Current trend: Digitalisation in equipment

06 May 2019 Editorial Team

Customers are increasingly demanding connected equipment and want to tap the benefits of IT to better operate and monitor their equipment, shares C R Jyothiraj, General Manager, Concrete Equipment Business Unit, Sany India. Sany offers state-of-the-art technology that empowers customers by giving them complete control over their equipment fleet.

“Digitalisation in equipment across all categories (concrete batching plants, concrete pumps, concrete transit mixers and concrete self-loading mixers) is a current trend in demand,” observes VG Sakthikumar, Managing Director, Schwing Stetter India Pvt Ltd, Convenor for Membership Committee, ICEMA, and Chairman of the Mechanisation Committee, Builders Association of India. Schwing’s digitalisation innovations include Schwing Infra IoT In, IoT ready and IoT abled.

At Universal Construction Machinery, a conscious attempt to educate customers on using technology to control multiple machines remotely has paid off, according to Ranjit More, Managing Director, Universal Construction Machinery. “Customers are receptive to our range of smart machines with inbuilt SCADA systems that can be managed remotely by means of laptops or smartphones.”

- CHARU BAHRI

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