Cummins’ Jamestown plant rolls out new engine

Cummins rolled out the latest generation heavy-duty engine, the 2017 X15, at its Jamestown Engine Plant in New York on Wednesday. Company officials call the new engine a “game-changer in terms of reliability and fuel economy.”

Jon Mills, Cummins Director of External Communications, says the next-generation X15 heavy-duty engines exceed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 2017 greenhouse gas and fuel-efficiency standards, with lower fuel consumption, extended service intervals, enhanced performance and the highest quality standards across a 400 to 605 horsepower ratings range. In addition, he says that the X15 introduces an innovative approach to duty-cycle optimization, with two configurations, available as the X15 Performance Series and the X15 Efficiency Series. Cummins says that both configurations are available in limited production through the remainder of this year, with full production beginning in January.

“I am proud of the innovative, hard work that has gone into this game-changing engine platform, and we are excited to see these important products rolling off the line,” said Srikanth Padmanabhan, President of Cummins’ Engine Business. “Attention to detail was paramount from product design, to our talented colleagues bringing them to life on the manufacturing floor, to every step in between,” he added.

Cummins says that the new X15 engines build on the current ISX15 product with the implementation of an optimized compression ratio, air handling system and combustion process to increase both fuel efficiency and performance capability. Company officials say that customers will realize big savings through lower operating costs with up to 20-percent better fuel economy and 40-percent lower maintenance costs than 2010 ISX15 engines.

Cummins says that the X15 Performance Series is rated at 485 to 605 horsepower and provides an ideal power match for heavy-haul needs. For line-haul and regional-haul applications, company officials say that the X15 Efficiency Series offers an unmatched level of fuel efficiency and payload productivity.