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Can’t Cut Too Deep: Komatsu unveils PC360, 490LCi semi-auto excavators. We put one to work
In addition to updating its fleet of new dozers sporting the company’s intelligent machine control with a radio-controlled model,Komatsu has added two new excavators to its lineup of GPS/GNSS-guided machines. At its Cartersville, Georgia, demo facility last week the company took the wraps off the new PC490LCi-11 and PC360LCi-11 and gave us a chance to put […]
May 31, 2016
Equipment Experts
John Deere unveils 700K SmartGrade dozer, integrating Topcon system with machine refinements to accelerate operator productivity
“One of the biggest challenges our customers tell us they have is finding skilled labor,” says Liz Quinn, product marketing manager, John Deere Worksite. “With the baby boomers retiring out of the workforce, getting these brand new guys up and running the way that their predecessors did is a challenge.” The way Deere is meeting […]
February 8, 2016
Construction Equipment
John Deere unveils 700K SmartGrade dozer, integrating Topcon system with machine refinements to accelerate operator productivity
“One of the biggest challenges our customers tell us they have is finding skilled labor,” says Liz Quinn, product marketing manager, John Deere Worksite. “With the baby boomers retiring out of the workforce, getting these brand new guys up and running the way that their predecessors did is a challenge.” The way Deere is meeting […]
February 8, 2016
Technology
Caterpillar studying how drones can enhance heavy equipment production
Caterpillar is continuing the emphasis it has placed on predictive machine analytics in the last year with a collaboration that will explore how drones can assist in the collection of that data and more jobsite insights. The company recently announced a marketing agreement with French drone data analytics startup Redbird that will focus on how unmanned […]
January 7, 2016
Equipment Experts
Caterpillar upgrades D6N dozer with new transmission, 3 grade control technologies for 10% productivity boost
Caterpillar has unveiled what the company calls a “smart” upgrade to its D6N dozer, outfitted with an enhanced cab, a package of standard grade control technologies and a new fuel-saving transmission. The new D6N is powered by a Tier 4 Final-compliant Cat C7.1 ACERT engine that pushes 166 net horsepower. The XL model of the machine […]
November 30, 2015
Construction Equipment
Caterpillar upgrades D6N dozer with new transmission, 3 grade control technologies for 10% productivity boost
Caterpillar has unveiled what the company calls a “smart” upgrade to its D6N dozer, outfitted with an enhanced cab, a package of standard grade control technologies and a new fuel-saving transmission. The new D6N is powered by a Tier 4 Final-compliant Cat C7.1 ACERT engine that pushes 166 net horsepower. The XL model of the machine […]
November 30, 2015
Technology
Work trucks get a tech tune-up thanks to smarter transmissions, telematics
Technology isn’t just electrons and algorithms. It’s metallurgy and frame rails and a host of other details. Truck manufacturers use these tools to develop, produce and service what they sell. Some techniques for improving fuel efficiency in line-haul trucking don’t carry over well to vocational applications. Skirts and other aerodynamic features don’t help much on a […]
November 17, 2015
Technology
How Caterpillar is developing virtual and augmented reality to design and service heavy equipment
We are in the midst of a transition between ages. Data is everywhere. Computers will soon be in nearly every pocket and screens are increasingly being strapped to more and more wrists and heads. Even our homes, a thing that you wouldn’t necessarily have pegged as a data-intensive environment, have become Smart with a capital […]
October 22, 2015
Technology
Caterpillar will pay back $1 for each gallon of fuel you burn beyond its benchmarks
This week Caterpillar unveiled a new fuel guarantee initiative that will give participating contractors $1 back for every gallon of diesel their newly acquired machines burn above the benchmarked rates established by the company. The Fuel Consumption Guarantee program will run between May 1 and December 31 this year. Contractors who buy an eligible Cat […]
May 15, 2015
Technology
Software on John Deere, all other heavy equipment only “destroys” an antiquated idea of ownership
A recent blog from WIRED criticizing the impenetrable software programs that run John Deere’s ag tractors has created quite a stir in the equipment community. In a nutshell, the the author Kyle Wiens reports farmers are hopping mad that there are so many sensors and computers running these machines that you need the dealer to diagnose […]
May 13, 2015
Technology
Case CE consolidates equipment precision services under SiteSolutions umbrella
Case Construction Equipment has moved all of its precision services, such as telematics, into one group of services named Case SiteSolutions. The company says this move will create a “360-degree” business solution system for customers, and make equipment data gathered “more practical and intuitive” for contractors to use. “This starts with the extension of the […]
April 24, 2015
Equipment Experts
TEST DRIVE: Caterpillar’s low-tech, K2 dozer automation allows GPS-like machine control without the price tag (PHOTOS)
[imagebrowser id=235] A theme I hear from contractors these days is that more than ever, they are using dozers to do finish grade passes. Motor graders can do this too, but a motor grader is a one-job machine. A dozer can also hog out mountains of dirt, pile up brush and material, push out stumps, […]
April 16, 2015
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