FLEET MANAGEMENT
item for one customer to justify the Hexagon
FMS.”
Wenco’s System 6 breaking new
ground
The latest release of the Wenco Mine
Performance Suite, part of its System 6 release,
it says breaks new ground with a more flexible
and intuitive design for its equipment monitoring
and control application, Fleet Control. While
Wenco’s Fleet Control and MineVision have
always made it easy for mines to command the
activity of their fleet, recent technological
advances now allow these systems to better
address the real challenges of today’s mining
environments.
Now, Wenco has merged these two
applications into one. Fleet Control now uses a
set of tabbed windows, similar to common
commercial software such as Adobe Photoshop.
Dispatchers can open multiple windows at the
same time, resizing each to concentrate on
particular points of interest. They no longer need
to switch back and forth between a shovel-dump
schematic and a real-time map. Schematics,
maps, equipment lists, and certain reports all
live in the same workspace. Mines have the
freedom to configure a fully customised picture
of current activity and mine details. Dispatchers
can even open several windows of the same
view, setting each at its own zoom level. In this
way, dispatchers can keep close eyes on
particular equipment or locations, while also
maintaining a full view of the mine.
This overhauled design makes fleet
management exceptionally more intuitive for
mine personnel. As each operation sets different
priorities and experiences unique hauling and
loading challenges, it only follows that greater
flexibility gives dispatchers the power to work
more effectively. Beta testers have called this
new design “a leap over what it was”.
Maps now load in rich topographic detail that
dispatchers can easily explore through simple
dragging and scrolling. The new engine also
supports multiple map functions, so dispatchers
can keep several windows of maps open at once
without noticing a drop in performance. Beyond
integrating maps into Fleet Control, System 6
also advances the graphics and mapping
capabilities of Wenco technology as a whole.
System 6 draws on a custom-built graphics
engine that greatly enhances all visual data used
throughout the Mine Performance Suite. Maps
now load in rich topographic detail that dispatchers
can easily explore through simple dragging and
scrolling. The new engine also supports multiple
map functions, so dispatchers can keep several
windows of maps open at once without noticing a
drop in performance. More than ever before,
mapping is central to the Wenco experience.
Data from disparate mining systems populates the Wenco Data Warehouse — fleet management,
maintenance, ERP, and more
Devon Wells at Wenco adds: “We’ve also
renovated the way our mapping system handles
mine activity playbacks. From the mapping
window, dispatchers can now select a timeframe
for a playback, press play, and watch activity
progress as if it were happening in real time.
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