Demonstration of a GS506 machine control system

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Demonstration of a GS506 machine control system on a Case 856B Grader

The GS 506 machine control system enables the operator to accurately level and grade undergrounds with a variety of sensors.
The system offers free mobility in difficult terrain and increases efficiency and work speed. All stakeholders of the application are benefitting from using machine control as it saves time, costs (machine wear and tear, petrol) and supports the operator to perform accurate performance.
In the picture below, the GS506 is equipped on the CASE Grader 856B on a trial in Thailand.

The GS506 system processes the height & slope information from its sensors and automatically controls the blade of the machine to ensure most effective grading.

To show the benefit of the system – MOBA and CNH Thailand created 2 challenges for the demo of the system:

  1.  The first challenge involved the creation of a 2,5% slope simulating a standard road roof profile (where you allow water to run of the highway left and/or right).

For this task, the operator decided to use the MOBA LS3000 sensor in combination with an auto slope laser transmitter.

The laser beam of the transmitter is caught by the laser receiver for height reference. By the use of an electronic mast, the operator does not need to make any height adjustment of the laser manually but can control the process form inside the cabin.

    2. The second trial was based on a curve with the aim to create a slope of 4% with a stringline reference.

For this task, the operator decided to use the MOBA Sonic Ski to read directly from a stringline.
The Sonic Ski enables the driver to stay on the track and the slope sensors of the GS 506 system ensure that the correct slope is created.

Results

Trial 1) With only two passes with the laser- the operator was able to create a slope of 2,6% – it’s merely impossible to manually work with such efficient and accuracy.

Trial 2) With only two passes with the Sonic Ski – the operator was able to create a slope of 3,8%- also in this case one can stipulate that manual grading can never be as accurate

Further passes would have led to absolute accuracy.
I would like to thank CNH Thailand for organizing this event in Thailand and I am looking forward to many more success stories.

Breakthrough of MOBA 3D in China

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Breakthrough of MOBA 3D in China

Breakthrough of MOBA 3D in China
—-MOBA 3D-GNSS leveling system matches to Shantui bull dozer perfectly.

Over the years, the installation of automatic leveling system in bulldozers with full hydraulic quantitative pumps has always failed. The main reason is that the temperature of hydraulic oil of bulldozers is extremely high under the condition of automatic operation. The high temperature of the hydraulic system can cause the sealing parts of the hydraulic system to fail in a short time, and also cause the oxidation and deterioration of the hydraulic oil, and even cause the deformation and damage of some parts.

On 17th June, three engineers of MOBA Dalian successfully installed MOBA 3D-GNSS automatic leveling system on the bulldozer of Shantui full hydraulic pilot quantitative pump, and after a week’s testing, the system was finally successful.

Main content of the guide for the MOBA cloud connection:

General:
– Common questions and tasks about cloud connection are listed in a general section.
– A definition of the cloud connection for the system or the component. For example, the selection of certain components is important for the later implementation of some requirements.

Cloud server:
– Lists questions and tasks related to server requirements.
– Definitions for IT-infrastructure, hosting, security, management.

Cloud project:
– Lists questions and tasks for installing a cloud project.
– Definitions for the specific application, for customer, partners involved, users. In addition, definitions for web interfaces, service interfaces and so on.
– Checklists help with the implementation.

Cloud gateway:
– Defines the specific requirements for cloud gateway or other system components regarding to the cloud connection.
– Cloud gateways could be:
– MOBA Cloud Gateway WiFi – as a SIM-free solution
– MOBA Cloud Gateway cellular network – SIM card
– MOBA Cloud Gateway cellular network – integrated SIM chip

Communications security:
– This section lists all points for the communications security.

SIM (Subscriber Identity Module):
– The requirements for the SIM are listed here.
– Management for all SIM related data

By integrating the handling of the cloud connection into the development process, a structured and uniform implementation of the requirements are guaranteed.

After long time testing (continuous working for more than 3 hours), the highest temperature of hydraulic oil is 59°C, and the leveling accuracy is controlled within 3 cm. Perfect test results, and MOBA 3D-GNSS automatic leveling system has been recognized by Shantui technicians and leaders.

