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Apps
ForConstructionPros App of the Week: Sage Construction Anywhere
Sage
Construction contractors can manage project information and access it from anywhere with seamless integration between the cloud and their mobile devices with the Sage Construction mobile app
The app allows employees and supervisors log employee time worked, type of time worked and link entered time to the activity performed on the job or to non-job related items.
Construction Technology
5 Things To Know: FAA Task Force Recommends Drone Registry
Federal Aviation Administration will combine recommendations with public comment and issue rules in 2016
Construction Safety
[VIDEO]Caterpillar Explains Technology for Stopping Accidents Caused by Operator Fatigue
Caterpillar explains how its system of cameras, smart bands and monitoring centers identify in real time operators whose fatigue might cause accidents
[VIDEO]Caterpillar Explains Technology for Stopping Accidents Caused by Operator Fatigue
Equipment Monitoring & Logistics
New AEMP Book Offers a Road Map for Profiting with Telematics
Telematics for Fleet Managers helps equipment pros find a starting point for adopting telematics, defines data sources, shows how to interpret data and make it useful in the real world
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Financing, Insurance & Leasing
Report: Going Paper-Free Achieves Payback in Fewer Than 18 Months
About half of businesses say digitizing content improves their ability to serve customers quickly and increases their overall productivity
Construction Safety
[VIDEO]Bechtel's 31-million Safe Work Hours at Nuclear Reactor Motivated by Charitable Giving
Charlie Duckworth talks about how the workforce achieved 31 million safe work hours, and supported charitable causes, during construction of Watts Bar Unit 2.
Video: Bechtel's Safety Record at Watts Bar 2 Nuclear Reactor Leads to Charitable Giving
Detectable Warnings
Cameras and Radar Activate Safety on Site
Active safety systems combine technologies to help operators better understand a machine surroundings.
Within the cab, Hyundai’s AAVM system provides operators with a virtual, composite view that shows the machine in the center and actual images from the four cameras.
Dozers
World's First Dozer-Pride Rap Music Video
Calling all Cat skinners: Caterpillar produced this music video -- the first dozer rap we've seen -- to promote the new Cat D6N. Uniquely entertaining bulldozer marketing.
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Machine Grade Control, GPS, Laser & Other
[VIDEO]Caterpillar Grade With Assist Automates Excavator Digging
New Grade with Assist function automatically controls boom and bucket angles to hold the excavator cutting edge precisely on grade. Operator only controls the speed of the cut with the stick
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Machine Grade Control, GPS, Laser & Other
New Cat Automated Grade Controls Usher in More Efficient Excavators
Caterpillar’s Grade with Assist addition to Accugrade takes over boom and bucket control to reach target grades 30% faster than unaided excavators
Caterpillar estimates its new Grade With Assist feature, that automates bucket and stick functions to follow a preset grade without need for operator control, can help an excavator operator hit grade targets 45% faster than machines without digital assist.
Equipment Monitoring & Logistics
[QUOTABLE] Dealers: Contractors Want You to Sell Service Using Their Telematics Data
Twenty-one-year fleet-management veteran encourages equipment manufacturers to get their dealers monitoring machines and acting when their's opportunity to prevent downtime
Dan Samford recently left Herzog Contracting Corp., after a 21-year career managing the Missouri-based firm's 3,300-unit fleet, to launch his own equipment consulting business. He has been one of the construction industry's leaders in implementing equipment-management solutions using telematics systems.
Equipment Monitoring & Logistics
5 Skills a Telematics Point Person Needs
Quickly building return on investment in machine-monitoring technology requires a point person who can balance technical, equipment and fleet-management skills
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