Looking at the offerings from equipment manufacturers on display at the CONEXPO-CON/AGG show, held in Las Vegas on March 10-13, it would be easy to assume it was all about the bigger and stronger machines.
Citing a growing and increasingly crowded field of grade-control systems and site layout technology, the Association of Equipment Manufacturers announced on Feb. 18 that it is working with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) on a common standard for grade-control data sharing.
The move brings Deere's excavators to a level of grade control alreadty seen among some of its competitors, but with full factory-installed integration with Topcon's machine-control systems.
