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Carlson ProTools Software |
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Productivity
Tools, better known as ProTools, is Carlson Software's machine
guidance performance analysis product. Your process and equipment
performance can be monitored and analyzed to gain advantage over
your competitors. ProTools aides in optimizing equipment
performance by providing remote viewing of real-time or historic
information for all of your earthmoving equipment. Full 3-D
playback provides valuable insight into how the numbers were
generated for the user-defined reports, which allow for tracking
any aspect, including push lengths and slopes, rehandle, and
volumes per hour.
Combined with Telescope or SiteNet,
real-time display of location, volumes, and other priceless
statistics are made available to the office. Supported machine
guidance products include: Carlson's AutoGrade and Leica's
Dozer2000. |
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Productivity Tools is the main
program used to calculate volumes
of material moved. The volumes are
calculated from any start time to
any end time in the database, and
for any or all rovers. The
radio-linked position data from
the heavy equipment is analyzed to
determine production rates.
Productivity Tools may operate on
an "as-needed" basis, or in an
automatic mode. Combined with
Telescope, location and volumes
are displayed in real-time.
Productivity Tools feature
real-time remote viewing and full
3D playback of earthmoving
equipment. In addition,
user-defined reports on any aspect
including push lengths and slopes,
rehandle and volumes per hour are
included in the arsenal.
Furthermore, ProTools permits
report packages to be created, and
presented in formats suiting
different departments. This means
that executives can have
information, such as a summary of
production reports, at their
fingertips.
Moreover,
operator actions can be assessed
to bring all operators'
performance to the same level.
ProTools is a software package
that aides in "best practice"
evaluations. One company used
Productivity Tools to analyze if a
straight push or a fan push was
more productive and also looked at
what length of push was most
productive. This led to optimized
practices, which meant a more
lucrative bottom line.
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Benefits |
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Real-time analysis - great
for 'Just-In-Time'
operations |
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Executives have data at
fingertips |
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Analyze single or multiple
vehicles |
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Flexible reporting for
different departments |
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Increased productivity |
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Aides "Best-Practice"
evaluations |
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Low cost alternative |
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Easy to learn |
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On-site support |
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In the ProTools
main screen, the
plan view is
displayed on the
left with vehicle
tracking displayed
in varying colors.
Each color
represents a
different activity
time block. So,
the purple and
blue indicate
different periods
of work.
The right
side contains the
legend of colors
and allows the
user to toggle
periods (off/on)
from the
visibility box
above the colored
bar. So, if only a
certain shift for
the day was of
interest, all of
the other items
could be turned
off to clearly see
the period of
interest. The
QuickLoad button
at the lower right
allows the user to
connect to rover
units through
Carlson Telescope
to get updated
information.
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Values that can be set in this screen include:
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Blade Width |
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Minimum Depth |
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Push Minimum Cut % |
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Max Push Depth |
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Shift Durations |
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Maximum Distance Between Logged Points |
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| In addition, a grid building activity must be set in this screen before work can begin. The activities can be customized by typing each one in the memo field at the bottom of the screen. |
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| A unique feature of Productivity Tools is that a series of events can be watched in real-time or historic information can be replayed in the sequence that it actually occurred. As the animation is taking place, the location of the vehicle moves on the map, the cut/fill bars change appropriately on the right, and the report at the bottom of the screen is populated. |
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| The series of events can be paused, slowed, or speeded, depending on what the user is trying to view. Some of the items being reported include: percentage of time system on, idle time, cut yards, fill yards, number of pushes, average push length, and cumulative push and travel lengths. All of these categories are available for analysis for the following breakdowns: on the left: by hour; and on the right: for the last half hour, hour, shift, week, and month. |
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To the left is a special graph, which shows the elevation change over time for the heavy equipment. It informs at quick glance what level the vehicle might have been working on for the day or the progress that was made. |
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| The ProTools profile screen aides in determining optimum push trajectories. The vehicle is displayed in plan view on the left with the red line indicating the profile section. The cut/fill bars are displayed on the right with the other controls, and the profile view is show on the bottom of the screen. |
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| The blue line on the profile indicates the current position of the vehicle on the section. Red indicates the places that were cut and the green the places that were filled on the pass. This feature is helpful when evaluating operator performance during "best-practice" selection. |
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User-defined reports on any aspect including push lengths and slopes, rehandle and volumes per hour are included in the ProTools arsenal. Any element of data can be expressed as a factor of another for the chart at the screen bottom.
Productivity Tools permits report packages to be created and presented in formats suiting different departments. |
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The graph above displays productivity versus the time of day. This operation tended to get much better production during daylight hours than at night.
Below is a chart of End Slope and Productivity over time. As the job progressed, the end slope decreased, and productivity increased. This information was used to start changing procedures which were monitored and fine-tuned until they saw production rise by 40%. |
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To view movies on using ProTools, please follow the links below:
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