Paving new Vietnamese Formula 1

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Paving new Vietnamese Formula 1 racetrack with MOBA’s PAVE-IR

In April the first Formula One race ever should have taken place in Vietnam. Sadly, Corona has upset these plans and the race in Hanoi was delayed to a date that has yet to be defined. Nevertheless, the racetrack was finished in time, and the pavers that paved the whole track were equipped with MOBA’s PAVE-IR system for temperature detection during paving. Altogether six Dynapac pavers were equipped with MOBA’s PAVE-IR thermal scan system and they also used the proven MOBA technology of Sonic-Skis.


PAVE-IR: Thermal visualization of asphalt installation in real time

Construction works on the Hanoi Street Circuit started in the beginning of 2019 and in October 2019 the construction staff was trained on PAVE-IR, a special but yet very simple to operate system, before paving started.

PAVE-IR allows a thermal visualization of the installation process in real time. Therefor the high-precision IR temperature scanner MTPS-100 provides a wide thermal profile of the built-in layer of up to 13 meters width. The visualization offers the possibility to detect points which might be affected by thermal segregation. With this information the construction company can react immediately.


Adrenaline and action: an exciting racetrack

About one third of the track was newly built, while the rest of the route is on public streets that have already been present. But of course they also had to be completely paved as they had not been constructed for Formula 1 races. In February 2020 the whole track was completed.

 
With 1.5 kilometers length, the racetrack includes one of the longest straights of Formula 1 racetracks. Here the drivers can go on full speed, that means up to 335km/h and here are also the stands for the 35.000 spectators.

It also features 23 bends that shall grant spectacular races. The Hanoi Street Circuit was designed by racetrack architect Hermann Tilke. Originally it should have taken place April 5th 2020, but as it was postponed because of Corona pandemic, let’s hope that soon the bolides speed through Hanoi.

Big Sonic Ski Installation in Uruguay (Latin America)

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Big Sonic Ski Installation in Uruguay (Latin America)

BSS Installation in Uruguay with our dealer KPN (Kapern Group), supported and trained by another dealer of Moba, our Argentine dealer, CAYSI SA.

"Many hands make light work" and "There’s no ‘I’ in ‘team’" or "United we stand, divided we fall" or "Union is strength"

It is my “thinking” on the business strategy that I am implementing in our distributor network in the Latin American region. Explaining it better, I am training good distributors, who in turn train others less experienced, creating healthy alliances, taking advantage of the same language (Spanish) and with minimal time zone differences, thus allowing response times to the customer to be reduced.

From Argentine to Cuba or Uruguay, from Colombia to Peru or to Guatemala, or from Mexico to Honduras, or from MOBA do Brazil to Colombia, …our dealers are creating friendships either by personally helping each other with this strategy or with the help of Facebook.. So we all win, we all feel like children of the same family (MOBA), offering the best quality of products, with the best support, at a lower cost and time to the end users.

KPN made the first installation of Big Sonic Ski in Uruguay (see pictures below), the jobsite was located in road Ruta 14 TRINIDAD city, the work was performed with the support of Mr. Julian Schvindt, a technical engineer of CAYSI. He made the installation and training of the BSS to KPN and to the operator of INCOCI. Was the first time that the crew of INCOCI worked with this kind of sophisticated technology on the paving machines. The feedback was very, very good.

It is easy make installations on machines that are already ready to connect our systems, but when it comes to machines that are not ready yet, we cannot tell the customer that their machine is unlike any others and we cannot install it!… Then we lose this customer and consequently others will lose without this feedback!… In this case, this Vogele SUPER 1303-2 paver, had no connectors so we couldn’t plug in our power cables.

But thanks to engineer Julian’s high technical knowledge, the solution was found, as you can see in the pictures above and he then plugged our cables directly into the machine’s electronic board, thus converting an unprepared machine into a machine like so many others with quick connections.

Happy customer, Loyal customer !!

