Road Building Equipment
Control Solutions
Smarter Controls for Road Building Equipment
Simplify electrical architecture, improve diagnostics, and support more capable machines across your road building equipment portfolio.
Explore HED’s road building equipment solutions below and talk with us to learn how HED can help simplify your machine controls.
Integrated controls for complex road building machines
Road building equipment OEMs need more than individual components. They need a controls platform that helps reduce wiring complexity, coordinate machine functions, and support long-term product growth. HED helps OEMs move from hardwired complexity to CAN-based control systems designed for performance, serviceability, and scalability.
- Why legacy systems create drag:
- Hardwired systems become harder to manage as features and variants grow
- More wiring increases packaging challenges, integration effort, and failure points
- Limited diagnostics can slow field troubleshooting and service response
- Feature growth becomes harder to scale across a product family
- Read more: Outdated systems do not just limit capability—they increase cost at every stage
- Where HED adds value:
- Simplify electrical architecture across complex machines
- Reduce wiring and integration burden
- Improve diagnostics and serviceability
- Support configurable options and future feature growth
- Standardize controls across multiple vehicle platforms
- Talk with HED: Let's discuss your controls strategy
Proven value across key road building equipment
Road building machines such as Pavers, Graders, Rollers, Mixers and Sweepers require coordinated control across work functions, operator inputs, and machine-state conditions in harsh environments.
HED helps OEMs unify those systems in a scalable architecture that supports cleaner builds and smarter function coordination.
Pavers
Coordinate hopper, conveyor, auger, screed, lighting, and operator feedback in one integrated controls architecture.
Graders
Support blade and implement control, steering and articulation-related logic, travel and work modes, and clear machine-status visibility.
Rollers
Manage vibration, water spray, lighting, alerts, and machine-state logic with better diagnostics and fewer wiring-related failure points.
Mixers
Coordinate drum rotation, chute positioning, water systems, load status, lighting, and operator feedback with a scalable controls architecture built for demanding concrete and material delivery applications.
Sweepers
Integrate broom control, vacuum systems, water spray, debris handling, lighting, alerts, and machine-status feedback to support efficient municipal, construction, and road maintenance operation.
Why OEMs Choose HED
HED combines rugged controllers, displays, keypads, modular I/O, and application support to help OEMs build a more integrated machine architecture.
The result is a controls platform that helps reduce engineering burden, support repeatable builds, and improve lifetime serviceability.
- Rugged controllers, displays, and keypads designed for demanding mobile environments
- Full-system design support to streamline procurement and integration
- Long-term product and application support for extended equipment lifecycles
HED helps OEMs reduce harness complexity, standardize architecture, and support advanced machine functions without expanding internal controls resources.
- Reduce engineering burden across paver, grader, and roller programs
- Support faster, more repeatable machine builds across model variants
- Create a more scalable platform for future feature additions and software-based changes
Read: Bottom-line impact of simplifying electrical architecture
Modern paving and road surface equipment needs a control architecture that can coordinate key machine functions, operator inputs, and diagnostics without repeated redesign.
- Support integrated control across work functions and machine states
- Improve operator visibility through built-in diagnostics and status feedback
A better controls architecture does more than simplify design. It can reduce failure points, speed fault isolation, and keep machines available for productive work.
- Reduce troubleshooting and service time in the field
- Improve serviceability through better diagnostics and modular function control
- Lower lifecycle complexity across the platform
Build Your next machine platform with confidence
The next generation of road building equipment will require more than rugged hardware. OEMs need control systems that can support more machine intelligence, more flexible configurations, stronger diagnostics, and easier platform evolution.
HED helps OEMs build that foundation.
Whether you are developing pavers, graders, mixers, sweepers or rollers, HED can help simplify and scale the control system behind the machine. Contact us to find out how.
Related Road Building Equipment Topics
For OEM teams evaluating road building equipment control architecture, these supporting pages take a deeper look at common engineering challenges behind machine function, rugged reliability, platform scalability, and serviceability.
Ready to Simplify Your Next Road Building Platform?
Let’s talk about how HED can help reduce complexity, improve diagnostics, and support a smarter equipment platform.