A UK highway project has benefited from the latest software, GIS and GPS technology, Mike Woof reports. Sophisticated software, GIS and GPS technology has played an important role in a large highway upgrade project in the UK and helping to increase efficiency and drive down construction costs.
The high sophistication of GPS machine control systems has resulted in a fast pace of technological advancement. The three major players in the machine control sector, Leica Geosystems, Topcon and Trimble have all made major gains in recent years. The sophistication of the latest systems can combine satellite position data from the GPS and GLONASS networks with information from total stations to provide precise, high speed machine operation. Further more the firms have also prepared themselves for the intro
Trimble is expanding its range of machine control technology options for users of graders and excavators with the release of key new releases.
One is for the LOADRITE Payload Management system, which can now be utilised on excavators already equipped with the Trimble Earthworks Grade Control Platform.
The other systems are new versions of the Trimble Earthworks Grade Control Platform that can be used with graders or deliver automatic guidance for tiltrotators.
These are key developments for the firm, boo
Swiss mechanical engineering company Ammann is increasing the frequency of its successful global paving campus training courses in the Czech Republic.
These four-day-long expert knowledge sessions are run at the Ammann International Training Centre (AITC) in Nové Město nad Metují and, according to after sales projects manager and training centre boss Martin Sedláček, the idea is “to ensure that Ammann has a globally consistent (approach) to presenting, selling and servicing” the company’s fast-developing r
