Cat Grade for Excavators (2D & 3D)

Overview

Digging a foundation. Trenching for a water line. Working on a slope. These jobs demand the precision and speed you get from Cat® Grade technologies. Combining advanced guidance with optional automated machine control, Grade helps operators hit grading targets right on the money in fewer passes.

Features

Simple to Use

    
• Cat Grade technolgies and the excavator work together as one integrated system using on-board processors and sensors.
    
• Integrated components are protected from damage, ensuring long life.
    
• Select your desired target depth and target slope and the system will give you real-time guidance on depth, slope, and horizontal distance to grade, with height and depth alerts that indicate target grade or obstacles.
    
• Easily adjust target depth and slope with joystick commands, the touchscreen interface, or the jog dial.
    
• Start digging and simply check grade from inside the cab.
    
• The optional laser catcher with laser transmitter compatibility allows the excavator to move—bench once, reference the laser, and continue digging to grade across the jobsite.

Increase Operator Efficiency

    
• Reduce passes and speed time to complete cuts.
    
• Easy-to-use controls and the ability to quickly adjust depth and grade while keeping your hands on the joysticks allows you to make accurate cuts faster.
    
• Enhance accuracy and productivity when using the in-cab display that indicates bucket position and depth-to-grade.
    
• Use height and depth audio alerts to indicate when the desired grade has been reached to protect from over or undercutting.
    
• Cat Grade technology improves quality and consistency for operators at all experience levels.
    
• Works with Grade with Assist, adding semi-autonomous digging capability and simple-to-use single-lever digging to boost operator efficiency.

Lower Costs and Improve Safety

    
• Minimize costs by reaching target grade quickly and save costs associated with time, labor, fuel, and material consumption.
    
• Integrated components that are protected from damage ensure long life, reliable control, and cost-saving results.
    
• Work confidently without guesswork while cutting and filling to exact specifications without under or overcutting.
    
• Receive height and depth alerts when working near obstacles that could damage your excavator and cost you money (E-fence).
    
• Work safer with fewer ground personnel checking grade in the trench or around your excavator.
    
• Reduce operator fatigue by utilizing semi-autonomous digging - Grade with Assist. 

Cat Grade with Assist

    
• Cat Grade Assist for excavators automates boom and stick movements for more accurate cuts with less effort.
    
• Grade Assist uses machine position sensors and operator defined depth and slope parameters to activate single-lever digging.
    
• Types of automated assistance available:

    
1. Grade Assist – Takes over boom and bucket functions to maintain desired depth and slope. The operator sets the target grade and controls stick speed with one hand.
    
2. Bucket Assist – Maintains bucket angle and keeps the cut accurate in sloping, leveling, fine grading and trenching applications.
    
3. Boom Assist – Automatically raises the boom to keep the excavator from lifting off the ground when digging, lifting or rotating under load.
    
4. Swing Assist – Automatically stops excavator swing at defined points when truck loading and trenching, reducing fuel usage and improving cycle times.
    
5. Tilt Assist – Takes over bucket angle movements to automatically maintain the desired slope.

Cat Grade with 2D

    
• Cat Grade with 2D is an indicate-only system that provides elevation and slope guidance to the operator.
    
• Informs the operator of the distance above, below or on-grade between the bucket cutting edge and the benchmark point.
    
• Increases operator efficiency and productivity when digging and grading basements, footings, foundations, utility trenches, slopes, drainage ditches, and other applications.

Cat Grade with 3D

    
• Grade with 3D allows operators to grade complex designs on multiple machines across a jobsite using real-time satellite positioning guidance.
    
• GNSS receivers on the excavator and Real Time Kinematic (RTK) positioning provide the accuracy needed to grade three dimensional designs.
    
• An additional high-resolution touchscreen monitor enables operators to easily view, input, and edit grade plans from the operator’s seat.
    
• Grade with 3D is compatible with radios and base stations from Trimble, Topcon, and Leica.

Upgrade Your Capabilities

    
• Cat Grade Connectivity* is an upgrade subscription for Cat Grade with 3D that effectively eliminates the need for additional base stations on any job site within a cellular network.
    
• A Grade Connectivity subscription adds internet access via cellular connectivity to individual machines for easy connection to Virtual Reference Station (VRS) networks for correction services.

VisionLink® Integration

    
• VisionLink® helps you measure, monitor, and manage your assets to maximize productivity - on or off the jobsite.
    
• VisionLink is a scalable, cloud-based application that collects and summarizes machine telematics and jobsite data from all your equipment - regardless of the manufacturer.*
    
• The platform provides users with actionable information, including idle time, fuel burn, location, material moved, and more. 
    
• Users can access information using a smartphone, tablet, or desktop device.

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