Tag: Komatsu PC390LCi-11

Machine control

With intelligent excavators ruling the marketplace, here’s how to find machine controls that match your needs

In the early days of machine control the customer had two options: take it or leave it. When manufacturers started bundling basic packages as standard equipment, the “leave it” option started to fade away. The early-adopter contractors heralded the arrival of machine control as the best thing since hydraulics, but many felt it was costly […]

March 18, 2019

Dealers

Equipment Roundup: Volvo revamps SSL/CTL lineup with ‘largest cab on market’; Komatsu intros PC390LCi-11 excavator; GMC’s redesigned 2019 Sierra has carbon fiber bed; 15 great landscaping attachments; Case adds universal machine control as dozer factory option

Case dozers get universal machine control compatibility as factory option Case Construction Equipment will now install a universal machine control kit at the factory as an available option on its production class M-Series dozers. The kit includes a harness for blade guidance systems, brackets and mounts, and universal jumpers. The kit works with systems from […]

April 9, 2018

Construction Equipment

Komatsu intros PC390LCi-11 excavator with semi-auto control

Komatsu is bringing its intelligent Machine Control technology (iMC) to another excavator size class with the introduction of the PC390LCi-11. It’s the fourth iMC-equipped excavator in the Komatsu lineup but the company says it’s the first 3D semi-automatic excavator that combines the “nimbleness and speed” of a 36-ton machine with the stability of a larger […]

April 2, 2018