About Sitech WA

WESTERN Australian Trimble dealer HL Solutions and Caterpillar dealer Westrac have launched a new joint venture, Sitech WA, to market and support Trimble's machine control and site management technologies.

The new business is part of a growing worldwide network of Sitech dealerships that are the product of local partnerships between Cat and Trimble dealers. Trimble has primary responsibility for managing the Sitech dealer network.

Caterpillar dealers will continue to be the channel for control technologies integrated into new Caterpillar machines while forming strategic relationships with Sitech dealers to provide total site solutions for customers.

Sitech WA general manager Allan Hubble said the new company would operate from HL Solutions' current location. "We will continue to operate out of our premises in Osborne Park, as we have significantly expanded our warehousing, workshop and office facilities to accommodate the additional product and resources needed to cater for this growth," he said.

SITECH WA

Sitech WA is located at 28 Hasler Road, Osborne Park, Western Australia.

Hubble said the company would also continue to sell and install Trimble products on other construction equipment manufacturers' machines. We have had a great relationship with all manufacturers, installing the Trimble GCS series of machine control onto Komatsu, John Deere & Volvo to name a few. We have also integrated the GCS900 system onto Wirtgen & Vermeer surface miners with great results.

The Sitech joint venture will build upon the already successful relationship between Caterpillar and Trimble. In 2002, the companies formed Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies to develop machine control products such as Caterpillar's AccuGrade system and the Trimble Grade Control System product lines.

Last year the companies joined forces to launch VirtualSite Solutions, which develops software solutions for construction project asset management, asset utilisation, productivity monitoring, and health and condition monitoring. Its overriding goal is to drive adoption of Trimble’s Connected Construction Site.

Bryn Fosburgh, Trimble vice president with responsibility for Connected Site, said the VirtualSite Solutions venture would accelerate the introduction of solutions to enable contractors to better manage their fleets and worksites.

"The continued convergence of positioning, wireless and information technologies on the worksite create a data- rich environment that provides maintenance, production and site-related intelligence to allow organizations to make decisions in real time," he said.