2007 North American Class 6-8 Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems Aftermarket Customer Value Leadership Award
Award Description

The Frost & Sullivan Award for Customer Value Leadership of the Year is given to the company that has provided customers with solutions and/or services that provide the highest ratio of value to cost. The recipient has provided customers with products that provide quality, and innovative applications and features while staying extremely competitively priced. 

Research Methodology

 

To choose the recipient of this Award, the analysts track competitor features and prices within the industry. This is achieved through interviews with all market participants and extensive secondary research of proprietary data sources. Finally, the competitors are compared and ranked for relative position. Frost & Sullivan then presents its Customer Value Leadership Award to the company that received the number one industry rank.

 

Measurement Criteria

In addition to the methodology described above, there are specific criteria used to ascertain final competitor rankings in this industry. The recipient has excelled by staying competitive in the following criteria:

  • Customer focussed product portfolio
  • Product pricing strategies
  • Innovative product development
  • Processes that ensure competitive pricing
  • Additional functions offered by the product
  • Engineering support
  • Strategic partnerships
  • Adoption rates of products by the market

 

The 2007 Frost & Sullivan award for Customer Value Leadership of the Year is presented to Advantage PressurePro, LLC. This award recognizes the company’s sustained excellence in developing and introducing value-added tire pressure monitoring systems that not only offer the most advanced, innovative, and comprehensive TPMS solutions, but also provide customers high value for their money. It also highlights Advantage PressurePro’s customer-focused safety system design, development, and marketing strategies that have solidified its reputation as a manufacturer and supplier of tire pressure monitoring systems to the North American aftermarket by incorporating the most advanced safety enhancement and cost-saving features at highly attractive prices to fleets and owner-operators.

 

Advantage PressurePro, LLC has emerged as a key supplier of tire pressure monitoring systems for a wide range of vehicle segments and classes. The company is a key market participant and a pioneer in external tire pressure monitoring systems and technologies for heavy trucks and trailers, and has been active in the heavy truck aftermarket for tire pressure monitoring systems since 1991. It is now working to enhance its global footprint and to establishing strategic partnerships with market and technology leaders in an effort to augment the technology attributes and cost competitiveness of its heavy-truck- and trailer-focused tire pressure monitoring systems. Advantage PressurePro’s focus on integrating the most advanced state-of-the-art tire pressure monitoring technologies to its product portfolio has resulted in the development and introduction of the next generation of systems. These systems feature radio frequency and antenna technologies that transmit tire pressure to a central display system on a real-time basis at a very low cost. Advantage PressurePro, LLC has effectively leveraged its early-mover advantage in this emerging market and firmly entrenched itself as a major aftermarket participant, with the goal of penetrating the lucrative original equipment market.

 

PressurePro’s tire pressure monitoring systems are developed to warn the driver when one or more tires lose pressure or are under-inflated. An audible and a visual signal inform the driver of the pressure measurement in the under-inflated tires. Advantage PressurePro’s product development philosophy recognizes the need to develop reliable and durable systems that are not only affordable, but that also offer low lifecycle costs to fleets and that provide unmatched value for their money. The need to develop systems that offer a high return on investment and fast payback for large and small fleets of trucks, trailers, and tractor-semi trailers prompted Advantage PressurePro to pursue technology innovations aimed at developing an external tire pressure monitoring solution rather than an internal system. The company’s external tire pressure monitoring systems offer several unique benefits that differentiate them from internal systems, including:

  • easier and cheaper installation – quick and requires no tools
  • powerful transmission mechanisms of tire pressure measurements
  • greater safety value, based on greater reliability and measurability under all operating conditions
  • displays current pressures and alerts to low pressures while on the move or parked
  • 2 alerts for low pressures at 12.5% and again at 25% offers greater safety and savings

External systems can also be easily transferred from one vehicle to another, thus reducing expensive service costs and ensuring versatility and flexibility. This adds to the value of such systems to fleets and other end-users. 

 

The tire pressure monitoring solutions offered by Advantage PressurePro, LLC are focused on heavy-duty truck fleets and include two different types of monitors, which support 18-wheel and 34-wheel tractor-semi trailer combinations. Its tire pressure monitor derives air pressure measurements wirelessly from external sensors that are screwed onto the valve stems by replacing the dust cap and that constantly monitors tire pressure, immediately transmitting low-pressure readings when they occur. They are designed for a wide range of truck and trailer sizes, dimensions, and vocations. Monitors installed in the dashboard deliver accurate tire-pressure readings from sensors mounted on each tire. The systems can monitor the tractor/truck and trailer tire pressures independently or simultaneously, and the sensors are designed to work on tires and wheels of all sizes, up to 200 psi. Advantage PressurePro’s tire pressure monitoring systems install easily and do not require tire rebalancing, which results in considerable cost savings for fleets. Audio and visual alerts are issued if the air pressure in any tire drops by 12.5 percent and again at 25 percent.

 

Advantage PressurePro recognizes the importance of developing high-quality tire pressure monitoring systems that are built on a platform that ensures compact form factor and that minimizes power consumption for reduced maintenance. Moreover, it has consistently focused its research and development efforts on systems that are strategically priced to cater to a wide customer base. The average price of the company’s external tire pressure monitoring system solutions is 10 to 25 percent lower than the internal systems. Both truck/tractor and trailer-specific tire pressure monitoring systems are developed on crucial expertise from years of research and development and marketing efforts in systems that are reliable, dependable, accurate, durable and affordable. Advantage PressurePro’s tire pressure monitoring systems can prevent vehicular instabilities and accidents, thus reducing costly downtime and lost revenues.

 

Cost competitiveness has been a key growth strategy for Advantage PressurePro. The company has globally developed its technology competencies and strategic partnerships with leading manufacturers of sensors, automotive electronics and other crucial enabling technologies and components. Its ability to offer cutting-edge tire pressure monitoring solutions at the lowest incremental cost results from its effective use of its highly skilled research team and its identification of the parameters that influence purchase decisions in the heavy-duty trucking industry. Advantage PressurePro’s solutions have resonated well among North American fleets and have established the company as a prime mover in the aftermarket. Its systems not only enhance vehicle safety, but also increase tire life, increase fuel efficiency, and improve the performance of braking, handling, acceleration and emissions. The company is a pioneer in high-quality, cost-effective tire pressure monitoring systems with higher penetration in the aftermarket. Advantage PressurePro’s excellence in customer value leadership makes it a key participant in the North American Class 6-8 truck tire pressure monitoring systems market.