3D or nothing

作者：丹尼尔·米拉姆（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。

W. Gardner，LLC总裁兼3D Concrete Solutions的执行合伙人Elliot Jones具有不同的视角，“我将其视为训练轮。这使我们陷入困境。我的控制能力好多了。”

杰克逊维尔，佛罗里达州建筑市场有机会，琼斯通过建立一家混凝土公司3D混凝土解决方案利用了优势。他的土方工程公司W. Gardner，LLC与当地混凝土承包商无用的时间遇到​​了困难，这揭示了市场上的差距。

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。

A new level of responsiveness, simplicity and precision

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president of project management at W. Gardner, LLC, visited the Power Curbers manufacturing facility to learn more about the slipform machines. Jones revealed,“这次访问索尔兹伯里的电力库司机达成了交易”。Grimes同意，“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 concrete slipform machine, the team at 3D Concrete Solutions, selected the徕卡图标机控制系统对于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

One of the primary reasons Jones insisted upon starting with 3D controls was avoiding stringline limitations. He stated,“您至少要在一份小工作中节省一天，为期半天半，要分解或从2天或更长时间开始，以便更大的工作。您只有这么多线性脚的销钉，而您必须越过它们。那是你的瓶颈。”

However, with stringless controls, Jones pointed out,“您的瓶颈并不是多少销，就在这里，整个站点都在这里，我们可以继续跨越那些坏男孩，直到混凝土植物使我们关闭。bob apple现在没有限制。”

Grimes enforced,“it saves costs with the survey and guys putting out stringline and pins. We can roll in there, localize everything in an hour or two, and we are off and running. We’ve done as much as 4,000 linear feet or more, and that’s only because we ran out of mud.”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.

Easy to use and easy to adopt 3D machine control solution to your curb machine

Jones reported that“它比弦线更好。弦线在工作现场被人操纵。有人为错误的空间。如果您遵循该模型，则完全适合工程师的计划。”

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 observed that their slipform crew“adapted to stringless controls really well, they jumped right in and have embraced it.”