Bernd Walterscheid

Digitization of the construction site as a USP for Wirtgen

With over 15 years of experience in the field of IoT, the Digital Enablers implement digitization solutions for their partners across the entire value chain. Their business philosophy is based on personality, reliability and trust – and so is their cooperation with Wirtgen GmbH. The focus of this podcast is cold milling machines. Wirtgen is the world market leader in this niche and its sub-segments. The use case is about the implementation of the so-called Wirtgen Performance Tracker (WPT) – a system that digitally records (live) data on the construction site, networks machines with each other and revolutionizes the entire business process on this basis. With the WPT, Digital Enabler support Wirtgen in the transformation to a fully automated data infrastructure on the construction site. The WPT automatically collects process data on site, such as job site progress, milling depth, optimum truck loads, downtimes or milling pattern quality. Part of the cooperation was to link the existing Wirtgen IoT system, the post-processor, to the new performance tracker. In this way, it was possible to send all relevant data as final job reports to the appropriate recipients in a fully automated and individualized manner – without any additional manpower. The success topics of predictive maintenance, artificial intelligence and digital twins are also mentioned in this podcast episode. The construction machines of the future will become smarter and more digital: At the end, Wirtgen looks into the networked future and sees promising approaches in soil stabilization, service mining, cold recycling and in the field of concrete slipform pavers. The Wirtgen Performance Tracker is the ideal complement to the Wirtgen Group’s telematics solution WITOS and offers transparent determination of milling performance.