At INTERMAT 2018 in Paris, BOMAG, part of the FAYAT Group, displayed its entire portfolio of compaction equipment for soils, asphalt and refuse, plus its range of stabilizers/recyclers, planers, and pavers. It also dedicated an entire area of its stand to the topic of digitization: in the Digital Corner, visitors could use virtual and augmented reality to find out more about the company's pioneering digital solutions, from the new BOMAG 360° technology for the compaction of asphalt through to the smart Digital Field Service for construction machinery.
Also on display were the latest innovations, such as the RS 500 stabilizer/recycler with side-shifting milling rotor, and the tandem roller model with new Tango4 exciter system, offering oscillation plus split drum for the first time.
The RS 500 stabilizer/recycler features a milling rotor that can be moved beyond the wheel edge. This allows the machine to operate up to the outermost edge of a road carriageway and still remain safe to manoeuvre.
The new generation, compact BW 124-5 single-drum roller features smooth or padfoot drum and a safe four-post ROPS/FOPS, travel lever operation for the optional dozer blade and a Stage IV/Tier 4 engine. It offers optimal gradeability, off-road performance and twin-amplitude compaction power. The single-drum roller is also available with Economizer.
Digital World of Road Construction
The company showed its technologies and innovations in reality and virtually at the Digital Corner. In a virtual reality simulation, visitors found out exactly how the Asphalt Manager, Vibration and TanGO (tangential oscillation) compaction technologies work and where their strengths lie. This 360° technology concept makes compaction flexible and universally applicable.
With technologies for asphalt construction and earthworks, at the Digital Corner showed BOMAG’s ground-breaking solutions in action, including: why Magmalife, the screed heating system for asphalt pavers, is as much as 25% faster than standard heating systems; how Variocontrol automatically controls the transfer of optimal power on single-drum rollers, and prevents overcompaction; how the Economizer ensures perfect results on soil and asphalt with vibratory plates, trench compactors, single drum rollers or asphalt rollers.
There is great potential with the digitization and networking of construction equipment to make processes more efficient and transparent in future. BOMAG has been a pioneer in this area. One example is networking tandem rollers with the display and documentation of compaction, temperature and number of passes generated by GPS measuring technology. This system has been successfully used for five years.
The servicing of construction machinery can also greatly benefit from digitization. BOMAG launched its new Digital Field Service at the Digital Corner for the first time. Using augmented reality glasses visitors to the stand experienced the way in which smart service concepts simplify servicing, maintenance and repair of construction plant. The focus is not digitization for its own sake, rather networking information from highly automated machines being put to practical use.
The digital service concept also includes the BOMAG service app for iOS or Android. With technical data, operating and maintenance instructions, spare parts lists and videos with quick guides, the user has everything to hand – including addresses of BOMAG dealers nearby.
