Dana’s CTIS Celebrating Quarter Century

This year automotive component supplier Dana Corporation celebrates 25 years of supplying its Central Tire Inflation Systems (CTIS) to military and commercial vehicle customers. Initially developed for use by the US armed forces in 1984, Dana reports that it now supplies its CITS to OEMs in the North America and global markets.

“Dana CTIS is selected by more military vehicle OEMs than all of the competitive systems combined,” said James Beverly, Dana’s chief engineer of advanced chassis control systems. “The product is used extensively by the US Army and Marine Corps, as well as NATO forces, and in a variety of commercial vehicle applications such as oil field exploration and construction.”

CTIS enables allows accurate selection of tyre pressure for terrain and load condition at the push of a button, thereby increasing traction on unimproved roads, severe grades, sand and mud, as well as facilitating higher vehicle speeds over a greater variety of terrains. The company has acquired more than fifty CTIS patents during its quarter century history.

“Dana CTIS has proven to be robust and reliable over its 25-year run, having undergone numerous enhancements and upgrades,” added Beverly. “For example, all of our electric control units, pneumatic control units and proprietary algorithms have been validated and tuned as a system to meet customer requirements with exceptional performance. And it is commonplace for our engineering and new vehicle development teams to accommodate new vehicle platforms in a fast, efficient and cost-effective manner to meet a wide range of customer-specific requests.”