When John Deere Construction & Forestry began engineering a new production-class crawler dozer to replace its then-flagship 1050J model, the new machine’s design centered on four key performance ...

If machines regularly reach average component lives, the best strategies may be either to replace units before second repairs cause hourly costs to jump, or to work the machines more hours per year ...

Komatsu banks on the growing acceptance of 3D machine control with full lines of "intelligent" excavators and dozers, plus an exclusive RC option. At the time it launched its first intelligent Machine ...