Capital Equipment News July 2022

allowing them to be completed in just one to two days. The company will also showcase its DoosanCONNECT TMS fleet and asset management system. DoosanCONNECT is a mobile application available for both Apple and Android devices that now offers customers a new all-in-one management system for Doosan construction equipment. Elsewhere, Bobcat’s E35 concept will highlight the company’s developments in automation. As in most heavy-duty excavators, the hydraulically controlled joysticks of the 3,5-t mini excavator are replaced by an electro-hydraulic system. Such a system allows Bobcat to customise the machine controls to all levels of operator skill. Additional digital functionalities and special features on the machine are also available to the operator. “With the help of integrated sensors, the machine can also carry out some semi automated tasks, helping the operator with precise grading and levelling, trenching or repetitive tasks such as return to dig among others. We want to show the capability of such a concept and prove the value it brings to the operator’s job and their productivity,” says Vijay Nerva, head of Innovation and Acceleration at Doosan Bobcat EMEA. b

One of the key topics at bauma 2022 will be the move towards the digital construction site.

drive motors. The only fluid that goes in the machine is about four litres of eco friendly coolant,” says Joel Honeyman, vice president of Global Innovation at Bobcat. Further developments Doosan’s exhibit at bauma 2022 will focus on innovation. Under the theme of Powered by Innovation, the company will present the latest developments in the company’s leading-edge Concept-X, Xitecloud and DoosanCONNECT systems, together with other new products such

as the world’s first ‘Transparent Bucket’ and the new DX225LC-7X, Doosan’s first ‘smart’ crawler excavator. Doosan will be demonstrating the latest version of Concept-X, the world’s first unmanned automated and integrated control solution introduced in 2019, for construction, quarrying and mining sites. XiteCloud is the first stage in commercialising Concept-X – it maximises productivity by incorporating complex 3D drone construction surveys and earthwork calculations into a cloud platform,

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