MOBA Land Leveling system in EQUESTRIAN CLUB

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MOBA Land Leveling system in EQUESTRIAN CLUB, UAE

One of the top companies in Sharjah, UAE is relying on the MOBA Land Leveling System for tractors to prepare the perfect terrain before each horse show. The event happens twice a year. Every show has its unique conditions that affect the horse and the rider’s performance, and one major factor is the smoothness of the ground. Both not properly leveled and sticky ground may reduce the horse’s mobility.

A leveled racetrack for horses offers several benefits. Firstly, it provides a consistent and fair surface for all participating horses, reducing the likelihood of accidents or injuries caused by uneven terrain. Secondly, a leveled track ensures that the race is determined by the horses’ skill and speed rather than external factors such as track conditions. This promotes a more level playing field and enhances the integrity of the sport. Additionally, a leveled track allows trainers and jockeys to accurately assess and improve the performance of their horses over time. Lastly, it can contribute to better record keeping and statistical analysis, enabling more precise evaluation of horse performance and breeding potential.
After each use, our customer keeps on praising both the robustness and the accuracy of the MOBA Laser Matic. Extremely easy to operate, as the operator turns on the tractor and drives the field. The speed in controlling the tractor’s grader prevents the level correction rework.

Most important features:

  • Easy to use
  • Resettable timer which allows to measure leveling time
  • RF remote control unit lets you operate the transmitter while driving the tractor
  • Rugged mounting solution via ram mount
  • Water proof technology
  • Usable for zero slope, single slope and Dual slope

Finding a softer footing for prolonged hours of safe horse riding is no longer a problem, thanks to the reliable solution called MOBA LLS. With over 50 years of experience as a trusted partner in leveling appliances, MOBA brings its expertise to the equestrian world. The MOBA leveling system operates seamlessly in multinational environments, showcasing its robustness and simplicity for the operator. It ensures a secure and stable surface, providing both horse riders and trainers with peace of mind during their activities. Count on MOBA LLS to deliver the optimal leveling solution for a superior horse riding experience.

Australian small business operator choses MOBA 3D XSite

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Australian small business operator choses MOBA 3D XSite

Meet Jack from ECHUCA MOAMA BOBCAT AND EXCAVATOR HIRE PTY LTD

Jack Healy operates his own business with currently 1 Excavator in Victoria, Australia. Jack has just bought his first MOBA 3D Excavator System and he agreed to a little interview with Alexander Wahlmann –  Sales and Business Development APAC.

Alexander Wahlmann: How did you find the sales process with MOBA Australia?

Jack Healy: Great and effective. The guys from MOBA Australia were very helpful and customer orientated. The system was in stock and no lead time before the installation. 

Alexander Wahlmann: What do your typical projects look like?

Jack Healy: Trenching, Digging Foundations, Preparing land plots, parking lots, etc.

Alexander Wahlmann: Why did you choose MOBA?

Jack Healy: To be honest, the opposition was not able to confirm availability in time when the system was needed. While looking at other options, we found MOBA online and especially liked the good customer reviews and friendly straight-forward service.

Alexander Wahlmann: What is it that you most like about the MOBA 3D system?

Jack Healy: Thanks to the MOBA 3D system, I can perform many tasks independently that prior to the automation was not possible. No more Stacking & waiting for the surveyor to continue work. I get the job done in 1/2 the time. My customer also recognizes the professionality of an excavator equipped with a 3D automation system.

Alexander Wahlmann: Would you recommend MOBA 3D systems to other operators like yourself?

Jack Healy: Definitely, and I have done this multiple times already.

We thank Jack very much for his time and wish him succesfull digging operations for the future!!

Why small business Operators chose MOBA 3D XSite to upscale their business technology

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Why small business Operators chose MOBA 3D XSite to upscale their business technology

Meet Nick from DAVEY GRINTER CIVIL CONSTRUCTIONS PTY LTD. Nick and his wife operate their own family business with currently 6 Excavators and their Team of 6 people in Victoria, Australia. Nick Has just bought his second MOBA 3D Excavator System and he agreed to a little interview with Alexander Wahlmann, Sales and Business Development APAC.

Alexander Wahlmann: How did you find the sales process with MOBA Australia?

Nick Davey: Great and very effective. One week from the first call to final installation of the system.

