3 February 2025, 09:38
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Komatsu has seen a significant increase in smaller customers adopting digital solutions in 2024, marking a broader industry shift towards digital transformation.
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The Smart Construction 3D Machine Guidance system achieved a 37.21% growth in 2024, highlighting strong customer loyalty and repeat business.
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The 3D Machine Guidance system is compatible with both Komatsu and non-Komatsu excavators, aiming to standardize machine guidance technology across the industry.
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Komatsu integrates guidance information with telematic data to create digital twins, enhancing construction workflow efficiency.
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Komatsu acquired iVolve in December 2023 to strengthen its fleet management capabilities, particularly with the Smart Quarry Site system.
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The Smart Quarry Site system, now rolling out in Europe, offers real-time monitoring and actionable data to optimize quarry operations, improving efficiency and safety.
Creating Value Together Through Smart Solutions and Innovation.
Komatsu, a global leader in innovation and technology, wraps up another successful year in its digitalisation business. Once primarily a focus for larger accounts, 2024 has seen a significant shift, with smaller customers increasingly adopting digital solutions to optimise their processes. This positive trend is expected to continue into 2025, marking a broader embrace of digital transformation across the industry. With a focus on accessible and impactful technologies, Komatsu continues to set the benchmark for innovation in the construction and quarrying sectors.
Komatsu’s Smart Construction 3D Machine Guidance Achieves Strong Growth in 2024
Komatsu's Smart Construction 3D Machine Guidance system has witnessed remarkable success in 2024, achieving a year-over-year growth of 37.21%, driven by strong customer loyalty and repeat business. A milestone that highlights Komatsu’s continued efforts to lead the construction industry's digital transformation by offering accessible and effective solutions.
The 3D Machine Guidance system is available for all crawler and wheeled excavators that do not feature Komatsu's Intelligent Machine Control (iMC) technology and boosts also compatibility with non-Komatsu excavators. This with the aim to ensure that more operators can leverage the benefits of guidance technology, regardless of their fleet composition. While the system's cost-effective pricing makes it highly competitive, Komatsu's primary goal is not to necessarily dominate the guidance market but to make machine guidance systems widely accessible and standardized across the industry.
Komatsu's vision extends beyond individual equipment guidance. By integrating guidance information with telematic data, the company enables the creation of digital twins for earthmoving processes. These digital twins provide an accurate, real-time representation of construction operations, enhancing the efficiency of planning, monitoring, and execution. This approach aligns with Komatsu’s broader goal of digitally optimising construction workflows, reducing downtime, and rework.
By commoditising machine guidance and advancing digital capabilities, Komatsu is setting a standard for the construction industry, making cutting-edge technology accessible while driving productivity and sustainability across jobsites.
Komatsu Strengthens Fleet Management Capabilities with iVolve Acquisition
In December 2023, Komatsu announced the acquisition of iVolve, a recognised leader in brand-agnostic fleet management systems. This strategic move builds on successful collaboration between the two companies, reinforcing Komatsu’s leadership position in innovation and its mission of assisting its customers with optimising their mining, quarry or construction processes.
iVolve, with nearly 30 years of experience, has established a reputation for excellence, having worked with industry giants such as Thiess, Carmeuse, Boral, Holcim, and Heidelberg Materials. Now integrated into the Komatsu group, iVolve’s expertise is driving the European rollout of Komatsu’s Smart Quarry Site — a comprehensive, brand-agnostic fleet management system.
Smart Quarry Site equips quarry customers with tools to optimise their operations. The system provides real-time monitoring and actionable data to improve efficiency across the entire quarry. By leveraging the technology, quarries can achieve significant improvements in fuel consumption and production. Enhanced back-office functionalities streamline administrative tasks, while advanced safety alerts, such as overspeed and overload notifications, help ensure a safer working environment.
The European debut of Smart Quarry Site is being spearheaded in partnership with the MHI Group in Germany, with the first installation on a mixed fleet of quarry machines. Although proven in other regions, this launch marks a milestone for its introduction to European markets, offering quarry personal a single system for seamless quarry management, regardless of equipment brand or fleet size.
Source: Komatsu