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A Checklist for Evaluating Cab Design of Construction Equipment
The objective of this article is to introduce a one-page checklist for evaluating cab design of construction equipment. The cab design evaluation checklist was developed, pilot-tested, and used to measure several characteristics of cab design see Table I. The checklist was based on a literature review and was then discussed...
Tags: Construction, construction equipment
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Volvo Construction Equipment Connects With Customers Through Click Commerce
Volvo Construction Equipment Volvo CE is a leading manufacturer of construction equipment and has a broad base of dealerships that sell, maintain and rent more than 100 equipment models. Volvo CE wanted to create a Web site that would provide robust functionality for both dealerships and end-users, with tools necessary...
Tags: Construction, Accenture Ltd., Volvo, construction equipment, dealership, pricing strategy, team, Web site, tool, Web
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Volvo Construction Equipment: Building Sales Success
Volvo Construction Equipment Volvo CE develops, manufactures and markets equipment for construction-related industries, including a range of wheel loaders, hydraulic excavators, articulated haulers, motor graders and compact equipment. Ensuring that the sales force has the information it needs on the products and the skills required to sell is George Lilly's...
Tags: Sales strategy, Construction, Sales force management, Volvo, construction equipment, Excavator, sales, sales force, training, job, industry
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Volvo Construction Equipment: Improves Lead-Generation 700% With WebTrends
To manage what is one of the Volvo Group's largest e-business initiatives, and to effectively enhance its web site to better meet its lead-generation business objectives, Volvo CE spearheaded the effort to start leveraging web analytics to achieve better acquisition and conversion results. Volvo CE turned to WebTrends Insight Network...
Tags: Financial Planning, Marketing research, NetIQ Corp., Volvo, WebTrends Corp., Web analytics, analytics, construction equipment, ROI, e-business, acquisition, Web, Web site, network
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Data Warehousing For Construction Equipment Management
Equipment logistics, maintenance, and repair are important aspects of construction equipment management. A well-managed equipment fleet helps reduce downtime, as well as total maintenance and repair costs. With quickly growing fleets of equipment, large contractors tend to divert the maintenance and repair of equipment from equipment managers to project managers....
Tags: Construction, Tools & Techniques, construction equipment, decision-making, decision support system, logistics, data warehouse, job
White papers 2006-07-28
Labor Unrest And The Quality Of Production: Evidence From The Construction Equipment Resale Market
This paper examines the construction equipment resale market to assess whether equipment produced by the world's largest manufacturer of construction machinery, Caterpillar, experienced lower product quality in facilities that underwent contract disputes during the 1990's. Analysis of auction data reveals that resale market participants significantly discounted machines produced in these...
Tags: Construction, construction equipment, resale, unrest, appraisal, contract dispute, analysis
White papers 2006-04-01
Dynamic 3D Visualization Of Articulated Construction Equipment
Dynamic three-dimensional 3D animation can be of significant value in improving the verification validation, and communication of Discrete-Event Simulation DES models of construction operations, which in turn can make the models more credible and thus useful in operations planning and decision making. This paper presents research that led to the...
Tags: Construction, University of Michigan, construction equipment, 3D, DES, animation, decision-making, software
White papers 2005-10-01
Practical 3D Animation of Multiply Articulated Construction Equipment
This paper presents research that led to the design and implementation of practical 3D animation methods to visualize multiply-articulated construction equipment in 3D animations of discrete-event construction process models. Using principles of forward and inverse kinematics, the paper presents the design and the implementation of generic pieces of multiply-articulated virtual...
Tags: Construction, construction equipment, 3D, software
White papers 2004-11-11
Mixed Reality Technology Applications In Construction Equipment Operator Training
This paper provides information on Mixed Reality MR, and more specifically Augmented Reality AR and their potential applications in heavy construction equipment and operator training. Mixed Reality involves the use of special display and tracking technologies that are capable of seamlessly merging digital virtual content into a real environment. Conceptual...
Tags: Purdue University, heavy construction, construction equipment, environment, training
White papers 2004-06-19
GPS-Based Wireless Collision Detection Of Construction Equipment
This paper reports on research related to avoiding collisions in construction sites using differential GPS Global Positioning System technology. In this paper, the researchers developed and implemented a system where GPS technology was used in tracking a single vehicle and relaying its information to a central server. Using another simulated...
