With government’s impetus on mining and infrastructure, the Construction Equipment (CE) industry in India is upbeat. Anticipating strong growth, the CE industry is also working on turning out new machines that are efficient, compact and comfortable. Claim industry sources that work area for CE is getting more and more confined, giving rise to compact machines. Such machines eliminate the need for complex manoeuvring, they added. Yet another development is the assistance functions like the CAT Grade with Assist system developed by Caterpillar. It provides an assistance function with semi-automatic shovel control for chain excavators. Mentioned industry sources that assistance or automated controls are elevating the level of comfort. This could also result in higher productivity and higher efficiency, they said.