Volvo CE joins Open-S Alliance

Published 23/11, 2021 at 14:40

The Open-S Alliance works towards the global interchangeability of hydraulic work tools for excavators has now seen Volvo CE join as its first excavator OEM.

The Open-S Alliance is a manufacturer-independent organisation working to safeguard global interchangeability of hydraulic powered work tools and attachments for excavators. Membership is available as either full, associate or supporting depending on if Open-S products are developed, produced in house or sourced. Since early 2021 Volvo CE has delivered quick couplers and adaptors directly from the factory and is now joining the Open-S Alliance as a supporting member in a bid to make customers’ day to day work even more productive. “We are very happy that Volvo Construction Equipment also formally joins the alliance as a technology leading OEM. We also see that the interest is growing from other excavator brands. I am firmly convinced that open and standardised interfaces will give end customers major advantages. It makes it easier to use many different work tool brands without being locked into a proprietary solution owned by one manufacturer,” says Stefan Stockhaus, chairman of the Open-S Alliance.

 

About Open-S 

The purpose of Open-S is to provide global interchangeability between quick couplers, tiltrotators and work tools from different manufacturers. The standardisation work has been ongoing for the last two years with the purpose to increase safety and efficiency for excavator owners, operators and ground personnel thanks to the interchangeability of hydraulic powered work tools. The Alliance also aims to create a competitive and open industry standard that is not controlled by a single producer, create a standard that is user friendly and follows the highest safety standards, create a uniform manufacturing standard for dimensions and tolerances as well as make it cost efficient to retrofit adaptor brackets to used and new buckets and work tools. The Open-S Alliance is a non-profit organisation with the sole purpose of developing and promoting the Open-S standard. More information is available at: www.opens.org.

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