Tags: Handhelds, GPS, collision, construction equipment, server, wireless
White papers 2003-02-27
Error Modeling For Automated Construction Equipment
This paper introduces the statistical error modeling approach for a computer-controlled Large-Scale Manipulator LSM. The LSM is sufficiently representative of several types of construction equipment to be able to serve as a general test bed. In the analysis, three factors which are measurable in real time: distance, hydraulic pressure, and...
Tags: Research & Development, Construction, University of Wisconsin, construction equipment, modeling, positioning, analysis, computer
White papers 2003-02-24

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Bavarian Brewhouse Begins Journey to Saint Arnold Brewing Company
In different parts of the world, crews aresimultaneously beginning renovations for a new brewery and dismantling anold one. In Houston, construction crews have begun gutting the building at2000 Lyons Avenue, which will be the new home of Saint Arnold BrewingCompany ( www.saintarnold.com ). In Burghausen, Germany, crews havedismantled Klosterbrauerei Raitenhaslach...
Articles 2008-06-25
Gold Resource Corporation Continues High-Grade Gold Intercepts at El Rey
Gold Resource Corporation GRC (OTCBB: GORO)(FRANKFURT: GIH) is pleased to report continued high-grade gold interceptsat El Rey including 3 meters of 31.5 g/t (1.01 oz/tonne) gold and 1.4meters of 55.3 g/t (1.78 oz/tonne) gold. El Rey is one of 4 properties inthe state of Oaxaca, Mexico in which GRC...
Articles 2008-06-25
Focus on the China Power Transmission & Distribution Equipment Industry Report, 2008
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Industria industry is available in its catalogue. China Power Transmission & Distribution Equipment Industry Report, 2008 http://www.reportlinker.com/p090547/China-Power-Transmission--Distribution-Equipment-Industry-Report-2008.html Power industry is the mainstay of the national economy. The scale of China's grid construction has been expanding...
Articles 2008-06-25
Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Cummins Filtration for Strong Contributions to Aerosol Filtration Technology
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Based on its recent analysis of the aerosol filtration market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Cummins Filtration with the 2008 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Innovation of the Year for developing high performance air filtration and crankcase ventilation systems that protect engines and significantly...
Articles 2008-06-24
Green Plains Renewable Energy's Iowa Ethanol Plant Expected to Be Online Next Week, an Industrial Info News Alert
Researched by Industrial Info Resources (SugarLand, Texas) -- Green Plains Renewable Energy (NASDAQ:GPRE) (Omaha,Nebraska) is expecting to put their Superior, Iowa ethanol plant onlineJune 30th. The plant is already fully staffed, is receiving grain and is inthe process of commissioning equipment and testing processing systems.Construction started on the estimated...
Articles 2008-06-24
Finnish machinery and equipment rental company Cramo Plc takes over rental operations of Norway's JM Byggholt AS
NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-24 June 2008-Finnish machinery and equipment rental company Cramo Plc takes over rental operations of Norway's JM Byggholt ASC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Finnish construction machinery and equipment rental company Cramo Plc (OMX Helsinki: CRA1V) said on Tuesday (24 June) that its Norwegian subsidiary Cramo AS...
Articles 2008-06-24
Delphi Awarded Tier 4 Fuel Injection Equipment Business With Construction Equipment Manufacturer JCB
Delphi Corp. (PINKSHEETS: DPHIQ) announced today thatit has been chosen to supply its Multec™ Medium Duty Common Rail MDCR forthe next generation of Tier 4 diesel engines to JCB Power Systems -- partof J C Bamford Excavators, the world's third largest producer ofconstruction equipment by volume. The seven-year contract commences...
Articles 2008-06-24
Cisco Signs Cooperation Agreements With China Mobile and China Construction Bank
Cisco China announced that thecompany has signed cooperation agreements with China MobileCommunications Corp. CMCC and China Construction BankCCB. The agreements were reached in Washington duringdiscussions at the fringes of the...
Articles 2008-06-24
Volvo: Truck Deliveries May 2008
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Regulatory News: Total deliveries of trucks from the Volvo Group's (STO:VOLVA) (STO:VOLVB) four truck companies in May amounted to 22,198, which is an increase of 15%, compared with the year-earlier period. Visit http://www.thenewsmarket.com/volvogroup to access broadcast-standard video from Volvo Group. You can preview...
Articles 2008-06-24
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