After my visit and meeting some months ago with Mr. Antonio Villaluenga (Manager of KPN), the contractor INCOCI decided to try and reach the desired smoothness in this project, with the MOBA Big Sonic Ski with 4 sonics and 3 sonics.

We made many visits and meetings in the last years in construction companies, explaining and showing the benefits of our solutions. Now, they already understood that the smoothness is one of the most focus in road construction in other countries and the Big Sonic Ski is the answer for this specific request.

A good results in costs savings and time, higher quality and of course longer duration of the road, are the goal of the owners of the roads, and this it is possible only with investments in technology.

I hope INCOCI will install many other MOBA solutions in the other machines that they have in their machinery park.

Thank you CAYSI, KPN and INCOCI for your trust and positive feedback of our MOBA products!

MRW Load Cell: Features and Benefits

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MRW Load Cell: Features and Benefits

Rain or shine, the work of essential services continues, and I’m always thankful for that. When that work involves lifters and cranes, safety is always a top concern. When essential workers are using aerial lifts and MEWPs, one of the most important safety features provided is an accurate and precise measurement of the load in the cage. This is where MOBA continues to add value to its customers with the MRW load cell and its unique benefits and features.

One of these features is the easy integration of the loadcell between the boom and the cage. Two different load cell dimensions are also available for different cage weight requirements and each can compensate for the lever-arm effect. This simply means that the actual weight inside the cage will be measured independent from the position of the load inside the working platform. This feature is even available for MEWPs with no PLC system. By using the TUV approved MRW Limit and MOBA components, it is also possible to achieve performance level ‘D’. This increases performance and safety for the end user.

Another unique feature is that each load cell is temperature compensated. The drift caused by temperature in the load cell is compensated by using a climate cabinet during production. Each type of MRW is subjected to extreme high and low temperatures so the temperature effect can be determined and saved. This compensation for temperature is standard in all three types of the MRW, the MRW Limit for machines without a PLC system, 4-20 mA version and CAN version. These saved values provide temperature compensation and increased performance.

Along with the features and benefits demonstrated, the MRW also features easy service and calibration, prevention of end user manipulation, and redundancy for increased safety. With these features, benefits, and great performance, it is no wonder that MOBA is selling thousands of MRWs every year and many companies with large market shares have trusted MOBA to provide great value and performance for themselves and their end users. I’d love to talk more about our systems and you can always learn more here: https://moba-automation.com/crane-lifter or on our MOBA community site: https://mobacommunity.com/blogs/tag/Crane%20and%20Lifters

The IoT Revolution

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The IoT Revolution

Substantial Changes of Construction Processes

oT – Internet of Things is nowadays on everyone’s lips as a term for communication technologies that allow the networking of physical and virtual objects. It is, as the Global Standards Initiative defined in 2013, the “infrastructure of our information societies” with their global connection. Of course, IoT also affects construction industry.

IoT is more or less a network of internet-based devices. Almost every machine or device with a sensor that transmits data via internet can be part of an IoT system.
IoT allows the collection, processing and storing of that data. It makes the integration of physical things into computer-based systems possible.

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For construction industry that means that construction machines, material, devices and construction sites with all their sensors can be connected via internet. The benefit of collecting, analyzing and using this data is cost reduction, higher efficiency and an easier management. Explaining this in detail you should for example have a look on maintenance: Traditionally, each machine went through a regular check in specified time intervals. Of course that helped to maintain the operability and reduced downtimes. But it often also meant that parts that still worked were changed. Instead of this, with IoT nowadays a much more forward-looking maintenance is possible: The sensors monitor the actual condition of the machine and transmit the data via internet. That means that all deviations from the norm are displayed. This way maintenance intervals can be adapted to the sensor data and are only performed when really necessary. And the data helps avoiding failure times, which can become very expensive.

