At Futureworx, Plantforce Rentals showed how it is remotely monitoring site work in real time.
Plantforce Rentals is one hirer demonstrating the potential for digital tech on heavy construction projects. At the Futureworx show in March, it set up a live ‘connected site’ demonstration, which linked all machines together on a single project dashboard. The hirer operated this from its training facility, run by LP Training near Stratford-upon-Avon, some 80 miles away from the event.
The company used a fleet including two Kobelco excavators, one with Leica Geosystems’ semi-automatic system, the other with Trimble 3D machine control, and a Trimble-enabled Cat dozer. They were linked together by telemetry specialist MachineMax’s equipment management platform.
Plantforce COO Sam Mercer says: “The MachineMax solves one of the biggest industry problems, collating information from different machine types into one dashboard. This allows us to take data and turn it into useful information, which is in turn fed to the people managing the operation.”
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