Manual Transmission Systems

Manual transmissions can be found in vehicle applications from passenger cars, motorsport applications, and off-highway equipment to military vehicles, configured for front, rear or multi-wheel drive applications. Ricardo has comprehensive engineering capabilities across all of these application areas and is equal to any manual transmission engineering challenge.

Manual transmission engineering services: 

• Concept studies, benchmarking and target setting
• CAE analysis for bearing, gear or casing analysis and optimization using the Ricardo SABR package
• Detail design of components and systems
• Dynamic simulation for shift quality optimisation using the Ricardo GSQA system, the worlds most widely used shift quality objective measurement tool
• Design of hydraulic components and systems
• Technology demonstrator design, manufacture and build
• Full production design to Ricardo or customer standards and processes
• Test validation of manual transmission and driveline products
• Supplier qualification, selection and management
• Full product homologation
• Application engineering of transmission and driveline systems into new vehicle platforms
• Warranty issue resolution – use of task force expertise as necessary to resolve critical production issues