Case Study:Optimisation of Drill & Blast
Industry
Coal Mining
Region
North America
Location
British Columbia Canada
Customer Profile
Truck and shovel open pit operations with 7 electric rope shovels
Application
P&H 4100 electric rope shovel
Managing loading equipment performance and mining cost are complicated, given the ever-changing complexity of the environment, performance of the equipment, and hundreds of people interactions. Mine was eager to reduce variability in shovel performance while reducing mining cost through optimizing drill and blast practices.
RIGIDprecision™ platform from RIGID ROBOTICS provided scalable real-time data from shovel which was sent to the cloud where an advanced Digging Condition Index was geospatially generated in near real-time from the data stream. Our application then provided D&B engineers with direct insight into D&B optimization sought.
3 months (October – January)
Enabling the adjustment of blast pattern designs for optimal results
Allow to link drill and blast quality to shovel productivity and machine health
Reducing use of explosives, blasting costs, and equipment wear
Helping to maximize productivity of shovels
Lessening impact on environment
10-15% Powder Factor Reduction
10% reduction in dig time
$0.5-5M p.a cost reduction based on varying baseline