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By Amy Materson  EDITOR’S PICK Creature Comforts Boost performance with Hyundai’s R60CR-9 compact radius excavator, which has a range of features aimed at improving productivity. The 13,010-pound machine’s Yanmar 4TNV98 engine delivers 56 net horsepower at 2,400 rpm, and includes heavy duty rings, pistons and bearings manufactured from high strength alloys. An advanced hydraulic […]
March 24, 2011
Lumidigm to provide telematics solution at CONEXPO-CON/AGG
Lumidigm customers can verify who operates their equipment with the company’s multispectral imaging sensor, which provides biometric fingerprint authentication. The turnkey telematics solution will be showcased at CONEXPO-CON/AGG as part of the Rugged Telematics Alliance Ecosystem, developed with Methode Electronics. The fingerprint authentication system works in dry, wet and dirty conditions, and enables the owner […]
March 16, 2011
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Backhoes By Tom Jackson, executive editor, Equipment World  Contractors extend trade-in times, rely on used equipment As with just about every other category of equipment, the sales of both new and used backhoes plunged between 2006 and 2010. What’s a little less obvious until you do the math is the ratio of new to […]
March 4, 2011
Roadbuilding
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Sneak Peek from the Big Show One fascinating launch at the CONEXPO-CON/AGG show this month is John Deere’s Service Advisor Remote. The pre-show teaser is intriguing: by tapping into your Deere Tier 4 Interim machine’s telematics, a Deere dealer will be able to remotely diagnose and fix a diagnostic trouble-code problem. (It also works on […]
March 2, 2011
Business
Kenworth, Sprint partner for mobile connectivity in Class 5-8 trucks
Kenworth Truck Company and Sprint are involved in a partnership to provide mobile connectivity for the revolutionary Kenworth NavPlus, a PACCAR proprietary navigation and business technology system for Kenworth Class 5-8 trucks.
January 25, 2011
Technology
CONEXPO/CON-AGG 2011 (Sponsored Information)
ALLU GROUP, BOOTH 218 G-218 Screener crushers to fit wide range of machines ALLU Group’s D-Series screener crusher attachments fit machines weighing 8,000 to 100,000 pounds. Some models have changeable blades, allowing you to quickly switch from screening to crushing to mixing and stabilizing different materials. The attachment comes with three frame options: basic, strong […]
December 31, 2010
Business
Machine Matters More
Loaded up and ready to roll Teammate to the large excavator, the articulated dump truck increasingly smoothes out a bumpy ride By Mike Anderson So, with six scoops and swings of the 45-metric-ton excavator, the articulated dump truck is loaded and ready to take the dirt away. Now the articulated truck takes over as it […]
December 29, 2010
Business
Innovations 2011
The Aemp telematics standard An association convinces industry rivals to cooperate and collaborate on a software code that will revolutionize the industry By Tom Jackson The basic premise behind our Innovations Awards is to acknowledge the best in new equipment technology. But this year, for the first time in the seven years we’ve been giving […]
December 29, 2010
Business
Maintenance/Management
Fleet management software Once you put all your equipment data into an integrated software program you’ll wonder how you ever did without. By Tom Jackson Not every contractor needs a fully featured software product to help with equipment maintenance and management. But if you’re trying to manage a dozen or more pieces of yellow iron, […]
December 5, 2010
Machine control
Technology
Tech tools Track, control, monitor and easily transfer information By Tom Jackson From pickups to dozers, telematics system tracks anything in your fleet If it’s a machine and it moves, you can track and manage it with the new Navman Wireless Qtanium 300 GPS tracking device. Designed to work with both on-highway trucks and off-road […]
November 9, 2010
Maintenance
Volvo machines now come with CareTrack
Volvo Construction Equipment machines – wheel loaders over 10 tonnes, articulated haulers, excavators over 12 tons and motor graders – in the U.S. and Canada will come standard-equipped with CareTrack, Volvo’s telematics system. CareTrack facilitates mapping and tracking, monitors machine utilization and fuel consumption and manages maintenance costs. The system communicates using a GSM/GPRS mobile […]
September 21, 2010
Business
Maintenance
Information flows in mixed fleet applications using new AEMP telematics standards   If you’ve stayed away from telematics* in the past because of the complexity, good news is coming. Starting in October, an industry-wide standard will take effect that makes it possible to collect mixed fleet data from multiple OEMs and download it into […]
September 9, 2010
Technology
Volvo offering Fuel Efficiency Guarantee program
Volvo Construction Equipment has started a Fuel Efficiency Guarantee program that is being offered on the company’slarge wheel loaders through Dec. 31, 2010. Based on fuel consumption reports, Volvo Construction Equipment will evaluate the fuel efficiency and share the difference in fuel cost with the equipment owner if the machine does not meet the individual […]
August 31, 2010
Business
Technology
Advanced telematics Making the case for moving into full-featured systems from third party providers By Tom Jackson When the Association for Equipment Management Professionals new telematics standard goes into effect in October (see the June 2010 issue of Equipment World), data collection will start getting a whole lot easier. That’s when it will be possible […]
August 1, 2010
Telematics
Orbcomm provides wireless data for Komatsu
Komatsu and Orbcomm signed an agreement allowing Orbcomm to continue to provide wireless data services for Komatsu’s heavy equipment telematics operations. The multi-year agreement covers the Komtrax and VHMS onboard machine monitoring and communications systems.
July 16, 2010
Maintenance
Product Report
Bobcat and Doosan heavy up High-reach skid steers, a slew of Bobcat and Doosan new excavators and a pair of wheel loaders are coming to a dealer near you. By Tom Jackson Recession or no, the engineers at Bobcat and its parent company South Korea-based Doosan Infracore Construction Equipment have been hard at work developing a […]
June 25, 2010
Equipment
Bauma 2010
Signs of a rebound in Europe’s big show, despite the travel problems By Therese Dunphy and Tom Jackson  Even though the volcano in Iceland grounded almost everyone in North America, the big European equipment show Bauma was held April 19-25, and drew a large international audience who saw new products from manufacturers around the […]
June 3, 2010
Business
Topcon names new director of sales support
Topcon Positioning Systems named Kai Umino as the company’s new director of sales support. Umino will be responsible for domestic and international sales support groups for TPS, including survey, construction, precision agriculture, emerging business and telematics. Umino replaces John Fujita who will return to Topcon headquarters in Tokyo. Umino joined Topcon in 1995 and spent […]
March 22, 2010
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