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Technology

Telematics 101: How to use equipment data to track fuel, plan routes and diagnose problems

Editor’s Note: This is the third part in our ongoing Telematics 101 series of articles. To view the other articles in this series click here. Telematics data is a lot like a map to buried treasure. The information does you no good unless you act on it.  The gold is there. But, if you don’t pick […]

May 27, 2016

Construction Equipment

How dozers are leading the way toward smarter, more productive heavy equipment of the future

Electronics continue to lead the dozer technology parade, but there have been two big shifts in the way electronics are used. First, nearly all machines offer electronics packages as standard or optional equipment, where these features were once restricted to high-end models. Second, electronics packages come in lots of sizes to fit a variety of […]

May 24, 2016

Safety

StrongArm exoskeletons aim to eliminate back injuries in construction

Football players wear braces. Why not construction workers? StrongArm Technologies says their ErgoSkeleton braces are designed for the “industrial athlete,” which they define as anybody who does a lot of bending, twisting and carrying heavy loads in the course of a day. There are two products. The V22 ErgoSkeleton works as a lifting assist/load distribution […]

May 24, 2016

Technology

John Deere launches app for tracking maintenance intervals, repairs and more

John Deere has released a new app for the iPhone and Android devices that helps owners, operators and fleet managers keep up with machine maintenance schedules and repairs. The MyMaintenance app allows users to quickly view and document maintenance intervals, by date or by engine hours, along with the following: View equipment on a map and […]

May 16, 2016

Construction Equipment

Fuel cell research leads to breakthrough on more powerful batteries for electric vehicles

It’s no secret that the biggest hindrance to today’s battery technology is what the majority of the batteries that power our computers, phones, smartwatches and, increasingly, cars, are made of: lithium. After 20 years of hybrid car development and selling thousands of Priuses, Toyota may be more familiar with the frustrations of wrangling a highly unstable […]

May 11, 2016

Roadbuilding

Caltrans partners with Pavia for real-time data management on Livermore highway project

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is partnering with Pavia Systems to use HeadLight software for real-time data management on a widening project on SR 84 in Livermore east of San Francisco. HeadLight, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) inspection platform, compiles real-time, direct input from project inspectors on the job and is designed “exclusively for road-owning government […]

May 10, 2016

Technology

DeWalt unveils the MD501: A rugged phone for construction going head-to-head with Cat

While “the construction industry smartphone market is getting interesting” isn’t exactly a phrase I thought I’d be typing a few years ago, that’s exactly where we find ourselves today. In the last two years Cat has released a new smartphone nearly every six months—the latest even has a built-in FLIR thermal camera— through its partnership […]

April 26, 2016

Technology

Caterpillar’s Redbird drone integration will substantially deepen telematics data, and soon

As thousands of attendees milled about Caterpillar’s cavernous exhibit at the big Bauma trade show in Munich this week, a small red and black contraption hung quietly above the masses as they weaved between the hundred or so yellow machines on display. It’s a sight that in less than a few years’ time will be […]

April 14, 2016

Construction Equipment

Trimble layout and receiver combo simplify building, utility and landscaping layout for all types of crews

Trimble has unveiled a new five-beam layout laser at the Bauma show in Munich. The company’s new Spectra Precision LT52 Point and Crossline laser combines a 5-beam laser pointer with a horizontal and vertical crossline laser for use in a wide variety of construction layout and alignment applications. You can use the LT52 for interior […]

April 13, 2016

Construction Equipment

Cat’s Oberhelman: “Welcome to the age of smart iron”

In the coming years, the talk from Caterpillar will be technology, technology and more technology, if the remarks Cat Chairman/CEO Doug Oberhelman made at the Munich, Germany, bauma trade show today are any indication. “We talked about technology at the last bauma in 2013, and the digital transformation is even more important now,” he commented […]

April 12, 2016

Technology

Caterpillar unveils rebuilt VisionLink telematics dashboard with mixed fleet view, responsive design

Caterpillar has completely redesigned its VisionLink telematics dashboard, rebuilding the web interface to work better with smartphones and tablets and enabling it to display information from both third-party machine manufacturers and telematics hardware makers. Developed under Cat’s Virtual Site Solutions joint venture with Trimble and launched/unveiled at the Bauma trade show here in Munich on […]

April 11, 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