Trimble Insight

Productivity data is often late, unreliable or requires a manual process to gather. Managers often rely on tally sheets, spreadsheets or in-house systems to manage quarry operations, but this isn’t always efficient to manage large data sets. It can be difficult for managers and operators to make informed decisions during the shift that positively influences productivity or production. Now there…

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Pacific Northwest Not Built For Heat

July 1, 2021 – Very interesting story on Wired. On Sunday, as temperatures hit 105, the concrete beneath State Route 544 outside Everson, Wash., began to do what concrete does when it gets really hot: It expanded. By 5 p.m., the asphalt above it had softened and cracked, leaving a thick, humped seam across two lanes. To the south, in Portland, Ore., a road on the…

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