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Metso Outotec launches online tool for metal recycling machines
Metso Outotec launches online tool for metal recycling machines The new Index operating and production data collection system from Metso Outotec’s Metal Recycling business transfers relevant data from the recycling machine directly to the customer’s equipment. Metso Outotec Metal Recycling has taken...
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Fisker establishing specialty electric vehicle engineering division in UK
Fisker establishing specialty electric vehicle engineering division in UK Fisker, creators of the world’s most sustainable electric vehicles and advanced mobility solutions has announced the establishment of The Fisker Magic Works, its UK-based specialty vehicle engineering and development div...
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Enscape plans Mac version and integration with TestFit as its first SDK partnership
Enscape plans Mac version and integration with TestFit as its first SDK partnership Enscape, a leading provider of 3D real-time rendering and virtual reality technology for the global AEC industry, announced this week at the company’s first user event: ENVISION 21, its plans to release Enscape for M...
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Survey reveals the opportunities for Construction Project Cost Management
Survey reveals the opportunities for Construction Project Cost Management Procore Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of construction management software, today released a report in partnership with Dodge Data & Analytics, a leading provider of commercial construction project data. The report...
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UCI and Irvine Smart Cities deploys Velodyne Lidar infrastructure solution
UCI and Irvine Smart Cities deploys Velodyne Lidar infrastructure solution Velodyne Lidar today announced its Intelligent Infrastructure Solution has been selected by the HORIBA Institute for Mobility and Connectivity2 (HIMaC2) in the University of California, Irvine (UCI) Samueli School of Engineer...
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Abu Dhabi launches $3m ASPIRE MBZIRC maritime robotics challenge
Abu Dhabi launches $3m ASPIRE MBZIRC maritime robotics challenge The Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC) will be held in the UAE capital, Abu Dhabi, in June 2023, where tech innovators will participate to seek marine safety and security solutions to take home more than US$3 m...
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Autodesk goes hands free with RealWear assisted reality Construction Management
Autodesk goes hands free with RealWear assisted reality Construction Management RealWear, the world’s leading provider of assisted reality solutions for frontline industrial workers, today announced that Autodesk and RealWear have successfully collaborated to integrate Autodesk Construction Cloud® w...
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Work Wallet wins International recognition for their construction software
Work Wallet wins International recognition for their construction software Derby-based digital innovator Work Wallet has won a prestigious global industry award for its market-leading health and safety management software. It’s modular, mobile-first platform was named Best Construction Health and Sa...
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Thermal Imaging for large animal detection reduces Wildlife Collisions
Thermal Imaging for large animal detection reduces Wildlife Collisions According to the 2020 State Farm annual study, nearly two million collisions between vehicles and large animals occur every year in the United States alone, representing approximately five percent of all reported motor vehicle co...
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Sweden and Germany lead the way in development of electric roads
Sweden and Germany lead the way in development of electric roads Germany and Sweden have made themselves world leaders when it comes to real-world studies on electric roads. On Gotland, the world’s first wireless e-road has been finished. Electric roads are one of the studied technologies in t...
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Point of Rental Elite software expands web-based interface
Point of Rental Elite software expands web-based interface Point of Rental’s multilingual and multi-currency Elite product continues to expand its Web-based interface to allow for writing contracts, building quotes, and managing contracts from a web browser. The biggest new feature, however, is Elit...
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BrightDrop completes its first Electric Light Commercial Vehicle
BrightDrop completes its first Electric Light Commercial Vehicle BrightDrop, the technology start-up decarbonizing last-mile deliveries, today announced the completion of the first production builds of the EV600, a key milestone to deliver its first electric light commercial vehicle (eLCV) to FedEx...
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New all-electric truck designed for the real world announced by Tevva
New all-electric truck designed for the real world announced by Tevva Electric truck pioneer Tevva has today unveiled the new Tevva Truck – a British designed 7.5-tonne electric truck intended for mass production. The global electric truck market was valued at $1.15 billion in 2020 and is expected t...
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New Pipeline Incident Recording System launched by Linewatch
New Pipeline Incident Recording System launched by Linewatch Linewatch, the leading pipeline safety and awareness group, has launched a brand-new Infringement Database service, designed to better protect the gas, oil and chemical pipelines of its 22 Members and those working near them. Developed in-...
