Category: Smart Technology

Manually mixing concrete to the right consistency is no easy thing to do. There’s a plethora of things that can go wrong when trying to obtain the proper specification while in-transit to the job. You add too much water; you don’t add enough water; the mixture is at the wrong temperature – all leading to…

The move toward digital transformation within the Heavy Building Materials industry is inevitable with economic uncertainty, labor shortages, and insufficient communication and productivity putting a dent in bottom-line profits. Data analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT) are two technologies that will shape the construction industry this year and for years to come. The Internet…

Of the dozens of factors that affect the profitability of a ready-mix producer, the cost of lost time and material are among the hardest to quantify. Production reports out of the plant automation systems (or dispatch systems) show the average material tolerance from the concrete batching operations. Any over or underweight batches (and their associated costs or savings) are…