Productivity Report - CAT Road Construction - Report Discussion by Paul Hahn: – In December 2006 Caterpillar published and excellent Productivity Study. The Study compares and contrasts roadway construction utilizing the Accugrade machine control systems and traditional methods. The abstract from the Study provides more details: A productivity study on AccuGrade systems was ...

How Accurate does Data need to be? by Marco Cecala: – There is a natural progression a data builder goes through. The first is just learning the product. This relates to the actual button pushing and navigation. After that becomes easier to do, the user starts to begin to really see the 3D part of the process. It is one thing to think in 3 dimensions, and another to be able to tell a …

Machine Control and the Land Surveyor: Training the Clients by Jay Jones, LS: – Since I began writing articles for MachineControlOnline the most common question I am asked and the topic I keep coming back to and writing about is the opportunities for land surveyors in the machine control market. One of my first articles dealt with how machine control is affecting the ...

Building a Simple Site - Speed vs. Haste by Chad Cooper: – During the Second World War our ground troops learned a lot of lessons about the best way to fight a war in the 20th century. Unfortunately, most of these lessons were learned under fire from our opponents. One of the early lessons learned was the difference between haste and speed. In combat, troops were ...

When DO I Start Modeling? by Ron Ciccarone, LS: – If you read my article last month, I just got another site to model and it was rotated off north and in a bogus coordinate system. This should be one of the first things to check and notify your client. Someone will have to contact the engineer or surveyor. You can always model the site and later rotate and translate, but be sure ...