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Manufacturing Operations Management and Digital Transformation
Manufacturing Operations Management and Digital Transformation The drive for transformation among industry players is at an all-time high. But at the same time, organizations want lower risk options to digitalize the shop floor. To reduce the number of isolated, inflexible solutions, manufacturers w...
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Nexxiot consolidates its leading position in Cargo TradeTech with MOST acquisition
Nexxiot consolidates its leading position in Cargo TradeTech with MOST acquisition Nexxiot, the emerging TradeTech juggernaut transforming the cargo freight industry around the world through data and logistics digitization advancements, has announced it will acquire a majority interest in the Swedis...
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MOKE restarts production of their classic vehicle in the UK
MOKE restarts production of their classic vehicle in the UK MOKE International has announced that full production of MOKE vehicles has returned to the United Kingdom! All MOKEs will be built at a state-of-the-art facility operated by the British automotive manufacturing services company, Fablink Gro...
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ePropelled showcases new Electric Vehicle Motor Technology at CENEX-LCV
ePropelled showcases new Electric Vehicle Motor Technology at CENEX-LCV ePropelled, the technology company that offers leading-edge electric propulsion systems, announced the release of a ground-breaking new electric vehicle (EV) propulsion system at the Cenex-LCV in Millbrook. This new system incre...
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Point of Rental creates Cloud Engineering Team to focus on scalability
Point of Rental creates Cloud Engineering Team to focus on scalability Point of Rental is expanding its focus on providing scalable, secure, and reliable cloud hosting by creating a cloud engineering division, headed by new Chief Architect of Cloud Engineering Collin Pike. “Business takes place in t...
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The London EV Show goes live in December
The London EV Show goes live in December Valiant Business Media will host one of the world’s most important EV events of 2021. The London EV Show will be conducted as a ‘Hybrid Event’ from 7-9 December 2021 at Olympia London, UK, amalgamating the features of both in-person and virtual events. The Lo...
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B2W Software’s new API streamlines Construction Equipment inspection and repairs
B2W Software’s new API streamlines Construction Equipment inspection and repairs B2W Software, a leading provider of heavy construction management software, has introduced new capabilities within its ONE Platform that enable contractors to identify equipment defects and make repairs faster and...
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Procore launch AI innovation to connect construction and messaging
Procore launch AI innovation to connect construction and messaging Procore Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of construction management software, today announced the next wave of enhancements for a smarter and more connected platform. “For almost 20 years, Procore has been working to connect ev...
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RoboSense LiDAR Sensor 1st in China and 2nd Worldwide
RoboSense LiDAR Sensor 1st in China and 2nd Worldwide RoboSense LiDAR, the leading Smart LiDAR Sensor provider, boasts 10 percent of the market share worldwide, ranking first in China and second globally, according to the “LiDAR for Automotive and Industrial Applications Report 2021” from Yole Dével...
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Logos Technologies unveils tethered MicroKestrel drone for wide-area surveillance
Logos Technologies unveils tethered MicroKestrel drone for wide-area surveillance Logos Technologies LLC, a leader in wide-area motion imagery (WAMI), announced today that it will be unveiling its new MicroKestrel sensor for small, tethered, multirotor-type unmanned aerial systems (UASs) at the upco...
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REE Automotive and Hino win European Product Design Award
REE Automotive and Hino win European Product Design Award REE Automotive LTD, a leader in e-mobility, today announced that REE, together with its partner Hino Motors, are the top winners in the European Product Design Award in the “Design for Society” category. Amos Boaz, lead designer for REE, and...
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Royal Air Force launches trial of Self-Driving Technology with Academy of Robotics
Royal Air Force launches trial of Self-Driving Technology with Academy of Robotics Academy of Robotics and the Royal Air Force announced a new trial deployment of autonomous vehicles on an airbase as part of the RAF’s Astra campaign to deliver next generation Air Force capability. This trial is the...
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Cepton and Belam partner to increase safety at Railway Level Crossings
Cepton and Belam partner to increase safety at Railway Level Crossings Cepton, a Silicon Valley-based innovator of smart lidar solutions has teamed up with Lithuania-based system integrator Belam to improve road user and rail passenger safety by deploying lidar-enabled obstacle detection at railway...
