Overhead restrictions
Helping manage machine height near overhead services, structures and restricted vertical clearances.
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Xwatch safety systems
Xwatch safety technology helps manage excavator height, slew and lifting limits, supporting safer operation around restricted and demanding working environments.
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Construction projects increasingly require excavators to operate around overhead services, structures, restricted boundaries and other defined working limits.
Xwatch systems give operators a clear, configurable way to manage machine movement around those restrictions. Synergy Hire uses Xwatch technology across its Hitachi excavator fleet to support customers working in demanding site environments.
Machine movement control
Helps restrict the excavator’s working height around overhead services, structures and defined vertical limits.
Allows left and right slew boundaries to be configured to help keep the machine within a defined operating area.
Where XW5 systems are fitted, rated capacity indication monitors machine load, radius and working position during lifting operations.
Proportional control
Xwatch uses proportional hydraulic control to reduce machine movement as a configured limit is approached, before bringing the movement to a controlled stop.
This gives the operator clear, predictable control around defined working limits while helping reduce abrupt machine movement.
Site applications
Xwatch-equipped excavators can be specified around the working restrictions and safety requirements of the project.
Helping manage machine height near overhead services, structures and restricted vertical clearances.
Defining working boundaries around adjacent infrastructure, traffic routes and constrained site areas.
XW5-equipped machines can provide rated capacity information to support controlled lifting applications.
Talk to the Synergy Hire team about the machine, working restrictions and Xwatch specification required for the site.
Connected safety
Xwatch technology can integrate with Leica machine control to support 3D avoidance zones above and below the working surface.
This allows safety restrictions and digital site information to work together around the excavator.
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Talk to the Synergy Hire team about the machine, application and safety system required for your project.