Alexander Wahlmann: What do your typical projects look like?

Nick Davey: Digging Foundations, Trenching, Preparing land plots, Subdivision, basically a bit of everything.

Alexander Wahlmann: Why did you choose MOBA?

Nick Davey: I was looking for a very customer orientated system provider that puts a high value on Service and Support. I then got recommended MOBA by a close friend with good experience.

Alexander Wahlmann: Did you look at other brands?

Nick Davey: Yes, but it seems that customers like us, family-owned small-medium businesses, are less interesting for MOBA competitors because we only operate on a relatively small scale.

Alexander Wahlmann: Any advice to small-medium size contractors looking to make the investment into 3D but scared about ROI?

Nick Davey:  The day you start working with the system you immediately save time and money. No more leaving the cabin and no need for additional surveying work. By working independently one gets much more digging done in a day. And you only dig once, no re-digging with a MOBA XSite 3D system. Your clientele also recognizes the difference of Quality when you turn up with a proper 3D system for the job.

Alexander Wahlmann: Finally, how do would you describe the last couple of years of growing your own independent successful business?

Nick Davey: It has been a bumpy road but luckily, I have the diggers to keep smoothing the path.

Alexander Wahlmann: Greatest comment ever from a digger operator 🙂

The future of remote support

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The future of remote support

The global Corona pandemic has catalyzed remote support solutions worldwide. The sudden disruption of travel and restriction of movement even in close surroundings has triggered companies to operate remotely and develop new techniques to overcome non-contact-based support with their clients. Remote Software support is already very common and has been used long before the latest pandemic. However remote support for physical installation, calibration work and troubleshooting are yet less exploited.

MOBA wants to ensure state of the art customer service hence we exploit the option of using Video glasses next to smartphone support to guarantee fast support without restriction on location time zones.

Video glasses have not yet made their way to the private consumer rather being a business tool for commercial ventures. From being able to view a task through the eyes of a local technician from anywhere in the world to the option of displaying augmented realty in the view of the local “avatar” – video glasses offer divers option to revolutionize the future of remote support.

Although video glasses and connected software options may not have yet the full capabilities that ensure smooth remote support, it is just a matter of time until this technology conquers businesses that demand global service & support. MOBA is taking part in this new feature by testing and evaluating the most effective ways and solutions that are offered by the video glass market to ensure our full evolvement of our digital potential.

MOBA technician Dominik Götz working in a paver testing available Video glasses. What do you think about global support via video technology such as video glasses?

Saudi Arabia invests in gold production

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Saudi Arabia invests in gold production

Saudi Arabian Mining plans to invest billions of dollars in mining and the target is to double the gold production to 1 million ounces within five years.

Saudi Arabia is not just drilling for oil. The country also has significant gold deposits. Most recently, about 415,000 ounces of gold were extracted from the earth each year. Saudi Arabian Mining Co. now plans to invest more than 7.4 billion U.S. dollars in mineral exploration by 2035 and double gold production in five years. This is what Bloomberg reports. “The MOBA Drilling System help them to increase the production. This system helps to drill the blastholes very precise and make the whole drilling process very effective. It saves a lot of time, wearing costs and a lot of dynamite”, told Engineer Fareed Ahmed Procurement & Sales Manager from Bait Al-Hamsat Trading Est.

With an annual production volume of 1 million ounces (31.1 tons), Saudi Arabia advanced into the top 20 of the largest producing countries. The plans are part of a 426-billion-dollar infrastructure program to generate resources worth up to 1.3 trillion dollars.

A protected harbour crane still in daily use today

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A protected harbour crane still in daily use today

The historic town of Lindau on Lake Constance is famous for its lighthouse and for the lion standing right next to it at the entrance to the dockside. It is definitely worth a visit to this beautiful old town with its picturesque scenery located on a peninsula.The docks also offer a unique highlight for people interested in technology – the Derrick harbour crane.

This is still in use today to lift boats out of or into Lake Constance. Ancient greeks are known to have worked with a hoist, very similar to a Derrick crane

In most cases, the basic structure of the derrick crane consists of a steel strut construction, which looks like a supported A (shown in orange) and which allows a high load capacity. The jib (marked green) is pivotable and a pulley block (purple) is attached to the tip of the jib to control the extension/reach. The load is lifted and lowered by another pulley system (magenta). In the case of Lindau, the winch for lifting and lowering the load is located in the machine room.