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2J Antennas launch smallest 5GNR, WiFi-6E and GNSS combination 9-in-1 antenna
2J Antennas launch smallest 5GNR, WiFi-6E and GNSS combination 9-in-1 antenna 2J Antennas, a global leader in high performance antenna solutions, introduces the new Stellar Series that is designed for a large suite of devices with a focus on sub 6 GHz, 5G NR, 4G LTE, 3G, 2G, WiFi-6E and GNSS technol...
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Retrofitting legacy CNC systems to safeguard against cyberattacks
Retrofitting legacy CNC systems to safeguard against cyberattacks FANUC America, a leading supplier of CNCs, robotics and ROBOMACHINES, introduces an upgrade solution for legacy CNC machines running on operating systems older than Windows 10. The Panel i Replacement Program retrofits FANUC CNCs with...
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Velodyne Lidar technology enabling TOPODRONE high-precision mapping
Velodyne Lidar technology enabling TOPODRONE high-precision mapping Velodyne Lidar, Inc., today announced a multi-year agreement to provide its lidar sensors to TOPODRONE, which is based in Switzerland and develops affordable, high-precision solutions for aerial surveys. Using Velodyne lidar sensors...
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Renesas R-Car SDK accelerates ADAS Deep Learning for Automated Driving
Renesas R-Car SDK accelerates ADAS Deep Learning for Automated Driving Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today unveiled the R-Car Software Development Kit (SDK), a complete software platform in a single package that enables quicker and easier so...
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Iteris wins Traffic Signal Timing Engineering contract in City of Suffolk, Virginia
Iteris wins Traffic Signal Timing Engineering contract in City of Suffolk, Virginia Iteris, a global leader in smart mobility infrastructure management, today announced that it has been awarded an open-ended annual services on-call contract by the City of Suffolk, Virginia’s Department of Public Wor...
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ElectReon wins UN Approval to integrate Wireless EV Charging technology in vehicles
ElectReon wins UN Approval to integrate Wireless EV Charging technology in vehicles ElectReon, a leading provider of in-road electric vehicle charging technology for shared, commercial and passenger vehicles, has obtained ECE R10 certification—the United Nations and European Economic Community’s Ele...
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Procore acquiring Levelset to simplify Lien Management Workflows for Construction
Procore acquiring Levelset to simplify Lien Management Workflows for Construction Procore Technologies, a leading provider of construction management software, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Levelset. This acquisition will add lien rights management to the Procore platform, enabling Pr...
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Digitalization demands drive Topnet Live GNSS network expansion
Digitalization demands drive Topnet Live GNSS network expansion Topcon Positioning Group announces an expansion of the Topnet Live Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) network of correction solutions to support today’s work environments. The newly expanded global network now has more types of...
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viAct integrates with Autodesk Forge and Autodesk Construction Cloud
viAct integrates with Autodesk Forge and Autodesk Construction Cloud viAct, one of the leading contech start-ups in Asia today announced its integration with Autodesk Forge® and Autodesk Construction Cloud ®. The integration with Autodesk Forge, a cloud-based developer platform, enables viAct to bui...
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AGM selects Velodyne Lidar Alpha Prime Sensor for Mobile Scanning System
AGM selects Velodyne Lidar Alpha Prime Sensor for Mobile Scanning System Velodyne Lidar today announced AGM Systems LLC has deployed the Alpha Prime lidar sensor on the AGM-MS5.Prime, AGM’s latest high-performance mobile scanning solution. The AGM system’s advanced 3D data capture capabilities open...
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Bentley Systems announces 2021 Going Digital Awards in Infrastructure Finalists
Bentley Systems announces 2021 Going Digital Awards in Infrastructure Finalists Bentley Systems, the infrastructure engineering software company, today announced the finalists for the 2021 Going Digital Awards in Infrastructure. The annual awards program honours the extraordinary work of Bentley sof...
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MaaS subscriber revenue set to explode by 900 percent by 2027
MaaS subscriber revenue set to explode by 900 percent by 2027 A new study by Juniper Research has found that MaaS (Mobility-as-a-Service) subscribers will generate $53 billion in revenue for MaaS platform providers by 2027; rising from $5.3 billion in 2021. MaaS is the provision of multimodal end-to...
