Being productive in mining is crucial for obtaining new contracts, ensuring a cost-effective business and above all maintaining profits. In this blog Loadscan have made a contribution helping businesses within the mining industry use technology to increase productivity.
Here it is broken down for you:
Staying on top of several factors will help to ensure good productivity but these practices need to be executed regularly in order to stay ahead of the game and keep the materials going out.
Key factors to watch are:
- Optimum accuracy in measuring payloads
- Monitoring volumes on entry and exit
- Operating on real time feedback
- Working to full capacity
- Track every load
Just by using these factors everyday, your productivity can be at its best and your business will have a stale foothold in the mining industry.
Optimum Accuracy
Working on estimates is a poor way of logging payloads so to gain the most accurate measurement you need to be using the ‘drive – through’ method. As a direct but no contact measurement method, this concept works by trucks driving directly beneath a scanner.
Accuracy is obtained by the system comparing empty and loaded data profiles of any vehicle. Results of the ‘drive – through’ method prove that the accuracy is as fine as 1% difference.
Measuring At Both Ends
In addition to using the ‘drive – through’ method of measurement, other measurements should be taken at entry and exit for each vehicle.
Conducting these measurements eliminates any materials being counted twice. Haulback material can often be left behind on a truck and then recounted, so by making measurements at both ends of the cycle this material is not counted multiple times.
Give Real Time Feedback
Accurate feedback is just as important as accurate measurements of payloads.
Using in-cab consoles, drivers of the trucks can relay important information like operator details, destination times and load types. These details can be accumulated and then used to further enhance productivity of the mine and of course make more profits for the firm.
Full Capacity
Using fully integrated methods of taking the calculations mentioned above, it soon becomes clear that there are ways of enhancing capacity and how to maintain that level of output.
Spending time with employees can educate them in how to consistently produce full capacity payloads which will result in moving more materials for the same cost. A cost-effective business is a profitable one.
Get Tracking
Strategic planning and movement procedures can be altered for the better when using real time tracking. Having accurate travel times and operation details can help boost efficiency in the mine and get materials where they need to be faster.
