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Contractors have enormous responsibilities in managing construction jobs, including buying, renting, maintaining and operating heavy equipment. Whether youre renting or buying construction equipment, you want to know its helping you achieve higher productivity, not lowering it. Many contractors are looking for ways to get the most out of their equipment by maximizing operating efficiency, reducing downtime and monitoring machine health. In tough, competitive markets, any limitations or obstacles to peak performance can impact your bottom line. By implementing the right processes and leveraging machine technology and data, you can be sure to maximize your heavy equipment production rates and increase the profitability of each job as much as possible. Read the following references and discuss the listed questions in your post.

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Increasing productivity of construction equipment by analytics

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https://camso.co/en/article/product-insight/technology-trends-that-will-impact-construction-equipment-in-the-future
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Please discuss what are the potential factors that could affect the productivity of the construction heavy equipment on the jobsite.
Please discuss what are the current technology that are available to help increase the construction equipment productivity, and describe how it can help. Please feel free to list some areas that you feel that could be improved through technology but have not been implemented yet.

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Please discuss what are the potential factors that could affect the productivity of the construction heavy equipment on the jobsite.

Some potential factors that could affect the productivity of heavy construction equipment is the neglect of appropriate maintenance by a certified vendor/workshop/ technician. Another factor that can impact productivity is choosing the wrong equipment for the jobsite e.g. using a bulldozer to remove asphalt for a road project. Additionally, a lack of work experience with heavy equipment can lead to a decrease in productivity as there is more room for errors due to unfamiliarity with the equipment.

Please discuss what are the current technologies that are available to help increase the construction equipment productivity, and describe how it can help. Please feel free to list some areas that you feel that could be improved through technology but have not been implemented yet.

Utilizing analytics is one current technology that is being used to help increase productivity. Identifying actual fuel usage can help predict when maintenance will be necessary therefore the pm can plan to have a replacement equipment ready. Another advantage of analytics is being able to identify operator efficiency as the data shows work times equipment usage.

Other technologies that are being used to enhance construction equipment productivity are telematics, integrated grade control systems, payload weighing and drones. Telematics system can provide machine diagnostics alerts that help prevent downtime, theft, and misuse ( Conexpo ConAgg, para 6). Integrated grade control systems on the other hand provide barrier fee, advanced three-dimensional grade control. Payload weighing provided real time updates on accurate load measurements eliminating time loss traveling to weighing stations. Lastly, the advancement of drones is concerning the construction industry and increases accurate, exceptionally detailed topography of job sites.

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