Tag: Smart Construction

Construction Equipment

Remotely send machine files, tap into operating data with new Komatsu Smart Construction Remote

Komatsu has announced a new tool that gives contractors a huge expansion of remote access capability. The new Komatsu Smart Construction Remote app lets you tap into your machines remotely, allowing you to upload design files, view location data and help operators troubleshoot issues without having to travel to the jobsite. The application essentially lets […]

October 19, 2020

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Komatsu to debut latest Smart Construction at ConExpo 2020

Located in the North Hall booth N10825,  Komatsu America will demonstrate the solutions connections it has with its dealers and customers, and how those solutions leverage digitalization to control costs and timelines at ConExpo 2020. Included in this display will be the introduction of the latest version of Smart Construction, the  company’s suite of digital […]

January 6, 2020

Machine control

Komatsu unveils Proactive Dozing Control, dozer machine control that can be used “100% of the time”

Komatsu has upped the ante in machine control—again. Six years after the company became the first equipment OEM to bring a fully-integrated machine control system for dozers to market, called intelligent Machine Control, Komatsu is back with an update that is “far more advanced” than other systems on the market today, says Derek Morris marketing […]

August 15, 2019

Technology

Komatsu bringing the Skycatch drones powering work at its automated Japanese jobsites to U.S.

U.S. customers will soon be able to purchase the same custom drones built for Komatsu’s fully-automated site prep service currently running in Japan, here in the States. Komatsu and drone software company Skycatch have announced that the Skycatch Explore1 high precision RTK drone and the Edge1 GNSS base station are now for sale around the […]

November 12, 2018

Technology

Now we know why Komatsu bought a fleet of 1,000 drones from DJI

Komatsu launched Smart Construction, a drone-assisted, automated equipment service to alleviate the burden of the shortage of skilled workers in construction.

August 1, 2018

Dealers

Komatsu’s new ‘Smart Construction’ service takes all the guesswork out of GPS/GNSS earthmoving

One-stop shopping is a concept everybody knows from the retail world. For Komatsu this same idea is the key to getting more customers to engage with GPS/GNSS earthmoving technology. Last week at its Cartersville, Georgia demonstration facility, Komatsu unveiled a program it calls  “Smart Construction.” And though it shares the name of Komatsu’s radical drone-assisted, automated […]

June 3, 2016

Technology

Komatsu says its drone-powered automated equipment service eliminates 20-30% margin of error in soil volumes

Much like here in the U.S., Japan is experiencing a severe lack of skilled construction and craft workers. And right now, that shortage is only being amplified as Japan is in the middle of several stadium construction projects as the country readies to host the 2020 Olympics. Which is why the country is really hoping […]

October 20, 2015