SECTOR REPORT Ӏ TECHNOLOGY
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manufacturer REMdevice has, from this month (Feb 2023), digitised all its technical data and manuals and made them available on smartphone or tablet. Inside each delivered order will be a label with a QR code. Once the new owner has scanned it with their smartphone they will have direct access to the technical documentation – and have it available in more than ten languages. It is more convenient than paper and also saves trees. Mammoet, despite specialising in the heaviest of heavy lifts, is actively on the path to carbon- neutrality. Big data is key to it. Thousands of sensors, in hundreds of their vehicles and machines, are analysed by sophisticated software to show where the carbon savings can most effectively be made –
see Erica Gray, Mammoet’s head of global sustainability, talking with Cranes Today about this at
http://bit.ly/3IpPoa9. But Mammoet is doing
more. Paul van Gelder, CEO of Mammoet, sees the big picture. “Digitisation in the field isn’t just about keeping the business going in times of travel restrictions: it has the power to transform work for the better,” he says. “In the future customers will benefit by getting better quality data from Mammoet. For example, via the LIDAR scanning of routes or through analysis of exactly when and how cranes are used we can provide our customers with services in the most efficient and optimal ways.” LIDAR stands for ‘Laser Imaging, Detection and Ranging’ and is, in effect, a form of aerial
A1A’s Rigging
Designer is just one of the new stand- alone lift planning tools in its Product Suite
radar-cum-photography that ‘sees’ through tree and leaf cover to give accurate digital images of the ground beneath. It is one more technology that has moved from the science lab to everyday and affordable use.
Another such technology is
the drones that can carry the surveying equipment. Companies such as Lausanne,
Switzerland based Pix4D offer such services for surveying and mapping, for example, otherwise inaccessible roof structures ahead of a planned constriction lift.
LIFT PLANNING Mammoet’s Mammoet’s latest development in the digital field is Move 3D – software that performs virtual planning of a lift or move, ahead of time.
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