John Deere 850K and 1050K Crawler Dozers Take Home Red Dot Design Awards
John Deere received the 2016 Red Dot Award for its 850K and 1050K crawler dozers. The Red Dot Awards are determined by a jury of independent design specialists from 41 countries. In collaboration with BMW Group subsidiary Designworks, Deere developed an industrial design language on the 850K and 1050K for mining, quarrying, road building and other large-scale operations.
“The award underscores the hard work of the John Deere team and our partners to deliver strong, durable machinery that helps our customers achieve outstanding results,” said Doug Meyer, global director construction engineering.
Deere included equipment owners and operators from the beginning of the design process to develop optimal solutions for the updated 850K crawler dozer. Key serviceability features, such as the V-cool package are offered. The entire Deere K-series crawler dozer product line now has a spacious redesigned cab. The overall design emphasizes chamfering to enhance visibility to the blade, side and rear of the machine.
Manufacturers and designers entered a record number of about 5,200 innovations in the Red Dot Award Product Design category in 2016.
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.