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Rail work can often be fraught with potential safety hazards. Jobs typically take place in confined corridors, meaning space is limited and safety standards can be difficult to effectively maintain. Even small-scale projects often require multiple machines and numerous...

With the ever-increasing focus on productivity, adding weighing scales to your loader is a must. By ensuring each load is right the first time, every time, loader scales are proven to dramatically reduce trips to the stockpile, so you’ll...

Proximity systems are comprehensive systems designed to elevate safety standards across the construction industry. They work by utilising various technologies to complement existing safety practices and standards. Rather than relying on machine operators and workers to abide by adequate safety...

Some of Position Partners’ most experienced field technicians and installers look back on challenging jobs they’ve had over the years. With more than 30 years in the industry of fitting machine guidance technology to earthmoving and mining plant, Position Partners...

Andrew Granger Is the Business Manager For Mining, Solar And Landfill Solutions At Position Partners. Here, he outlines the key benefits to implementing GPS Machine Guidance on Landfill Sites. As the population grows, so too does the demand for waste...

ACI Excavations has a reputation for being early adopters of cutting-edge technology, and so it was no surprise that when the company purchased its latest piece of machinery, a 220x Series Excavator from JCB CEA, they paired it with...

Sokkia announces the availability of new robotic total stations designed to improve job site productivity. The iX-1200 and iX-600 total stations are professional-level positioning tools for survey and layout in the building construction and infrastructure trades. Engineered for integration with field controllers, software...

Machine guidance is a technology that precisely tracks a machine within a mine to ensure adherence to the mine plan.  It gives machine operators and project managers data to stop over digging, under digging, and digging in the wrong location....

Topcon Positioning Group has announced system solutions designed to support kerb and gutter paving professionals by maintaining productivity and accuracy, even when facing difficult GPS/GNSS coverage issues. Using either the GT-1200 series robotic total station or the LN-150 construction set out tool, customers...

The National Measurement Institute (NMI) advises that industrial scales should be calibrated every 6-12 months depending on the stresses applied to the scale, or after major hydraulic work is completed on the scale. This is for maintaining accuracy, fairness,...