To help meet worker shortages and increase jobsite productivity, Komatsu is committed to offering tools that help customers best deploy their workforce and optimize operations. With machines that help quickly upskill workers and technology that aims to improve efficiency, at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2023, Komatsu showcased how it can help customers optimize their workforce and create value.
PC900LC-11
Designed for heavy construction, demolition, material handling, deep sewer, water, large mass excavation and mining/quarry, the PC900LC-11 combines exceptional power with digging capabilities. Its performance-enhancing technology includes a KomVision camera system and optional Smart Construction 3D guidance and payload monitoring.
PC360LCi-11 intelligent excavator
This powerful and highly productive 80,000+-pound intelligent excavator features the latest iMC 2.0 technology to instill predictability into operations. The new tilting bucket can help maximize efficiency and productivity. With fully integrated grade assist, the PC360LCi-11 adjusts to the operator's experience level, while the stroke-sensing hydraulic cylinders deliver critical precision and real-time positioning ― key to utility applications. From mass excavation to finished grading, this powerful excavator can handle large jobs, and is equally adept at small- and mid-sized projects.
Intelligent dozers: D39PXi-24, D51PXi-24, D71PXi-24
Machine logic allows Komatsu's iMC 2.0 dozers to continuously learn the terrain and make calculated decisions for the next pass, helping lessen the skills gap between new and seasoned operators. Tilt steering control automatically tilts the blade to maintain straight travel during rough dozing, reducing operator steering input.
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Michael Roth
Editor
Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.