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Hyundai puts Factory Safety Service Robot to work to support Site Safety
Hyundai puts Factory Safety Service Robot to work to support Site Safety Hyundai Motor Group has introduced a Factory Safety Service Robot for industrial site safety, and announced its pilot operation at Kia’s plant in South Korea. The Robot is based on Boston Dynamic’s quadruped robot, Spot, with...
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All electric F150 Lightning Truck starts pre-production
All electric F150 Lightning Truck starts pre-production As the first pre-production F-150 Lightning trucks roll out of Ford’s new Rouge Electric Vehicle Center and demand soars for the all-electric truck, Ford said it will increase investment and add jobs to boost production. Ford is investing an ad...
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Yunex Traffic wins Clean Air Zone contract in Newcastle
Yunex Traffic wins Clean Air Zone contract in Newcastle Yunex Traffic, the new name for Siemens Mobility’s Intelligent Traffic systems business, has been awarded a contract to design and install a Clean Air Zone (CAZ) automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) camera monitoring and enforcement soluti...
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Velodyne Lidar calls for ADAS solutions to improve Pedestrian Safety
Velodyne Lidar calls for ADAS solutions to improve Pedestrian Safety Velodyne Lidar has announced a white paper, written by Velodyne experts and published by SAE International, that calls for independent performance testing of driver assistance systems to be expanded to include dark, night-time scen...
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AlphaStruxure and The Mobility House accelerate US Fleet Electrification
AlphaStruxure and The Mobility House accelerate US Fleet Electrification AlphaStruxure and The Mobility House announced today a strategic partnership to streamline the development of electric fleets with clean energy microgrids plus intelligent charging systems. With North America projected to see n...
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Xylem Smart Sewer technology wins EPA consent
Xylem Smart Sewer technology wins EPA consent Global water technology company, Xylem, is delivering the advanced “smart sewer” system enabling the City of South Bend, Indiana, to exceed the requirements of a wastewater consent decree for 60% less capital investment (CapEx) than originally planned. T...
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Virtual Power Plants and Smart Energy Storage projects take off in Chile
Virtual Power Plants and Smart Energy Storage projects take off in Chile Stem, a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI)-driven energy storage services, and Copec, one of the largest energy companies in Central and South America, today announced the development of South America’s first virtual...
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Unicontrol addresses demand for 3D machine control with Wheel Loader solution
Unicontrol addresses demand for 3D machine control with Wheel Loader solution Yet another demand is met for the construction industry, with precise and efficient excavation work. Unicontrol now has a solution ready that makes it much easier to carry out grading using a loader. Machine operators can...
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Geotab helps improve street-level transportation
Geotab helps improve street-level transportation Geotab, a global leader in IoT and connected transportation, today announced that its new Geotab Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) line of business has launched a transportation analytics platform capable of providing governments with actionabl...
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NEXT Coalition calls for innovations to tackle Digital Twins
NEXT Coalition calls for innovations to tackle Digital Twins One year after the nation’s leading construction and infrastructure companies united to establish the NEXT Coalition to promote and share industry best practices, the Coalition has completed its “Construction Safety Challenge” and is again...
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Heavy Equipment Platform eqhq.com continues its rapid growth
Heavy Equipment Platform eqhq.com continues its rapid growth eqhq.com, an equiptech company is set to transform the $450 billion heavy equipment industry as it is continuing its rapid growth and expansion with the closing of its initial round of financing. The AI powered platform is reinventing the...
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Caterpillar announces the Guardhat™ Connected Worker system
Caterpillar announces the Guardhat™ Connected Worker system Expanding the Cat® MineStar™ Detect portfolio, Caterpillar is set to launch Connected Worker, a Guardhat™ developed safety and productivity solution for surface mining operations, at MINExpo 2021 in Las Vegas. The Conne...
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RealWear and Zoom to bring hands-free Connectivity for Frontline Workers
RealWear and Zoom to bring hands-free Connectivity for Frontline Workers RealWear today announced that it is working with Zoom to expand the use of its RealWear assisted reality headset devices to frontline workers globally at ExxonMobil. Field workers will use RealWear devices that integrate with Z...
