Kleemann added a stockpile monitoring function to Spective Connect, the company’s mobile application that supports operators on the job.
According to Kleemann, the new function allows Spective Connect users to display the status of material stockpiles at all times. Users can dictate when they want to be informed about a stockpile’s height – for example, if a pile is at 90 percent of its total height.
Kleemann says stockpile monitoring is helpful on extensive terrain and with larger plant trains. Some material stockpiles are not always in an excavator operator’s field of vision, the company adds, and wheel loader operators often have other tasks to handle besides stockpile monitoring.
Spective Connect, however, sends operators push notifications so they can clear full material stockpiles at the appropriate time. Kleemann says this saves unnecessary trips, prevents switch-off when a stockpile is full, and increases productivity.
Additionally, all material stockpile data is recorded and used to build up an algorithm that calculates the time remaining until a stockpile is full.