Built in 1936, the derrick crane is equipped with a 30 ton winch and easily lifts boats of up to 15 meters long. The actual lifting capacity has been reduced to 9 tons for this protected crane. The load winch for lifting the boats can now be operated either with a cable-bound control system, or it is still possible to control the winch directly from the engine room. On the other hand, the adjustment of the jib is still done with a hand crank!
The crane also shows how innovative the company was back then. There are deflection rollers on the crane mast, which need to be lubricated from time to time. In order to avoid having to carry the lubricant with you when you climb up, there are lubricant depots at the crucial points which are filled. By turning a screw, the desired amount of lubricant can be pressed out of the depot and placed directly on the affected area. Even today the crane is still lubricated in this way. Do you know of any particularly interesting cranes or lifting platforms from days gone by that are still in use today?

QSBW 4.0 – Future roadconstruction in Germany

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QSBW 4.0 - Future roadconstruction in Germany

QSBW 4.0 means Quality Roadconstruction Baden-Württemberg and is the most advanced and most digitalized working plan we have in Germany. Published in 2018, we had a lot of pilot projects running this year. The goal is to have as much as possible digitized and documented in order to achieve visible quality for long lasting and perfectly built roads.

Jobstory QSBW 4.0

We as MOBA where also part of most of these pilots by connecting our Thermal Profiling System Pave-IR with BPO Asphalt from Volz Consulting GmbH. BPO Asphalt is a digital Jobsite planning tool and supports the foreman by sending him live information from the mixing plant, the trucks, the paver all the way to the rollers. The Dynapac Paver SD2550CS was also equipped with MOBA Levelling technology – our Big Ski, working on the left and the right side made sure that our customer reached an absolute smooth road.
Our Pave-IR System scans the complete road width of more than 10 meters and delivers the temperature profile. Connected to BPO Asphalt and to our MOBA Cloud, the customer was able to see live data within the BPO System and also live data within our documentation software PaveProjectManager – our tool which helps to load and edit the data from the Pave-IR System and create a Quality Report. This is how a jobsite should look like in future. Open interfaces are one of the keys to connected systems of different parties.

Why are these digital systems important?

The visibility of many things which where invisible over more than hundred years is one of the key arguments for digitalization. Process optimization by saving time, documenting quality and using paving quality tools helps to improve on every single workflow all around the jobsite.

The reason behind Thermal Profiling

Researchers found out that a correlation between surface temperature and the density exists in asphalt paving which is called Thermal Segregation. Thermal Segregation appears when you have cold spots in your pavement. Thermal Segregation supports Material Segregation which is the main reason for road cracks.
Pave-IR scans the asphalt surface behind the machine and creates a thermal profile which is displayed and stored on our operand. Important values like job distance, machine speed, position, single temperature sensors and ambient conditions are also shown in the system. All these values help to understand the jobsite and as well as asphalt paving in general. During and after the jobsite, different truck loads, paver stops, machine problems, material flow and thus quality is visible and improvable.

Going Digital with Construction Processes

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Going Digital with Construction Processes

Construction processes are now more efficient and modern than ever. However, many problems still exist for project managers such as delays, cost increases, insufficient coordination between different subsections and parties involved, or fluctuations in quality. In addition to these “traditional” problems, there are other requirements are seeing a higher impact during recent years: sustainability, environmental aspects, energy efficiency, and lifecycles.   

To overcome all these challenges, it’s very important to use all available tools to further improve efficiency and achieve consistently high-quality results. And there are indeed modern tools help to overcome various obstacles and achieve better results than ever.
But what does this look like in the construction world? To start, it includes the use of digital advices and programs in both the office and the machinery itself. More and more construction machines are equipped with state-of-the-art control systems that precisely control the construction process. Going digital also offers great potential for fleet management, predictive maintenance, and optimization of the organization of business and project processes and the data analysis.

MOBA’s 3D excavator systems, Xsite Pro

Another example of going digital is Building Information Modeling, or BIM, which is a method of planning, execution, and management for building construction, no matter if houses, roads or other buildings are present. It is based on 3D models and offers information and tools for an efficient working process for all parties such as architects, engineers, and construction companies. If machines are equipped with the corresponding control systems, for example MOBA’s 3D excavator systems, the data model can be transferred directly to the machine in real time.
Using BIM offers many advantages, for example better data quality, as all data is based on a joint base, which gets synchronized continually. This data can then be used and shared by all the teams involved on a project, greatly improving the project work flow.

