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Tag: Leica Geosystems
Machine control
Liebherr, Leica Geosystems form excavator control partnership
Liebherr’s crawler and wheeled excavators can now be factory equipped with 2D and 3D machine control systems as the result of a partnership with Leica Geosystems. The optional system can be added to Liebherr’s Generation 6 and Generation 8 excavators featuring both mono and two-piece booms and includes the ability to integrate a tiltrotator or […]
June 3, 2020
Construction Equipment
Bauma Preview: Kobelco Construction Machinery Europe to show company’s first electric compact excavator
Kobelco Construction Machinery Europe will showcase its first electric compact excavator and more at Bauma 2019. Details here on Equipment World.
April 5, 2019
Construction Equipment
As North American demand for tiltrotators grows, early adopters tout their versatility
Tiltrotators are well-known in Europe and are making headway in North American. See what contractors are saying about tiltrotators on Equipment World.
January 24, 2019
Machine control
Kobelco, Leica, Engcon team up to create tiltrotator full-auto machine control
Kobelco, Leica, and Engcon have partnered together to create an excavator with the ability to automatically adjust attachment's height and tilt.
August 30, 2018
Technology
Leica’s unmanned Pegasus Multiscope rover maps infrastructure in dangerous terrain
Leica Geosystems has partnered with a company called Milrem to launch the Pegasus Multiscope Unmanned Ground Vehicle—a mini-machine that can take GPS mapping and camera technology into places where you wouldn’t risk the lives or safety of your crew. Designed to perform GPS mapping chores on dangerous terrain the Pegasus Multiscope can work around minefields, […]
June 27, 2016
Dealers
Case CE dealers to begin offering Leica’s off-machine construction tools
Case Construction Equipment announced today that its North American dealers will begin carrying off-machine construction tools from Leica Geosystems. The move comes through the expansion of a partnership between the two companies established in 2014. With that agreement Case was allowed to integrate Leica machine control technology into its machines from the factory as well as […]
April 6, 2016
Technology
Leica DISTO E7500 laser distance meter measures up to 500 feet
Tape measures only get you so far, and they’re not the fastest way to take measurements, especially when you have a lot of them. Leica Geosystems has introduced it’s DISTO E7500 laser distance meter with a 4X zoom capability that can take measurements up to 500 feet. In sunny conditions when the red laser point […]
January 20, 2015
Roadbuilding
The future of innovative transportation solutions on the Battleship New Jersey
It almost seems symbolic that a seminar on innovative solutions that are shaping the future of transportation engineering is taking place on a historic battleship since moving our nation’s infrastructure forward with a lacking of funding has been a real battle. Next week, on Sept. 10, Leica Geosystems, in conjunction with the Surveyors Association of […]
September 2, 2014
Roadbuilding
Case forms strategic partnership with Leica Geosystems for machine control tech
.Case Construction Equipment announced Tuesday it has entered into a strategic partnership with Leica Geosystems to provide machine control technologies in its construction equipment. The partnership is part of a global alliance between CNH Industrial and Leica Geosystems. As part of the  agreement, Case and Leica Geosystems have committed to shared product development. The agreement […]
April 1, 2014
Construction Equipment
Leica launches iCON grade iGD4SP machine control for dozers
Eliminate the need to rework areas when handling material in grading operations with Leica Geosystems’ iCON grade iGD4SP, which calculates the lift, angle and tilt of the dozer’s six-way blade. Enabling operators to angle the blade while iCON grade’s advanced hydraulic control system controls the blade’s lift and tilt, the system constantly maintains grade at […]
March 17, 2014
Roadbuilding
Climbing Mont Blanc to test out surveying equipment
The highway and bridge construction industry uses surveying in building this infrastructure, but I bet most of you haven’t climbed a mountain to conduct surveying. This is a pretty neat video of surveyors climbing the Swiss Alps’ Mont Blanc in Heerbrugg, Switzerland, which is Europe’s highest peak, to try out a new measurement technology. However, […]
March 15, 2014
Roadbuilding
No Strings Attached
How the use of stringless paving technology on the UTAH I-15 Corridor Expansion Project saved time and money.
January 8, 2014
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