Aptella recently signed a contract with Carlson machine guidance, enabling Aptella to offer Carlson machine guidance and fleet management solutions for the mining, quarrying, dredging and landfill operations in South East Asia.

“We are delighted to be able to offer our customers this complete range of machine guidance options,” said Martin Nix, Managing Director at Aptella. “Carlson has an open system architecture which enables the products to work on most makes and models of mine equipment,” he added. “We look forward to working with Carlson Machine Control to deliver the right combination of solutions to help increase productivity, improve safety and machine utilisation,” said Martin.

“Aptella has been an exclusive Carlson Machine Control distributor since 2013 for Australia and New Zealand having made significant inroads in mining and solid waste landfills,” said Randy Noland, Vice President and Director of Machine Control, Carlson Machine Control. “The expansion into South East Asia headed by Mike Forrest, Executive Director for SEA, is a natural market progression. Indonesia, has ramped up their coal production becoming the world’s fourth-largest producer. We look forward to working with Aptella in the mining, quarry and landfill markets providing a strong value proposition in service, support and pricing,” said Randy.

Aptella will be offering Carlson’s complete range of machine guidance solutions for mining operations, including Carlson Grade™ for dozers, graders, scrapers and other surface grading machinery; Shovel Grade™ for excavators & shovels; Drill Grade™ for drilling machinery, and TruckPro™, which monitors position and load information across the truck fleet.

For on-site management and inspection, Aptella will be offering Carlson Grade Supervisor™, which delivers an integrated 3D and GNSS solution for mine and quarry surveyors and supervisors. For monitoring from the office, Aptella will offer Carlson Fleet Manager Office™, which enables real time communication between managers and with multiple machines. The software can also be used to generate a wide range of data from machine performance to progress reporting.

For landfill applications, Carlson offers Landfill Grade™ which can be used across compactors, dozers, graders and scrapers to increase compaction and reach optimum density faster.

For dredging applications, Carlson provides Excavator Grade™, for long reach excavators, barge heading, and cable cranes, etc. supporting multiple sensor types such as line riders, flow meters and encoders. Multiple attachments are also supported including finger grabbers with open & close visualisation.

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