FATIGUE MONITORING & COLLISION AVOIDANCE steering around an incident.
Craig Hoffman, Product Manager of GE Collision Avoidance and Geospatial Systems, who has worked in R & D and marketing of the system since 2000, says GE has a clear roadmap to evolve to Level 9 Intervention Controls— an industry goal, and an international standard tabled by the Earth Moving Equipment Safety Round Table( EMESRT), of which Newcrest is a member. The system being installed at Lihir is currently rated Level 7 Situational Awareness, and already incorporates some Level 8 Advisory Controls capabilities.
Says Sprague,“ When we were doing our review process for different solutions, we didn’ t just land on GE. We started with a group of nine credible solutions and we narrowed the field down. GE’ s roadmap to take us to Level 9 is well defined.”
And Newcrest already had runs on the board with GE CAS. Last year, the miner began installation of GE CAS at its Telfer mine site, which extracts copper and gold in the East Pilbara region of Western Australia. Newcrest intended, once it had verified the benefits of the system in this smaller deployment( 140 vehicles), at a more accessible operation, to continue the technology rollout to Lihir( 250 vehicles).
But before the Telfer installation was fully bedded down, Newcrest decided,“ We were comfortable to the point where we wanted to
move on Lihir even earlier than we’ d initially planned,” says Sprague.“ We’ re delving into the reporting data and observing definite safety improvements. Our senior management team has seen that and has sought to accelerate the deployment to our other sites.”
Before the company began implementing CAS at Telfer, Sprague says,“ We got on the front foot in terms of communications rollout and socialisation.” The company focused not only on the safety benefits of the system, but also the benefits of increased situational awareness to assist heavy-vehicle drivers.
“ Unlike most new cars today, haul trucks generally don’ t have reversing cameras,” explains Sprague,“ so drivers have to back up relying on their mirrors and their experience.” Having greater visibility provided by four robust, wide-view cameras— front, back, left and right— that they can toggle on and off as needed, has been appreciated by heavy-vehicle drivers at Telfer.
GE is working in partnership with Newcrest, and with other technology suppliers to enable collaborative solutions. For example, says Sprague,“ We’ re already taking some of our shovels and dozers and putting in tele-remote capabilities, so the operators will be sitting in a cabin a couple of kilometres away. We can use GE proximity detection to help facilitate safe operation of those vehicles— even though
there’ s not a person in them we don’ t want those pieces of equipment bumping into each other.”
Moduar’ s latest CAS generation and DENSO
Modular Mining Systems, a global leader in realtime mine management solutions, has announced this year its fourth-generation CAS is to feature key technologies from DENSO. The system combines DENSO’ s industry-leading, standards-based vehicle-to-vehicle( V2V) connected vehicle technologies with Modular’ s own software and hardware, enabling the CAS to help increase situational awareness and mitigate collision risk in a mine.
Established in 1949, DENSO is recognised as one of the world’ s largest Tier 1 suppliers of advanced automotive technology, systems, and components. The CAS leverages DENSO’ s proven technologies to provide 360 degree situational awareness. Audible and visual alerts warn operators of potential collisions with other CASenabled equipment, while complex algorithms perform real-time risk assessment calculations to minimise nuisance alarms.
As part of the collaboration, Modular is able to leverage DENSO’ s many years of automotive safety and connected vehicle technology R & D, extensive automotive industry expertise, and rigorous governmental safety testing and qualifications. The system works in several
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