significantly compared even more efficient.” with conventional diesel.”
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