NEED
Protect Environment, Improve Cost Efficiency with Accuracy
A mining client in Australia was experiencing $1million dollar losses every hour due to oversized material getting lodged in their crushing systems and halting mining productions. I helped my team discover that this was happening as a result of the planning and execution phase during step 3: drilling and loading.
It was clear that there was an opportunity to leverage existing data and build a digital twin that could enhance blast performance and predictability.
Solution
Mobile and web tools that function on and offline to optimize blast performance and mining efficiency.
After working with an elite team of US and Australian subject matter experts within operations, I was able to help design the software tools seen above and direct a team of offshore developers to build them out completely.
• Blast optimizations allowing predictability in size breakage to avoid crusher stoppage—avoiding the initial $1 million/hour production halts.
• Leveraging data to improve blast predictability
• Mine planning
• Compliance reporting automation in both US and Australian markets
• Improved blast planning speeds allowing more clients to be serviced by blast engineering teams
• Desktop and Tablet solutions that work on and offline for users who working in stressful, cold or hot conditions
That's me in a hardhat, doing ethnographic research above!
Results
Saved mines millions in labor and production shortages
•The platform has become a keystone in the connected mining business with room to continue to scale data across multiple disciplines within the field of mining.
•Heavy user adoption allowed clients to stand out against competitors
•Minimized material waist, improving our environment
•New opportunities to build additional products for continued optimization and multi million dollar savings
