Technology is changing construction across a number of fronts, from the back office to the field. Construction equipment is not immune, and apart from GPS machine control, construction robotics and IoT-based reliability services.
But according to Interact Analysis Senior Research Director Alastair Hayfield, equipment automation will get a helping hand from another trend--electrification.
IRONPROS: So Alastair, you and I had a talk the other day about the movement of light equipment towards greater automation and there's some different factors playing into that that are going to help move that along in the coming months and years. and I found it Pretty fascinating. Ah so before we get into that. Why don't you kind of spill a little bit on who you are what you do in life as we know it. And a quick front page on interact analysis.
ALASTAIR HAYFIELD: The way I tend to think about automation should focus on where is it going to help and where is it going to be used right? Normally, you would automate something if you want it doing really precisely. Or it might be you can't find enough people to do the job manually so you kind of want to have a machine do it. Or it might be efficiency or safety. For compact equipment, it's going to be around some of that, you know, labor saving and speeding things up for operators or kind of helping them with more mundane tasks Some of the tasks that operators are asked to do require a huge amount of skill. It's a very skillful job. But if there aren't enough people to get those tasks done, you start to think about how you can provide a kind of a technological boost for an operator who might not be able to do something ...
IRONPROS: Why do you think that we're going to see a lot of action in that space right now as opposed to the the heavier types of earth moving and mining equipment that we often see referred to with us.
ALASTAIR HAYFIELD: It might be kind of two things. Typically, you tend to see the transition to electrification kind of going a little bit hand in hand with greater automation and autonomy. If you're starting to you know, put more electronics, more motors into a vehicle ...
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