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Kenton Williams, U.S. project lead for Honda’s Autonomous Work Vehicle, and Tyler Parker, business optimization manager at construction engineering company Black & Veatch, discuss the development and application of this unique vehicle prototype, including the lessons learned from the field trials in which Black & Veatch is participating. They also look at what lies ahead for the technology and its potential for use on jobsites in future.

Sara Jensen, editor of OEM Off-Highway magazine, talks with Nick Block, Director, Global Marketing & Sales, John Deere Power Systems, about how electrification is continuing to advance in the heavy equipment industry, including how technology improvements are enabling electrification to become more common and helping to increase efficiency.

Eron Usow, Senior Director of Hardware Products at GPS Trackit, shares how asset tracking technology can help address the issue of equipment theft on today’s construction jobsites.

At the Caterpillar Year-end Press Event, Annette Kiesewetter, marketing strategist at SIMFORMOTION, a long-time Caterpillar partner in the development of simulator training technology, highlighted the latest advances, including how virtual reality is being used in tandem with simulators to provide a much more immersive training experience that can better equip operators to get behind the controls of real machines. She also shares how contractors are utilizing simulators in partnership with schools to build the next-generation workforce.

As a relatively young technology in the concrete construction industry, there’s an exciting future in store for the concrete sensor – a device with untapped potential. Editor Jonathan Kozlowski speaks with guests from Giatec, Hilti, and AOMS Technology about the history of the technology and the changes that made it what it is today.

Phil Ogilby, CEO, Stack Construction Technologies, shares how utilizing the company’s cloud-based estimating and takeoff platform is able to lift revenue among its contractor customers an average of 35% by making the process easier and more efficient, enabling more bids to be pushed into the market.