Another aspect is fuel efficiency: Fuel consumption and idle times are recorded by sensors and can be optimized via the recorded data. Asset tracking allows to track all machines or material so that the time planning of machinery and material can be adapted and waiting times reduced. Also theft gets immediately apparent as you can see the actual position of each machine. Furthermore, remote management of construction sites via IoT allows the site manager to control the working process on different, geographically distant construction sites at the same time. So he can check from anywhere, if everything works like it should and sees all the data from the construction site.

So when it comes to the equipping with IoT technologies, the effort and cost might on the first view look high, but if you offset the potential savings, it looks really attractive and can help to save a lot of money. And it the future, no construction site or any other part of our industry and society might get along without IoT.

A small box keep care for a big machine

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LOGISTIC MACHINERY a part of TDC Group New Dealer for MOBA earthmoving systems in Ukraine

The MOBA Ignition box IS-03 was designed to check the ignition and control the temperature at construction machines. The main application field is to control the temperature at the paver screed on a gas flame control for paver screed heater.
But you can use this box also for other application. Such as the machine OEM MADROG http://www.madrog.pl/en/
The MADROG Company, was established and started its activity in the production, service and repairs of the road machinery in 1985. They offer a wide sequence of modern road machines. Most of them are computer controlled which is vital for the both machine control and repair quality. They produce a wide range of machines designed to work with the use of bitumen emulsion like sprinklers, patchers and “kombains” for partial repair of the road surface, for example, as well as other machines like grit spreaders, asphalt boilers, multifunctional machines. For these machines is it necessary to have an precise and reliable ignition box which control the gas flame for to heat up the bitumen material to the right temperature.

The MOBA Ignition box IS-03 has following function:

• The actual temperature of the screed will be detected with a temperature sensor.
• If the measured temperature should be lower than the setpoint value, the ignition box IS-03 will open the gas valve and ignite for 10 seconds. The combustion of the gas mixture will be detected by the spark plug.
• In this case the gas valve will stay open and the screed / device will heat up until reach the set value. If the flame goes out during the operation ignition starts again for 10 seconds, until the desired temperature is reached, the gas valve will shut off.
• If no flame was recognized the gas valve will shut off and an alarm output will be activated.
• To repeat the ignition procedure after an alarm interruption, switch off power voltage and start again via switching on the voltage.

Wiring:

Upgrading your Furukawa Drilling machine to MOBA 3D

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Upgrading your Furukawa Drilling machine to MOBA 3D

MOBA AG and FURUKAWA are strong partners for 2D and 3D Drilling. Since 2018 Furukawa equips several machine types with MOBA’s MSD3000_IMS Display.
The display shows the internal machine data and camera pictures, front and rear. The corresponding Furukawa machines can be equipped 2D sensoric and/or can be upgraded to full 3D support. Machine guidance does not only increase the precision and effectiveness but also the safety of a working site. The Drilling machine can be used as an independent unit – the reliance on external survey teams is minimized. MOBA is one the leading manufacturers of Drilling systems and we are proud to have strong partners such as Furukawa.
Please find below the different sensors that are available for upgrading your Drilling machine. The options range from basic sensor extensions such as DEPTH and MAST Slope, over full 2D positioning and finally leading towards 3D control.

New G-Slope Sensor MGS-0150 for Smooth Asphalt Paving

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New G-Slope Sensor MGS-0150 for Smooth Asphalt Paving

Paving roundabouts, docking the truck to the paver, fast steering movements or moving the screed’s extending units were so far challenging for slope sensors. Because a conventional slope sensor can wrongly interpret acceleration as slope and then adjust the paver screed accordingly. For the paving result that means that unevenness in the asphalt can occur.

With MOBA’s new G-Slope Sensor MGS-0150, these are no more obstacles like these for paving a smooth asphalt layer. Because with this new sensor, that was especially developed for the use on asphalt pavers, neither impacts nor lateral acceleration have any influence on levelling during paving. With the integrated gyroscope, the sensor is able to recognize these impacts and there is no wrong adjustment of the levelling system.This way, the new sensor helps to achieve smoother results in asphalt paving.

