Topcon’s 3D-MC2 system doubles dozer finishing speed

At Conexpo in Las Vegas in March, Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) unveiled its new machine control system – Topcon’s 3D-MC2  dozer system – which can double dozer speed for final finishing, while still providing unprecedented smoothness. Ray O’Connor, Topcon president and CEO, described the 3D-MC2 breakthrough “as tearing down the last barrier in regard to increasing job site productivity: speed.” “There’s never been anything like this in construction machine automation,” he said. “Topcon’s 3D-MC2 technology speeds up the position calculation by a factor of 10 from today’s systems, allowing for faster positioning in real time, which means the machine can be controlled to design grade at much faster speeds than any other system.” According to O’Connor, this is