Longtime operators of offroad construction equipment may be extremely facile with travel sticks and pedals or levers for blades, booms and end effectors. But an expert operator in every cab is already ...

Construction equipment machine control is extending into more classes of equipment and encompassing lighter equipment. Grade control in particular is making its way beyond dedicated excavation and ...

Caterpillar, an Irving, Texas-based construction and mining equipment manufacturer, has launched its new Cat 980 GC Wheel Loader. The wheel loader offers low fuel consumption with an on-demand fan, ...

Automation in off-highway equipment has gone beyond Australian, South American, and American Southwest mining to conventional job sites in familiar places such as California, Florida, and Canada. And ...

Machine control systems, which combine positioning sensors — both GNSS receivers and inertial systems — with computer displays, give operators better insight into and control over their work. Whether ...