How advancing digital and equipment technologies, emerging products and economic megatrends are conspiring to thrust machine control to the forefront of the construction industry.

Intelligent Machine Control is brand new, displayed on a D61EX/PX-23 dozer at bauma 2013. Komatsu also has conventional grade-control-ready packages to support installation of both Topcon and ...

Case CE has introduced factory-fit machine control on its 750M through 2050M dozers. The new offering includes factory installed and calibrated 2D, dual mast 3D, and SiteControl CoPilot precision ...

Hyundai HD130A bulldozers now come Trimble Ready for easy 3D Earthworks grade control installation, boosting accuracy, speed and jobsite productivity.

Introduction of GLONASS and modernized GPS signals into construction receivers means machines can be used for mass excavation and bulk earthmoving in more obstructed areas and in deep cuts. Market ...

Komatsu has released the D375Ai-8 “intelligent” dozer, the company’s first mining dozer incorporating its fully integrated intelligent Machine Control system, which delivers proven ...

The roots of machine control stretch back a century. The Historical Construction Equipment Association (HCEA) posits that the A.W. French & Co. “utility grader” of the 1920s, a crawler-mounted unit ...

Topcon Positioning Group has released a new 3D dozer machine control system — 3D-MC MAX. The system is driven by dual IMUs (inertial measurement unit) designed to increase on-grade performance where ...

Shantui has used the BICES exhibition in Beijing, China to unveil its first ever GPS machine controlled dozer, the DH17R. The 19.3 tonne, 127 kW machine was demonstrated using a Leica iCON GPS 60 ...

Shantui has used the BICES exhibition in Beijing, China to unveil its first ever GPS machine controlled dozer, the DH17R.