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Industry interaction PUTzMEISTER CONCRETE MAChINES PVT LTD – INDIA New Generation Concrete Pumps Mr. Wilfried Theissen, Managing Director of Putzmeister India shares with Built Expressions about company’s focus on offering easy maintenance and environment-friendly products. BE: What are the innovations happening in the BE: As leaders in the feld, can you briefy describe construction equipment sector to reduce the the range of products and services you offer, being impact on natural environment? segment specifc? We at Putzmeister are continuously striving to Putzmeister’s new range of eSmart concrete pumps improve our products on all aspects like: safe and easy requires considerately less hydraulic oil. This was made operation, highest machine availability and reliability, possible due to Putzmeister’s intense Research and easy maintenance, and of course as environment friendly Development department (based in Germany). This has as possible. Our latest generation of 32,36 and 42 m boom saved repeatedly substantial amounts of operational costs pumps and our Eco friendly stationary pumps that have year after year for all our customers. And with the present been specially designed to achieve just that. economical crunch, it’s a huge sign of relief for both the We have reduced the overall machine weight by customer and OEMs. more than 10% thereby considerably reducing the fuel These latest eSmart machines with HMI (Human consumption. Our new generation boom and stationary Machine Interface) control panel have Ergonic Graphic pumps are ftted with the new OPS system, which helps to Display (EGD), which allows the operator to determine cut down on operational costs which will help the customers operating status and diagnosing faults of the machine in real from burning a hole in their pockets. time. The EGD performance displays various parameters like pumping hours, concrete output, hydraulic oil temperature, BE: What way according to you, construction fault diagnosis matrix, stroke counter, engine speed etc., mechanization can optimize productivity and which makes it possible to monitor the pump continuously. probably is the only solution to encounter the skill This system reduces the restrictions in hydraulic oil fow; shortage? and as a result, the heat generation in this hydraulic system Even though a lot is going on in India, the pace of is minimized and thus saves recurring maintenance cost. construction is still very slow. The only way to increase the These machines also come with advanced safety features speed and quality of the construction and therefore meet making it safer to operate. The Emergency Switch on the the needs and requirement of an ever increasing population control panel is very easy to access. It stops the entire is mechanisation. operation of the machine when pressed in case of an In India more than 80% of the concrete is still emergency. The RSA – which is the Grill safety switch that transported manually by unskilled labour. With the keeps the pump and agitator from working if the hopper increasing number of projects in the pipeline even Indian grill is open, thus avoiding accidents and ensuring the safety construction companies will run short of labour and will of the operator. have to turn to mechanisation. The new Open Pump System (OPS) design will drastically PG 76 Built Expressions Vol: 3 Issue: 11 November 2014