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How Digital Technology is Empowering Machine Operators
“When we drive past other sites and see wooden posts sticking out the ground it looks archaic. We don’t use profiles anymore.” Rob Hacker, Senior Engineer, Conlon.
It’s a common gripe for engineering surveyors, site foremen - or ‘gangers’ - and, ultimately, machine operators: hours are spent inserting precision profile boards for drainage, pipelines or road construction, only for a machine to track over them. This painstaking work needs to be repeated, often requiring an engineering surveyor to return to site.
It holds up work, takes time and costs money.
For Rob this problem is a thing of the past. “I used to frequently spend hours in the car a day, driving between jobs, then getting a call from a contract manager screaming at me to return to a site to profile it again because a dumper had destroyed the batons.
“不再 - 我们所做的一切都是现在控制的GPS，好处是巨大的。”
Operating an excavator is a skilled job. The beauty of applying digital technology to the heavy construction industry - and specifically for machine operators -is that it builds on driver skills to improve efficiency.
“I have trained nearly 30 drivers on Leica’s kit and every single one of them has got it pretty quickly,” says Rob. “Then they start asking what else it can do - they’re pretty impressed!”
这个数字设备允许工头和dri的地点vers to view the same information at the same time.
驾驶员在驾驶室中有一个屏幕，而工头则使用轻巧的手持板。工程测量师构建了模型，该技术使用GPS展示成绩，这意味着驾驶员可以在驾驶室中的屏幕上看到所需的高度，宽度和深度，从而使它们能够以更高的速度和准确性工作。
一名工头手持Lica平板电脑，可以沿着正在建造的道路上行走，并按下按钮，看看在任何给定的点需要切或填充多少地球。It means the foreman can stand next to the machine operator and both can check their screens and see the same data, agreeing the exact depth the machine needs to go to.
The principle is the same as using a traveller, but the speed and accuracy is enhanced. It means the educated guess work needed when using profile boards and travellers is a distant memory.
“The work is definitely more accurate since using GPS.很难与旅行者平整道路 - 您必须用两块水平的木材对准它，如果您向上或向上变化，” Rob说。“这是一项技能，除非您真的在使用旅行者方面经验丰富，否则您将永远损害准确性。”
If estimators advise that a road is 900ml deep, for example, and that a certain amount of stone is therefore required, there is always a risk that a driver will dig too deep if relying on a traveller. With GPS, the depth is set.
The benefits are multiple. When digging footings, drivers no longer have to adhere to spray lines.驾驶室屏幕上的沟渠线准确地显示了机器需要挖掘的位置。
Health and safety is also improved, eliminating the need for a worker to stand in the road spraying markings, potentially in the way of a machine.
“Excavator drivers use a setting on their Leica panels called a ‘void zone’, says Rob. “As soon as the bucket goes out of the trench lines it alerts you, meaning you maintain accuracy.And it’s a lot easier than walking along a string line and spraying it - that’s hard!”
Using digital technology adds peace of mind. Engineering surveyors create models for the roads under construction and can make any necessary offsets from the base station in the office. The data is uploaded onto the kit of the ganger and the driver, removing the need for the engineering surveyor to visit the site.
快速而精确。
Transparency of information across the project team is key too, because everyone has access to the same data. “You no longer have different groups referring to different sets of drawings,” says Rob. “If gangers and drivers can see what they’re working towards rather than just being told, it makes it far easier to understand.
“人们拥有的知识越多，他们工作就越好。”
It is one of many examples of the way in which heavy construction is integrating digital working in an intuitive way.
该套件是考虑到最终用户的设计，可以解决常见的疼痛点并提高效率。培训通常是在工作上进行的，例如，从如何打开平板电脑以及如何导航菜单到如何创建表面型号的所有内容。
“I have found that after as little as a week people get the hang of it and they want more,”says Rob. “They can quickly see the difference it makes, and most are keen to know how else the technology can help them to do their job.”
At Conlon, a dedicated training centre is currently being created which will feature two simulators to train drivers on using the kit. “On the job training works but having that additional time and space to talk people through the kit without being on a busy site will make it even easier. The operators can ‘virtually’ drive around the site and get a real feel for it before applying it for real.”
Technology is empowering machine operators, allowing them to concentrate on their core skills and deliver an even higher standard of work, faster and more accurately.
As Rob says, “People knocking pins out, losing lines, tracking over lines, having to wait around, contract managers getting stressed out - this kit overcomes a lot of that inefficiency and frustration.
“数字改变了我们的工作方式。”
