Caterpillar’s VisionLink platform is helping quarry operators achieve consistently strong levels of production across every jobsite.
Every jobsite engages in production. However, efficient productivity remains a challenge for many construction businesses. Low productivity means low revenue, which directly impacts profitability. So to help businesses measure, monitor and manage assets to maximise jobsite efficiency, Caterpillar has developed VisionLink™.
VisionLink is an easy-to-use, cloud-based platform that gathers, analyses and summarises machine telematics and jobsite data from equipment on- and off-site, regardless of its brand. Helping to improve productivity is just one benefit of VisionLink – there’s definitely more to this technology than that.
For site managers, owners and operators, it’s important to understand how assets are being utilised and how operations are flowing. VisionLink delivers a deeper level of actionable insights. These allow users to manage changes and help make improvements across the jobsite, such as:
- Improving site productivity
- Lowering cost per tonne
- Improving fleet utilisation
- Lowering fleet costs
- Decreasing idle time
- Reducing fuel burn
For many businesses, VisionLink is a welcome relief. It means they no longer need to manually compile data – a time-consuming process that’s far from airtight (and far from enjoyable).
DI.MA Ltd. is an Italian company that recovers waste materials and turns them into construction products.
“We produce industry-certified aggregates for use in construction. Particularly for concrete batching plants, asphalt plants, construction sites, road works and large logistics,” DI.MA chairman Paolo Ottonelli said.
Working in a very competitive market, it’s incredibly important that DI.MA has clear visibility of the costs attached to each tonne of product it sells. That’s why DI.MA became an early adopter three years ago.
VisionLink helps DI.MA know where events such as payload and dumping occur. “It’s very important to understand where, and in which phases of the process, resources are used,” DI.MA condition monitoring and digital services developer Andrea Bresciani said.
Using VisionLink, DI.MA can track material movement between processing, plant and stockpiles. It can then track when and where the material is loaded onto trucks and taken to customers. Using the cost dashboard, DI.MA can also track how much it costs to do all this. It allows the team to make the changes required to help drive down their cost per tonne.
“The use of VisionLink allows us to assess where we have leakages or inefficiencies and therefore improve our production cycle,” DI.MA technical director Gian Luca Gamba said.
“We can then make decisions based on scientific data.”
Being a digital tool, VisionLink is regularly updated, with new features added automatically, helping to keep you one step ahead. These upgrades – including seat belt compliance, electronic payload tickets, the Operator Coaching feature, and Cat Grade visualisation with remote file management – are designed to help make daily operations safer, smarter and more efficient.
The VisionLink interface is easy to use despite the complex activity going on behind the screen. Businesses can now understand volumes of data at just a glance.
“This simple intuitive online tool visually represents all the data, everything that’s happening on your jobsite,” Caterpillar strategy manager for VisionLink Michael Miller said.
“You can set up simple reports to have all that information delivered straight to your inbox.”
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