Design and Development of New Generation Skid Steer Loaders

Ford New Holland invested in a project to provide a skid steer loader product line to be competitive over the long term in the growing skid steer loader market. They designed and developed a new generation family of skid steer loaders which are customer-driven to be highly-reliable, and competitive in features and performance, while meeting company goals for cost-effective manufacturing. Primary areas addressed in design and development were reliability, durability, serviceability, customer features and performance, complexity reduction and manufacturability.