MOBA’s 3D asphalt pavers systems

The key advantage by using a digital solution, is the whole working process can save time and money as the planning and implementation is made more efficient and centralized. And who wouldn’t like a well-organized project?
For many companies, it can be hard to consider digital solutions because there isn’t enough information, or a lack of expertise. That’s why it’s important to partner with a company that knows and understands both the construction process and how to adequately implement digital solutions. Don’t let manual processes be the norm, it’s time to go digital.

„And the winner is… Pave-TM“ – our Thickness Measurement System has won the bauma Innovation Price 2019

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„And the winner is… Pave-TM“ – our Thickness Measurement System has won the bauma Innovation Price 2019

What could be more on point for the Innovation Center section of our MOBA community than a first price in category „components“ of the „bauma Innovation price 2019“?

The „bauma 2019“ will always be special for MOBA as well as for me and my whole team around the product Pave-TM. What started with a simple trial in year 2015 is now a released product and makes it’s way into the global markets. Last year it was time to apply for the bauma innovation price. After adding a new sensor to the system, we achieved more stable and accurate measurements over the hot asphalt. We are still the only ones, having a system for continuously thickness measurement during the paving process for pavers and this is exactly what the jury understood and acknowledged.
Decision makers from „Verband deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau e.V. (VDMA)“, „Hauptverband der Deutschen Bauindustrie e.V. (HDB)“, „Zentralverband des deutschen Baugewerbes e.V. (ZDB) and Bundesverband Baustoffe – Steine und Erden e.V. (BBS)“ were voting five winners for five categories: Machine, components, construction methods, research & science and design. More than 160 companies applied for the prices.

In January, we were informed, that we made our way up to the top three in our category. Now we had to create a film which shows the benefits and the purpose of Pave-TM.

This film was released and shown as a system introduction at the „BAUMA Mediendialog“ which took place in February in the BAUMA halls in Munich. Being there for two days, I was talking to more than 30 international journalists from different branches in order to explain the idea of the Pave-TM product to them, but also telling them, what makes it so special and innovative. Afterwards, they could also vote for the top three products within the different categories and it looked like we did a good job there.
Talking to all the different journalists, I realized again how special such an innovative product is and how special it is, to be Product Manager of such a product. It’s unique, and we are doing pioneering work, creating ideas, solutions and patents, heading forward into existing and new markets. Of course, there is also a downside of working on innovative products, because you are sometimes struggling and end up in dead ends. But exactly this challenge motivates us to keep going for our vision and our targets.
The final big day was Sunday before bauma. We were invited to the prize-giving into the „Allerheiligen-Hofkirche“ in the center of Munich, a perfect location for such an event. The first category was machines and „Herrenknecht AG“ won the first price there. Second category already was components and it was an really exciting moment, when we as MOBA were announced as the winners of the first price. I was really proud, when I received the price. Ms. Ursula Heller was the moderator of the event, and she interviewed me about the product and also about innovative thinking and what it takes to be innovative as a company.
I cannot imagine a better start for the bauma 2019.

Airport Project in Morowali – Sulawesi, Indonesia

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Airport Project in Morowali - Sulawesi, Indonesia

The Vantage Group successfully installed 2 sets of MOBA Big Sonic Skis for an Airport Project in Morowali – Sulawesi. 

The challenge was not only the logistics, but also the intense training on product handling as well as hot-to-hot paving. The runway is more than 1,900 meters long and needs to have 0.0% inclination in longitudinal direction and 1.5% in cross section. The MOBA Big Sonic Ski is the perfect choice to achieve these challenging targets.
President Joko Widodo announced that he will be the first person to land on this strategic airport, therefore, the expectations and demand for quality is extraordinarily high.

"The use of Big Sonic Ski enabled us to concentrate on the slope and cross slope sections rather than having to focus on smoothness and leveling. As usual, working with Big Sonic Ski, saves time, costs and the outcome of the asphalt layer speaks for itself."

Moritz Müller, Head of Engineering ,Vantage Commerce