The advantages of the G-Slope Sensor compared with a conventional slope sensor are:

– more stable measured value
– complete elimination of acceleration impacts when the screed width is changed
– no deviation of measured values by changing the screed width or other similar impacts

In all realistic application situations, the new G-Slope-Sensor proved its advantages as it leads to better paving results.

Compared to conventional slope sensors an additional gyroscope is implemented in this new sensor. The sensor is easy to mount, but it is important that is fixed on the paver on a rigid mounting without rubber buffers.

Of course the MGS-0150 sensor corresponds to MOBA’s quality standards, that means it is reliable and precise. With its robust housing is protected against environmental influences like rain or dust and corresponds to protection class IP67.

LOGISTIC MACHINERY a part of TDC Group New Dealer for MOBA earthmoving systems in Ukraine

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LOGISTIC MACHINERY a part of TDC Group New Dealer for MOBA earthmoving systems in Ukraine

Since 2019, the TDC group of companies has become an official dealer of MOBA Mobile Automation AG Earthmoving and mobile weighing products.

Several projects have been implemented for the installation of a levelling system on motor graders.

“Since road construction is a complex process that involves a wide fleet of equipment: asphalt pavers, road milling machines, excavators (with various attachments), bulldozers and graders, drilling and piling equipment, loaders, the work of each piece of equipment simply needs to be automated, which will increase it efficiency several times. MOBA has been dealing with this issue for almost 50 years” mean Vladimir Ivanov from Logistic Machinery a part of the group TDC. (Sales Manager Erik Geis from MOBA on the left and on the right Sales Manager Vladimir Ivanov from Logistic Machinery)

The TDC group of companies offers installation and maintenance of the MOBA GS-506 (2D) universal leveling system. This system is designed for graders and bulldozers. It greatly simplifies the excavation and grading work during the construction of the road base. The system eliminates downtime while waiting for the surveyor’s team, speeding up the workflow.

There are several options for completing the GS-506:

1. Basic system.

This semi-automatic configuration provides control of blade cross slope. Height adjustment takes place manually using levers. An excellent starting point for rough excavation work on a bulldozer. It also dramatically speeds up traditional “stakes” grading operations as the operator controls the height from one side of the blade. The system requires a minimum of time to retrain the operator and does not change the usual procedure for specialists.

2. Ultrasonic system.

The basic system is complemented by the Sonic-Ski ultrasonic sensor. This configuration of the MOBA GS-506 is fully automatic: Automatic control of cross slope, blade height and blade hold are three functions that provide the operator with the comfort of operating the machine. He does not need the commands of the surveyor (does not stand idle), is concentrated on work, performs grading work, especially “clean passes” much faster. It also reduces the requirements for the professional qualities of the operator. Ultrasound system — this is the most versatile option, which is suitable for the construction of roads and square objects. The support surface can be a stretched line, a road edge, or an already prepared surface (especially when the operator makes a parallel pass). This configuration can be installed on a grader and a bulldozer, but is more relevant for a grader.

3. Laser system.

The basic system is complemented by a laser plane builder and a laser receiver on the mast. This configuration of the system is the most accurate, in addition, it allows you to freely move around the construction site, however, a laser plane is used as a reference surface, respectively, the grader can only copy the plane, and this is clearly not enough for the construction of a road with a complex longitudinal profile. The system is intended for the construction of site facilities: shopping centres, stadiums, parking lots.

Installing even the simplest basic MOBA GS-506 system on a grader / bulldozer will increase the productivity of excavation and grading operations, especially at the stage of final “finishing passes” significant.

By installing the MOBA GS-506 system on a grader / bulldozer, the road construction company will receive the following benefits:

– increasing the pace of work and labor productivity;

– high accuracy and quality of work and, as a result, a decrease in the likelihood of unplanned expenses associated with correcting and reworking work.

– independent workflow – the ability to build an object in a shorter time frame.

– work comfort – reducing the requirements for the operator’s professional skills, increasing his productivity and increasing motivation.

– the ability to upgrade and modify in 3D – the system recognizes the type of connected sensor.

– improving the reputation of the company using advanced construction technologies in its work.