Caterpillar has up to date its Cat hydraulic excavator line as a part of its annual product replace (APU) program.
Designed to enhance machine effectivity and get operators rapidly to work, the enhancements embody Cat Grade applied sciences, a brand new person interface (UI) for fast navigation and a complicated payload possibility for Cat observe excavators.
These updates apply to Cat small, medium, and huge excavators, plus materials handlers, wheeled excavators, and forestry and specialty machines.
With 2025 mannequin builds, Cat Grade with Superior 2D options and features at the moment are built-in into customary Cat Grade with 2D.
In comparison with conventional grading strategies, Cat 2D expertise empowers operators to work extra effectively in a variety of purposes by delivering real-time steerage for correct vertical and horizontal management. It helps to make sure that cuts and fills are made to precise specs, with out undercutting or overcutting, and might remove the necessity for floor stakes in most purposes.
“Our 2D grading expertise supplies simple changes to focus on depth and slope utilizing joystick instructions, the touchscreen interface, or a jog dial. It shows goal grade with visible steerage plus peak and depth. To assist guarantee lengthy life, the built-in elements are shielded from injury, and 2D works with a number of bucket sorts, together with digging, cleansing, grading and tilting,” says Jason Ho, senior world product advisor, excavation for Caterpillar.
For purchasers grading complicated designs, Grade with 3D expertise is now a factory-installed possibility that may be ordered for observe and wheeled excavators. This new possibility consists of all of the {hardware} required for the 3D system, put in and examined from the manufacturing facility. It supplies a better improve path for purchasers who wish to add Cat Grade with 3D after preliminary buy.
Cat Payload for excavators and materials handlers delivers exact bucket load info with on-the-go weighing to assist forestall overloading or underloading. From reordering work device lists to creating new work device combos, the show’s new UI begins rapidly and allows operators to simply arrange machines and entry info in order that they get to work directly. Operators hold observe of the quantity of fabric moved and might cut up duties between truck loading in Weigh Mode and transferring materials across the web site in Stockpile Mode. The power to enter couplers and attachments into the system makes establishing work device combos extremely environment friendly by considerably lowering calibration time.
“Whereas Cat Payload helps operators to precisely hit load targets and keep away from underloading, overloading or misloading supplies clients with observe excavators can improve the system to Superior Payload for expanded capabilities comparable to customized tags, day by day totals and digital ticketing,” provides Ho. “When mixed with VisionLink, Superior Payload allows clients to analyse job websites and particular person belongings for distant administration of manufacturing targets and key metrics.”
Photographs courtesy of Caterpillar
