Building Daimler's New Automated Transmission
Daimler Trucks officials talk about the new Detroit DT12 automated manaul transmission to North American trucking journalists in Gaggenau, Germany.
Frank Reintjes, head of Global Powertrain, Procurement and Manufacturing Engineering for Daimler Trucks.
Blanks that will be turned into transmission gears.
A worker de-burrs a transmission gear during manufacture in Gaggenau.
A look at the inside of a Detroit DT 12 automated manual transmission.
A look at the inside of a Detroit DT 12 automated manual transmission.
HDT Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge shows how easy it is to spin the planetary gearing inside the transmission.
An overview of Daimler's transmission assembly facility in Gaggenau, Germany.
Assembly of the Detroit DT12 transmission in Gaggenau, Germany.
Assembly of the Detroit DT12 transmission in Gaggenau, Germany.
Completely assembled transmission awaiting testing.
Daimler Trucks officials (from left) Ehrhard Thiel, manager for Gaggenau Powertrain Production; Frank Reintjes, head of Global Powertrain, Procurement and Manufacturing Engineering; and Matthias Jurytko, Gaggenau plant manager, with the new DT12 transmission where it is being assembled in Gaggenau, Germany.
Transmission gears go through another step in the manufacturing process.
Finished transmission gears at Gaggenau facility.
Double gears that will go in the DT 12 automated manual transmission.
A worker at Daimler's Gaggenau, Germany, plant, does a quality check on a gear.
Careful quality testing is done of the transmission gears at the Gaggenau plant.
Assembly of the Detroit DT12 transmission in Gaggenau, Germany. This will move to the U.S. in 2015.
Assembly of the Detroit DT12 transmission in Gaggenau, Germany.
Assembly of the Detroit DT12 transmission in Gaggenau, Germany.
A completed transmission.
A display of the other transmissions manufactured at Daimler's Gaggenau facility.