Piloting a fighter jet, removing a brain tumor, programing a particle accelerator, and operting a hydraulic excavator all require a high level of skill. Quick thinking, eye-hand coordination, and ...

Although global positioning system (GPS) technology has been around since the mid-90s, it's really taken off in the construction industry during the last few years. One reason for that, says Fred ...

Guidance and precision control, the base elements of modern machine control for construction, have continued to evolve since broad productization began in the mid-1990s. However, the value proposition ...

Metts Construction, Chapin, SC, added a CASE 1150M dozer with a Leica Geosystems dual GPS machine control system to its fleet. The resulting efficiencies and improved performance allow the company to ...

Combining GPS tracking with digital plan data, the 3D-GPS system allows the operator to grade any design surface within a few centimeters' accuracy. The software has a single or multiple design axis ...

Machine grade control technology has evolved to allow faster speeds and tighter accuracy, as well as more machine forms including dozers, motor graders, excavators and wheel loaders. Various solutions ...

GPS machine control is making significant inroads in the site work and infrastructure construction field, and Sarasota, Fla.-based site work contractor KLM Services is one of the growing number of ...

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PrecyseTech, a leading pioneer of wireless Remote Entity Awareness and Control (REAC) solutions for managing high-value physical assets and personnel, announced today an ...

Komatsu America Corp. has introduced Proactive Dozing Control logic, a fully-integrated dozing control system that allows operators to perform auto-stripping, auto-spreading, high production dozing ...

Trimble introduced GCSFlex Grade Control System for Excavators in 2011 as an affordable, easy-to-use machine control system for owner operators and small to mid-sized contractors who want to increase ...

LIVERMORE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Topcon Positioning Group has announced its MC-Max machine control solution. Based on its MC-X machine control platform, and backed by Sitelink3D — the company’s ...