Hydraulic front load­er solu­tion with twelve soft­ware-based func­tions

With Tony Sei­del, Prod­uct Man­ag­er, 
Bucher Hydraulics, Klettgau (Ger­many) 
and 
Frank Selent, Busi­ness Devel­op­ment, 
Stoll, Lengede (Ger­many)

Tony Sei­del has been with Bucher Hydraulics for six years and is cur­rent­ly Prod­uct Man­ag­er. Soft­ware devel­op­ment pre­sents a real oppor­tu­ni­ty for him and his team to rede­fine the func­tion­al­i­ty of front load­ers. The oppor­tu­ni­w­ty to devel­op a front load­er soft­ware solu­tion for the renowned front load­er man­u­fac­tur­er Stoll was both fas­ci­nat­ing and chal­leng­ing.

Tony Sei­del, Bucher Hydraulics: “With the aim of con­stant­ly bring­ing new, con­vinc­ing sub­sys­tems to the mar­ket, in Jan­uary 2023, we pre­sent­ed Stoll with the idea of a soft­ware-based front load­er solu­tion with twelve func­tions – and the doors were wide open.”

Frank Selent, Stoll: “Bucher Hydraulics’ pro­pos­al for a joint solu­tion came at just the right time, as we were look­ing for a sup­pli­er who could cov­er both soft­ware and hydraulics.”

Tony Sei­del, Bucher Hydraulics: “We devel­oped the soft­ware solu­tion from scratch at our premis­es, test­ed it with trac­tors, con­sult­ed with Stoll reg­u­lar­ly in online meet­ings, sent them updates, or vis­it­ed Stoll to finalise on site – and thus cre­at­ed a ful­ly func­tion­al sys­tem in a very short time.”

Frank Selent, Stoll: “We can plug and play the hydraulic con­trol block with the soft­ware con­troller into our front load­ers and thus offer an inno­va­tion that we are con­vinced will rep­re­sent a quan­tum leap in the mar­ket.”

Now that the soft­ware-based front load­er solu­tion with twelve func­tions is ready for series pro­duc­tion, Bucher Hydraulics is already col­lab­o­rat­ing with Stoll on the next inno­va­tions, such as a tele­scop­ic front load­er for addi­tion­al hor­i­zon­tal reach and lift height. The pro­to­type, which Stoll pre­sent­ed to the pub­lic for the first time at the Agritech­ni­ca trade fair in Hanover (Ger­many), was award­ed a sil­ver medal.

Both suc­cess­es under­score Bucher Hydraulics’ com­mit­ment to mak­ing the work of farm­ers and con­struc­tion con­trac­tors even eas­i­er, more effi­cient, and safer.