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UK National Highways sets out digital revolution vision
UK National Highways sets out digital revolution vision A virtual twin of the road network that can predict the time and location of potholes and other maintenance issues is just one of the innovations poised to transform National Highways’ future operations. Other initiatives that could lead the ch...
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Trimble launches Trimble Construction One™ Management Platform
Trimble launches Trimble Construction One™ Management Platform Today at the Collaborate Conference, Trimble introduced Trimble Construction One™, a connected, cloud-based construction management platform that drives speed, efficiency and accuracy at each phase of the construction proje...
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wilko invests in StreetDrone for autonomous deliveries
wilko invests in StreetDrone for autonomous deliveries UK High street retailer wilko has today announced a major investment in the UK’s leading autonomous delivery company, StreetDrone. The £3 million investment will give the retailer a significant interest in the company, putting it at the forefron...
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Creating sustainable zero-impact highways
Creating sustainable zero-impact highways Creating a highway with zero deaths, pollution, carbon and environmental impact is certainly a bold mission, but it’s one that UK-based Innovia Technology and The Ray aim to achieve. Together, they have developed a proving ground on Interstate 85 in the US s...
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Quantron premiers their electric 12-metre bus
Quantron premiers their electric 12-metre bus E-mobility specialist Quantron AG is launching its own QUANTRON vehicle, the electric QUANTRON 12 m low-floor bus, at the end of this year. The city bus will be offered in two versions: In the BEV variant, the vehicle can be ordered as early as the end o...
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Topcon technology improves the road between Burkina Faso and its neighbours
Topcon technology improves the road between Burkina Faso and its neighbours Tansoba Boulevard is the busiest road in Ouagadougou, the capital city of West African nation Burkina Faso. The south-eastern bypass is a key interconnection corridor, not only connecting the city with the rest of the landlo...
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Effidence and Manitou integrate Datalogic security into their robotic solutions
Effidence and Manitou integrate Datalogic security into their robotic solutions Effidence, a pioneer in collaborative mobile robots, and Manitou Group, world reference in handling, lifting and earthmoving, have adopted the security and identification products of the leader Datalogic, for their palle...
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TRL to lead Digital Road for Evolving Connected and Automated Driving programme
TRL to lead Digital Road for Evolving Connected and Automated Driving programme TRL are celebrating a significant new contract win having been appointed Project Management Lead on the Digital Road for Evolving Connected and Automated Driving (DiREC) project. A two-year programme that forms part of t...
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Josef Umdasch Research Prize looking for solutions that contribute to digitalization
Josef Umdasch Research Prize looking for solutions that contribute to digitalization The countdown has started. Ideas for innovative solutions that make a significant contribution to digitalization in shell construction can be submitted for the Josef Umdasch Research Prize until 7 November 2021. The...
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Komatsu working on a concept autonomous water truck
Komatsu working on a concept autonomous water truck Komatsu has been trialling an autonomous water truck, based on its proven Autonomous Haulage System (AHS). In development at the moment, the vehicle is planned to be commercially availability in 2022 The technology on the concept HD785-7 truck auto...
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Doosan Transparent Bucket technology wins two Matexpo Awards
Doosan Transparent Bucket technology wins two Matexpo Awards The industry’s first wheel loader ‘Transparent Bucket’ system from Doosan Infracore Europe has won two of the major awards at the international Matexpo Exhibition held at the Kortrijk Xpo convention centre in Kortrijk in Belgium from 8-12...
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Digitalisation and the great digital overhaul
Digitalisation and the great digital overhaul Digitalisation has transformed every sector in recent years. The implementation of technologies like artificial intelligence and automation have streamlined processes, improved data accuracy, and allowed businesses in every industry to become more effici...
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Sensata Technologies debuts new Battery Management Systems
Sensata Technologies debuts new Battery Management Systems Sensata Technologies, announced it will debut new Battery Management Systems at the upcoming Battery Show North America in Novi, Michigan from September 14th to 16th in booth #2617. In addition, Sensata will highlight its sensing and control...
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Converge launch wireless V2 Signal Sensors to maximise physical site data collection
Converge launch wireless V2 Signal Sensors to maximise physical site data collection Converge present Signal Sensor v2, an upgraded sensor with the innovative capability to measure a vast range of physical data types on the construction site, all while operating within a wireless embedded system. Si...
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