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Photo Courtesy of Link-Belt Construction Equipment Co. A mobile crane lifts steel. New crane standard no longer allows users to exceed the rated capacity, even for load tests. Related Links: Crane-Age Limits: Anti-Dumping Bans Disguised as Safety? Link-Belt Gives Crane Owners Telematics Data The latest revision of the American national standard for mobile cranes, ASME B30.5-2014, brings major changes to the rules governing how crane users are to work within a lifting machine's capacity range, or load chart, and offers new guidance for inspection, maintenance and testing procedures.Mobile cranes today are designed to a finer edge than in 1968, when
Motorbooks The book costs $45 and contains many photos from historian Keith Haddock. Related Links: Caterpillar Is Quick on the Uptake Caterpillar's New Global Headquarters Takes Shape Right off the bat, veteran equipment writer Frank Raczon admits that the Caterpillar family tree, including the extended family of its capable dealer network, contains too many branches to appear in one book. However, he captures many of the earthmoving giant’s iconic machines in “Caterpillar: Modern Earthmoving Marvels.”Published by Motorbooks, priced at $45 and containing many photos from historian Keith Haddock, the new 224-page hardbound book begins with the pedigree’s namesake: the tracked
Photo courtesy of Makro Monitors constantly watch operations across Brazil. Related Links: Moving Data and Dirt Link-Belt Gives Crane Owners Telematics Data Brazilian crane and rigging contractor Makro Engenharia is one of many firms in construction using telematics to improve its productivity, but the company also is using the big data to boost the safety of its workforce and project operations with surprising results.As the company began implementing telematics more than two years ago, it found that thousands of safety violations were occurring per month on its projects. Today, that number is down to five or less. "We have had
Related Links: Big Data Boosts Safety in Brazil Link-Belt Gives Crane Owners Telematics Data Picture a remote set of boots on the ground that constantly sends out status reports on construction activity across the globe. Now, imagine that existing work tools—trucks, dozers, cranes and drills—are the virtual boots, beaming quintillions of bytes into the ether every day.This is how John Meese describes wireless telematics, which the senior director of heavy equipment for Waste Management, Houston, uses to keep tabs on a fleet of more than 5,000 pieces of machinery scattered across 700 locations in North America. Meese and his team
礼貌的卡特彼勒公司(Caterpillar Inc.Related Links: Link-Belt Gives Crane Owners Telematics Data Caterpillar Brings Telematics Solutions to CONEXPO Caterpillar Inc.’s recent announcement that it is investing in Chicago-based technology startup Uptake is a strong signal of the construction industry’s current appetite for data analytics.Contractors, rental companies and others who use heavy equipment have for years had the ability to collect data from their fleets. But much of that data is based on history—things that have already happened on a construction project. A new digital age is on
托尼·伊利亚(Tony Illia)/布新利luck罗克(Enr Brock)的照片在2011年的Conexpo举行了新闻发布会,不久之后他被诊断出患有癌症。相关链接:绿色的气味可能很快取代沥青的刺激性气味温暖混合沥青在建筑市场中加热J. Astec Industries Inc.董事长兼前首席执行官Don Brock于3月10日在田纳西州查塔努加(Chattanooga)去世。他今年76岁。For more than 40 years, Brock was the construction industry’s outspoken champion of hot-mix asphalt. In later years, he sought to make flexible pavements more environmentally friendly and recyclable.Brock—also known as Dr. Brock referring to his doctorate in mechanical