Enhanced Efficient Machines: Ensuring Growth For All Applications
“The ambitious target of laying 30 to 40 Km national highway per day would push for Digitization of information for quick & informed decision making. This trend coupled with the ecosystem created by Government under the digital India program is motivating equipment manufacturers to offer technologies so that the customers can extract required information at the time & place they need.”
How construction equipment (CE) is transforming the road and highways in India?
Road is the major driving force behind the robust growth of CE industry in past 2 years, Excavator industry in India grew by around 45% in 2016 over 2015 and the growth in 2017 has been around 22% over the same period in 2016. Usage pattern data of Speed of road construction and the push for concrete roads by NHAI owing to its enhanced life & low maintenance has skewed the usage pattern of excavators towards stone quarry, earthwork & lime stone quarrying. Around 20% excavators are currently being used for stone & lime stone quarrying in the country, the percentage goes to more than 50% if we include road & related sectors.
We are of the opinion that it is time for other sectors like irrigation, urban development and railways to start showing results on the ground so that the equipment segment and usage pattern is balanced which would also ease out the pressure from supply side as demand currently is skewed towards 20 ton class creating a situation of excess inventory in other segment and shortage in this segment of excavators.
Brief one of your equipment that is transforming road and highways in India?
Thanks to our customer driven product customization and process improvement initiatives, we sensed the need to upgrade our 7 series machines to SMART series Modern Premium machines, Growth of Hyundai Construction Equipment India has been better than the industry. This additional growth helped us in consolidating our position as number 2 excavators supplier in the country. Our R215 L SMART excavator has been one of the top selling excavator during 2017, this product has been the favorite of customers in all segment of application. We have also received Yellow Dot award for this product in the category of best earthmoving product of the year.
Sensing the need for concrete road making, Hyundai Construction Equipment India has introduced R140 W -9S, a 14 ton class wheeled Excavator for concrete road application. The machine is introduced with the concept of Think Beyond the backhoe loader. The unique benefit of using a wheeled excavator in place of backhoe loader in concrete laying process at PQC stage is its 360 degree reach, higher power and bucket capacity to enhance speed, efficiency and overall cost of concrete laying.
Hyundai R140 W-9S is a 9 series excavator equipped with enhanced safety features, Hi Mate system for remotely monitoring the performance of machine and unique CAPO system for improving fuel efficiency of the machine. The machine is also equipped with enhanced operator comfort features like fully adjustable premium suspension seat, air conditioner ducting, hot & cold box & wider LCD cluster for mode selection and offers low maintenance cost as the schedule maintenance of machine is done at extended operating hours.
What kind of technological advancement is taking place in road CE to change the scenario?
The Hyundai Wheeled Excavators are fitted with unique remote management system, “Hi Mate”, which would help customers to access machine operating information, service & maintenance alerts and take corrective action without being physically present near the machine. Fleet management system of Hi-Mate would enable machine to machine communication to improve operational efficiency. This would be an app based monitoring hence customers can monitor the machine performance, operating parameters & alerts with the help of his mobile phone.
The machine is also fitted with self-diagnostic system for ease of maintenance and safety features like Anti Restart system , Automatic engine over heat prevention & Auto warm up system. The 9 series updated CAPO (Compute Aided Power Optimization) system ensures enhanced fuel efficiency of the machine under all type of applications.
Bharatmala project is aiming at boosting road connectivity in India. What opportunities are you looking out of the same?
As told earlier , Excavators are the primary machines required for excavation of soil for road making , Bharatmala being a road network around the land borders of India , would certainly help us in our business growth. Hyundai Construction Equipment India with its 31 Dealers and 200 outlets spread across the country would ensure timely delivery & after sales support to the machines supplied to customers working for this project and by doing so, we would be doing our bit in building a new India.
