The advances in machine control technology – using satellite systems to assist operators with the precision of the job, and giving contractors the data needed to control a busy construction site – are ...

As the ink dries on a new report, The Future of Machine Control from Topcon Positioning Solutions, senior vice president & general manager for the company’s business unit EMEA, Luc Le Maire, explains ...

Construction Technology Machine Grade Control, GPS, Laser & Other Machine & Grade Control in Construction Surface Prep How these technologies provide precision and finesse, even for novice ...

For many companies, the transition to machine grade control technology can be intimidating. "It amazes me to see some of these larger companies that aren't embracing the technology," says Haight.

Automated machine control automatically moves the blade or bucket to grade by talking to the machine’s hydraulics. Unlike with regular machine control, automated machine control technology places the ...

Machine control – the automation of construction equipment – is key to attracting new talent and addressing the skills shortage in the sector, accordi ...

What’s behind the lack of penetration in the marketplace of machine-control technology? I continue to hear numbers that indicate between 10 and 20 percent are using it. The general malaise in ...

Mastless machine control has been a technology on the come, with notable systems from OEMs, including John Deere (on dozers and graders), and traditional machine-control tech providers like Topcon.

Thomas Ondrey/The Plain DealerShown in his Cleveland State University lab, engineering professor Zhiqiang Gao's 20-year struggle to bring industrial machine control technology into the 21st ...

Researchers unveil new active disruptive-reject control technology. If you attended last month's International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS), you might think that you've seen it all when it ...

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