Construction Middle East: Arabian Civil Engineers by GineersNow GineersNow Engineering Magazine Issue No. 014, Sau | Page 45

There are still so much to forward with engine controls,
fuel injection systems, and the engine combustion
process. When engineers work to improve these areas
about the engines in construction equipment, it will
yield increased fuel efficiency and decreased amount
of harmful emissions into the air. The greatest impact
in redesigning the engine is in the environment, being a
critical issue in the construction equipment industry.
Computer systems are only a recent integration with
construction equipment, but they make waves for
enhanced site performance. Digitization, including
GPS navigation, allows more effective monitoring in
machine operations, more analyzed fuel efficiency,
much controlled hydraulics, and reliable reporting of
machine performance – all of which are in the end part
of the construction process.
But there’s a m ore current technology, the 3D printing
or additive manufacturing, which takes production of
construction equipment to an entirely new level. It
allows modelling of equipment parts like cabs, booms,
and buckets, as 3D printing provide design allowances
not found in conventional manufacturing.
Efficiency, quality, and safety are the cores of
construction equipment. And they remain to be so in
the future, just catching up with modern technology.
While these three are existing areas that seek
improvement, there is also a room for creativity in the
manufacture of construction equipment by producing
hybrids and using 3D printing.
There are already existing hybrid excavators and
hybrid bulldozers, which will continue to flourish as
manufacturers look in this area to accelerate site
operations
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