Fabrizi Trucking and Paving Company Inc. started using Komatsu intelligent Machine Control (iMC) equipment about six years ago. From the get-go, they found the i-machines provided an efficiency boost that can’t be beat.
Emilio Fabrizi III, a site foreman and grandson of one of the founders, estimates his crews can do a job twice as fast with an iMC machine than with a conventional dozer or excavator. He’s especially impressed with the PC490i excavator, which his crew is using while preparing the site for a Pulte Homes subdivision. “The 490i cuts right to grade the first time, so we’re not having to go back and do any rework,” he said. There’s no need for a dozer to move fill dirt because the excavator hits grade every time.
The company’s first iMC machine was a D51i, which Fabrizi Trucking used for smaller site work, such as parking lots and building pads. The company later purchased two D61i machines, then a PC360i and PC490i, when Komatsu introduced intelligent excavators.
Fabrizi Trucking, which has been buying Komatsu equipment from Columbus Equipment Company for decades, began using iMC equipment to save labor. They quickly found an additional advantage to intelligent machinery. “It gives operators better information about where they are on the job. They have the plans in the computer module in front of them, and they know where the grades are,” Fabrizi noted. “It’s easier to communicate as a foreman about what’s on the blueprints if the operator has it right in front of him.”
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