Declan McGrath was a surveyor by background, but he eventually found himself responsible for machine control for his company's fleet. In a 10-year period, he's gone from little knowledge of machine-control systems to responding to thousands of support calls about machine control. His very first experience with machine control, or "machine guidance," as he often calls it, was in 2004, on a single machine: a Caterpillar D6R dozer with a Trimble Site Vision system. Today, 60 key pieces in the company's fleet of 230 earthmovers are equipped with machine control, and McGrath is firmly entrenched as the company expert, and operating under his third different title. McGrath, who works for the Daracon Group in Newcastle, Australia, a family-owned civil contracting company with 800 employees, told session attendees at the most recent Trimble Dimensions event in Las Vegas how to make a similar journey.
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机译：Declan McGrath曾是背景测量师，但他最终发现自己负责公司车队的机器控制。在10年的时间里，他已经从对机器控制系统的一点了解变成了对成千上万个有关机器控制的支持电话的响应。他在2004年就曾在单台机器上首次使用机器控制或“机器指导”的经验，即一台装有Trimble Site Vision系统的Caterpillar D6R推土机。如今，公司230个推土机车队中的60个关键部件都配备了机器控制装置，而McGrath坚定地成为公司专家，并以他的第三个不同的头衔进行工作。在澳大利亚纽卡斯尔的达拉孔集团（Daracon Group）工作的McGrath是一家拥有800名员工的家族式民用承包公司，他在拉斯维加斯最近举行的Trimble Dimensions活动上向与会的与会者讲述了如何进行类似的旅程。
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