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Caterpillar unveils largest track loader - The powerful Cat 973
A track loader is the one machine that can do it all – clear, load, dig, carry, fill, and more – even in tough or slick ground conditions. The new Cat® 973 track loader combines unmatched versatility with up to 10 per cent better fuel efficiency, more productivity, cab improvements, and optional Payload technology. The 275 hp (205 kW) crawler loader has an operating weight of 65,901 lb (29,892 kg) and replaces the 973K worldwide. It joins the 953 (160 hp/119 kW) and 963 (202 hp/151 kW) in the Cat track loader line.
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Caterpillar unveils largest track loader - The powerful Cat 973
New 973 rounds out updated CAT® track loader lineup
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CRUSH, SCREEN, EXCEL
The crushing and screening equipment market — which is driven by aggregate and construction industries, road projects, and railway lines — is believed to grow at a faster pace.
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Revolutionising construction
Automation in construction equipment has the potential to improve productivity, safety, and efficiency, leading to significant advancements in construction practices.
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Progressive Outlook of the Indian CE Industry
Alternative fuels will be a fair play for the future of the CE industry as the Government is also pushing the same for making India self-reliant.
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Caterpillar’s digital-enabled solutions at bauma
Caterpillar exhibit featured a technology ecosystem to help customers get the most from their machines.
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Caterpillar launches more powerful excavator
Equipped with a more powerful engine, wider track and 7.5-tonne counterweight, Caterpillar says its new 340 hydraulic excavator delivers more power, stability and productivity for earthmoving operations.
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Caterpillar launches more powerful excavator
The new 340 hydraulic excavator delivers more power, stability and productivity
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The importance of construction automation has grown rapidly
Himanshu Sharma, Head – Marketing & Corporate Communication, B&R Industrial Automation, speaks on the emerging technology trends in earthmoving equipment.
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On track: double-digit growth
Distribution, digitisation and electrification are expected to be the key drivers of the earthmoving equipment industry in the coming years.
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Modular mini controller for mobile machines
ifm offers ecomatmobile Basic consisting of the components Basic Relay, Basic Controller and Basic Display that are adapted to each other.
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Automation: Need of the Hour
The world is entering an age of robotics, and the construction industry could be the next.
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: ifm modular mini controller
In many small and compact mobile applications, the requirements for control tasks are increasing.
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Modular mini controller for mobile machines
Cost-optimised, modular mini controllers for mobile use are in demand.
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CE companies are making strides toward sustainability
Customer centricity being the fulcrum, Doosan Bobcat India introduced B900 CEV stage IV backhoe loaders for the Indian market in 2021.
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Trimble, Qualcomm partner on mapping
Trimble RTX GNSS technology is now available for Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and Snapdragon 888 Mobile Platforms.
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Why CE industry needs automation
The world is entering an age of robotics. Industrial robots have worked in the manufacturing sector for decades, and now they appear in most industries. Construction could be the next industry.
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Hatgine of Ifm: Covid-19 has expedited transition to automated systems
Amit Hatgine, Manager-System Business, Ifm electronic, on automation and control solutions offered by the company for construction equipment.
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Schaeffler shows sustainable mobility
Schaeffler demonstrates at the IAA Mobility (Hall B3, A80) how sustainable mobility can be designed
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How automation is changing construction industry
The construction sector is huge, but famously stubborn in its adoption of new technology. That is changing as advances in construction automation continue apace… including the development of construction robotics solutions.
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Covid-19 has expedited the transition from manual processes to automated systems”
The demands on controllers and sensors used in construction machines, municipal vehicles, agricultural and forestry machinery, port facilities and cranes are extremely high. Units and machines are permanently exposed to harsh environments like heat, cold, moisture, mud, dust, shocks and vibrations and often even thunder and lightning.
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Crushing it!
With an increase in mining activities and infrastructure development in India, the demand for crushing and screening equipment will also rise.
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MOBILE 3D SMART CAMERA
This 3D smart camera from ifm electronic designed for mobile applications is the first 3D sensor system with integrated additional 2D camera.
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Compact controller
B&R's latest addition to its Compact-S series is a compact controller with an integrated switch. With an integrated switch, it enables daisy-chain cabling between network stations.
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Modular mini controller for mobile machines
In many small and compact mobile applications, the requirements on control tasks are increasing. Cost-optimised, modular mini controllers for mobile use are in demand. Here, ifm offers ecomatmobile Basic consisting of the components BasicRelay, BasicController and BasicDisplay that are adapted to each other.
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3D Smart Camera
The new 3D smart camera from ifm electronic designed for mobile applications is the first 3D sensor system with integrated additional 2D camera. The overlay function allows to show obstacles and display warnings, symbols and even complex drawings in real time.
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Relay system FOR mobile applications
In many small and compact mobile applications, the requirements on control tasks are increasing. Cost-optimised, modular mini controllers for mobile use are in demand.
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JCB ecoMAX engine
In 2011, JCB India inaugurated a world-class engine manufacturing facility in Delhi-NCR which is also the world's largest backhoe plant. In over six years, JCB has manufactured over 1,50,000 ecoMAX engines and machines fitted with these engines have been exported to over 90 countries.
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Technology to drive INFRA growth
Infrastructure 2.0 is a movement to address issues with today's core network infrastructure in a customer's construction site to address the dynamic, automated nature of operation models like cloud computing, data center visualisation, IoT and usage of drones to keep site operations safe, secure, highly productive and efficiently managed.
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We are working on futuristic solutions using IoT, AI, AR and VR
We build outcome impacting solutions integrating Internet of things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) to enhance customer experience and improve organisational performance.
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ABB opens new factory in Nashik
ABB India inaugurated a new factory for the production of power distribution products in Nashik. The facility was inaugurated by Sanjeev Sharma, Managing Director of ABB in India in the presence of other dignitaries and customers from various sectors.
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The Power of Hydraulics
Hydraulic power is generated through a combination of oil flow and pressure. Oil flow and pressure is created from a hydraulic pump and transmitted through hoses or tubes, via control valves, to the hydraulic motor or cylinder that will do the work.
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Blasters go hydraulic
Australian Pump Industries? range of heavy-duty hydraulic drive high-pressure cleaners with pressures up to 500 bar (7,300 psi), have played a vital role in the drilling industry.
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Choosing the Right Hydraulic Fluids
When it comes to hydraulic fluids, the operating practices of yesterday are long gone. Today the pressure is on hydraulic systems. Hydraulic systems are expected to deliver optimum performance while operating under higher pressures, higher temperatures and tougher operating conditions
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Hydraulic Motors & Valves
Motors and control valves are essential components of any hydraulically operated machine as they are instrumental in creating the required motion. To explain it simply through an analogy with the human body, motors can be compared to our limbs and control valves to our brain.
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Engines of Future
Latest environmental norms, best fuel efficiency and low OPEX costs, dictate developments of new generation engines. Latest environmental norms, best fuel efficiency and low OPEX costs, dictate developments of new generation engines.
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The new QAX range design is dedicated to mobile prime power applications.
Atlas Copco will be entering the on-site portable generator market in India for the first time, in line with our global range, with the unique selling proposition of ?Predictable Power.? Better still, it is to be manufactured in India, says Vinay Jain, Business Line Manager APE, Atlas Copco Construction Technique. Excerpts from the interview.
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We enjoy a monopoly in some segments because of the matchless attributes we offer.
Moba has rich expertise in mobile automation backed up by robust electronics, sensors with high quality, and strong technical application knowledge which has enabled Moba to build solutions which are effective, reliable and easy to operate. Such systems demand the withstanding the highest degree of vibration, exposure to dust, water and heat