3D或什么都没有

作者：Daniel Milam,Power Curbers

本季节，用于混凝土滑移设备的3D或无绳控制系统变得越来越受欢迎。劳动力短缺，竞争性竞标和安排灵活性是公司选择无绳子的最常见原因。

Elliot Jones, president at W. Gardner, LLC and managing partner of 3D Concrete Solutions, has a different perspective,“I looked at it as training wheels. It kind of keeps us in the rails. I feel a lot better with having this control.”

An opportunity arose in the Jacksonville, Florida construction market, and Jones took advantage by establishing a concrete company, 3D Concrete Solutions. His earthwork company, W. Gardner, LLC had difficulty with local concrete contractors running out of time, which revealed a gap in the market.

与琼斯没有事先形成或打滑的经验，与他的地球业务有所不同，这对琼斯来说是一个巨大的举动。从一开始，琼斯希望这家混凝土公司是运行无绳索机器的地区中的第一个，以不同。

新的响应能力，简单性和精度

Jones worked with machine control on earthmoving equipment for the past ten years and had seen operators successfully trained on dozers or motor graders using 3D systems. He was confident that a slipform operator could be trained similarly and felt good about plunging into stringless slipforming, describing it as a “no-brainer”.

琼斯和生锈的格兰姆斯,副主持nt of project management at W. Gardner, LLC, visited the Power Curbers manufacturing facility to learn more about the slipform machines. Jones revealed,“that visit to Power Curbers in Salisbury sealed the deal”. Grimes agreed,“我强烈建议任何有兴趣购买滑板机有兴趣的人参加Power Curbers的植物，因为那令人印象深刻。”

To complement their new5700-D混凝土滑动机, the team at 3D Concrete Solutions, selected theLeica iCON machine control system对于3D混凝土铺路，由于其精确度，它在W. Gardner，LLC拥有的Earthmoving设备上提供了。

Avoid stringlines with 3D machine control solution for curb and gutter jobs

琼斯从3D控件开始时坚持认为避免弦线限制的主要原因之一。他说，“you are saving at least a day on a small job, a half-day to set up and a half-day to break down or anywhere from 2 days or more for a larger job. You only have so many linear feet of pins, and you have to leapfrog them. That is your bottleneck.”

However, with stringless controls, Jones pointed out,“your bottleneck isn’t how many pins, it becomes, control is here, total stations are here, we can keep leapfrogging those bad boys until the concrete plant shuts us down. There are no limits now.”

Grimes enforced,“这可以节省调查，并推出弦线和销钉。我们可以在那里滚动，在一两个小时内将所有内容定位，然后我们正在运行。我们完成了多达4,000英尺或更多的线性英尺，这仅仅是因为我们用完了泥土。”Not only is the Leica 3D machine control system for concrete paving seeing time and money savings, but their quality is outstanding. They’ve verified vertical tolerances as small as 0.02.

易于使用且易于采用3D机控制解决方案

Jones reported that“这是比stringline更好。stringline变得manipulated by people on the job site. There is room for human error. If you follow the model, it is perfectly to the engineer’s plan.”

After getting settled in with the machine, Jones expressed that the 5700-D concrete slipform machine with machine control solution from Leica Geosystem has“been good, we love it. The guys in the field love it. It works great.”Grimes观察到他们的滑动船员“非常适合无绳索控件，他们就跳进去接受了它。”