Technology & Innovation
Asplundh are world leaders in provide innovative vegetation management solutions to the global utilities industry. Asplundh believe that both local knowledge and global expertise should be harnessed to provide innovation for local industry. We see ourselves as both an innovation partner and an innovation developer, working with our clients to design and implement technology and machinery across its operations.
Asplundh has access to the resources and innovation of the world's largest vegetation management organisation operating globally and in every state of the US. Accordingly we have access to a plethora of innovative machinery, vehicles and accessories, tested under every extreme of condition and developed to be as cost efficient as possible.
We have numerous specialty expertise, software and vehicles including aerial cutting, line flying and 3D vegetation modelling and analysis to name a few. Moreover, over 80 years of testing has ensured even our basic EWPs are incredibly productive, safe and fuel efficient, and as we make them ourselves we can, and do, continually improve their design.
Asplundh believes in the value of cross industry and cultural innovation and often looks externally for business solutions with vegetation management application. For instance, we believe that new innovations from the area of Quality Control should be examined and accordingly we are researching the application of six-sigma methodology in efficient vegetation management
Asplundh has now developed integrated management systems with real-time communication mechanisms including GPS and tracking to ensure all vehicles are accounted for and all chip piles identified and monitored, more importantly our information on our actions and vegetation clearances is instantly accessible through an online portal available to our clients.
We have recently tested a new Vegetation Data Management system incorporating a central database and real-time input from external sources including PDA, VMC and airborne inputs. We have developed and perfected tablet scoping enabling instant access to customer databases and requirements and the ability to access our vegetation database to update existing information. As all of our work is GPS based our ability to quickly audit is second to none.
Asplundh have also implemented the use of vehicle ‘black boxes' allowing unprecedented access and fine-tuning to our vehicles, crews and schedules. We can instantly know start times, end times, boom movements, idling time etc. More importantly we can and do use this to manage our emissions and deliver a more environmentally sustainable vegetation management solution.
To manage many of these innovations, Asplundh has developed a dashboard system enabling us to manage on a daily and weekly basis our adherence to our clients contract requirements, our reduction in emissions, our improvements in production efficiency and our financial strength.