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about 1,000 litres for the Caterpillar 797s, more
than enough to perform several haul cycles. Even
with these restrictions, though, the producer has
extended the time between fueling session s to 16
hours. Every three runs for fuel, they have gained
an additional free fueling session.
At a refueling rate of every 16.5 hours, trucks
spend approximately 221 hours a year fueling.
The oil sands producer provided an average of 25
minutes per fueling session. Previously, the site’s
Caterpillar fleet spent approximately 279 hours a
year fueling – a total time savings per truck of 58
hours, almost 2.5 days of production per truck
per year. The Komatsu 930E trucks gained even
more uptime – an estimated increase of 164
hours per year, or almost a week per truck.
The results from the trial of Wenco Fuel
Dispatch at the oil sands producer prompted
managers to purchase a full licence for the
system within three days of configuration. Since
then, Wenco says that the site has continued to
use the system to great effect, producing a
quantifiable return on investment by gaining over
three additional net operating hours per fueling
session.
Modular continuous enhancement
Modular Mining Systems says that continuous
evaluation of, and enhancements to, the products
in Modular’s IntelliMine® Mine Management
platform – the DISPATCH®, MineCare®,
ProVision®, and MineAlert® solutions – as well as
the MasterLink Wireless Network solution, have
led to the company having deployments at more
than 250 sites, including 18 of the 20 largest
mines in the world. DISPATCH Fleet Management
system (FMS) customers have reported
productivity improvements ranging from 5-34%,
with an average improvement of 11%, for more
than 35 years.
Modular recently expanded its flagship FMS to
include the Active Tire Management system
(ATMS), giving mines the ability to actively
manage tyre temperature and pressure in real
time, thus reducing equipment downtime due to
tyre maintenance issues. The FMS interfaces with
OEM tyre monitoring applications, such as the
Michelin Earthmover Maintenance System. The
DISPATCH system’s optimisation algorithm
incorporates the corresponding tyre control
actions into its real-time decision-making logic to
prevent premature tyre failure. Tyre expenses
represent one of the top three expenditures in
most mining operations, with unplanned tyre
maintenance accounting for an average of 10% of
all maintenance time.
The ATMS recently demonstrated a marked
reduction in the number of tyre-related events at
a leading iron ore mine in Brazil. The results were
measured using the number of tyre-related
events received over a four week period. During
this timeframe, an
average of 48% fewer
tyre-related events
occurred per shift as
compared to
comparable events
observed before ATMS
activation.
The new DISPATCH
Underground Fleet
Management system is
designed to address the
unique challenges of the
underground mining
environment (see
underground section for
case study). The latest evolution of the DISPATCH
Underground FMS, released in Q2 of 2015, gives
mines a higher degree of visibility into
development and production activities taking
place below the surface. Some of the many new
features and system enhancements include
sdvanced development process management;
comprehensive active task management; expanded
workflow automation; and updated desktop- and
mobile application user interfaces; as well as increased
flexibility, configurability and adaptability; and
heightened data capture capabilities.
The MineAlert® Collision Awareness System
(CAS) monitors and notifies operators of
potential vehicle-to-vehicle collisions based on
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The latest version of Modular’s maintenance
management product, MineCare 3, represents
the company’s initial foray into the cloud-based,
Software as a Service (SaaS) arena
intelligent path-prediction algorithms, helping to
increase operator awareness and reduce
equipment damage. The system addresses more
than 100 of the most common vehicle collision
scenarios, including forward path, take-off,
speed limit violations, overtaking, and
intersections through the use of a redundant,
multi-layered sensing approach that utilises
ranging sensors and GPS receivers. These
technologies work together to determine a
vehicle’s collision risk based on the travel speed,
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