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EQUIPMENT The LTM 1650-8.1, LTM 1450-8.1, LTM 1300-6.2, LTM 1250-5.1 and work. Additional telescopic mobile cranes are being added to
LIEBHERR LAUNCHES CRANE PLANNER 2.0
Crane Planner 2.0 at regular intervals. The update also includes the
new distance tool, which enables objects such as machines and
LTM 1230-5.1 cranes are now included in the program
buildings to be positioned relative to each other with centimeter
precision.
The Liebherr Crane Planner 2.0 helps users to identify solutions
and procedures for their lifting work in advance. This enables
complicated heavy lifts with crawler cranes as well as supposedly
quick and easy taxi lifts by mobile cranes to be completed safely.
The tool combines an interactive 3D visualisation of the machines,
the loads and surrounding objects with dimensions, a positioning
tool and Google Maps, without the need for expensive CAD
programs or high performance computers, the company said.
The results of the planning process can be exported in the form
of a report and sent to the customer.
The data displayed in Crane Planner 2.0 are determined using
exactly the same calculation logic as the live data generated
Fast generation of precise reports including a combination of by the real mobile and crawler cranes. Key data such as ground
all planning data (support pressures, centers of gravity, lifting pressures, support pressures, lifting capacities and centres of
capacities, etc.) for all the machines during every single step of the gravity are calculated simultaneously. Each time the configuration,
job. load or geometry is changed, a new calculation is carried out.
Challenging planning tasks can be completed professionally in
Liebherr’s latest lift planning software update now includes three- 2D using the ‘Free’ version. The range of functions is similar to the
dimensional lift planning which can be carried out for further LTM time-tested LICCON work planner. The ‘Pro’ version also contains
mobile cranes from Ehingen. detailed, interactive 3D models of the cranes, as well as a library
In addition to the LTM 1750 9.1, which was already included in with various 3D objects such as buildings, roads, machines or
the program, the LTM 1650-8.1, LTM 1450-8.1, LTM 1300-6.2, LTM load objects. Map views from Google Maps and 3D data can be
1250-5.1 and LTM 1230-5.1 are now also available for planning included in the display in the correct scale.

ZOOMLION UNVEILS ‘INTELLIGENT’ ROBOTIC EXCAVATOR for improving construction efficiency and reducing operating
Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd. has costs; more importantly, it can work in dangerous and complex
launched what the company called “the first collaborative environments, protecting operators from risks.
intelligent robotic excavator” at its 6th Science and Technology Intellectualization has become an inevitable trend in the
Innovation Conference on Jan 7. development of construction machinery, and Zoomlion has
The excavator equipped with human-machine interaction system integrated sensing technology, Internet of Things (IoT) and big data
integrates artificial intelligence, intelligent control and other to further promote the comprehensive connectivity of people,
advanced technologies, which the company said empowers machines and things since 2014. The blockbuster launch of the
the excavator “to interact with the operator and perform tasks collaborative intelligent robotic excavator not only represents the
automatically, recognizing both gesture and voice commands latest outcome in the field of human-machine collaboration, but
to work accurately.” achieves a new breakthrough, pushing Zoomlion’s application of
The intelligent robotic excavator makes demanding slope cutting human-machine interaction to new heights.”
easy and more accurate. Once an operator inputs the 3D model
of the site and task into the excavator, the machine can conduct a
global analysis and drive to the target site and work automatically,
without the need for professional operators or surveyors.
The company said it also changed traditional command
interaction and developed voice control, which can recognize
hundreds of commands such as “forward, backward and rotate
(at any degree)” or an even more complex “slope cutting”
command through the Automatic Operation Control phone app
independently developed by Zoomlion.
Zoomlion has developed directive operations based on the
requirements of accurate positioning in construction. Moreover,
the company said it has developed a “bionic control mode” for
complex tasks. The operator can guide the excavator to follow Zoomlion said it has developed a robotic excavator that
his/her arm movement. integrates artificial intelligence, intelligent control and other
Zoomlion’s collaborative intelligent robotic excavator is helpful advanced technologies.

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