Product Spotlight: Floor Control
At some point in time, a mine or quarry will deal with the challenges of maintaining a proper floor or grade in the midst of operations. Check out our blog: Taking Control: 4 Reasons to Invest in Floor Control to learn more about why Floor Control is so important.
- excess fuel use
- excess tire wear & tear
- excess equipment wear & tear
- inefficient loading
- inefficient hauling
- increased emissions
Whether it’s geologic conditions, loading, and hauling, or Drill and blast performance, many factors contribute to to difficulty in maintaining proper grade within the pit.
Understanding where the issues are coming from is the first step in correcting floor issues. But to know where the issues are coming from, you need good data.
Strayos' Floor Control AI allows for fast & easy issue identification and visualization.
Simply upload your drone images of your pit into Strayos and easily measure floor grades, identify low and high spots, correlate with blast designs and predict floor surfaces from future blast designs.
Floor Control AI lets you keeps operations ahead of the grade issues which can inhibit daily operations.
See Floor Control AI in Action!
Floor Control AI for Monitoring Digging Performance
Whether it is a loader, shovel, bucket wheel excavator, or standard excavator, monitoring grade control while digging has come along way recently. Improvements in technology and smart tools lets operators improve the digging more than ever before, but not every operator is perfect and there are still very skilled operators out there who can dig on perfect grade.
Use Floor Control AI to Monitor Digging Performance
For the rest, there are tools to assist in making sure the pits floors are level.
Strayos allows its users to visualize how the grade is changing over time. Users can compare heat maps over time to identify problem areas, proactively address issues, and monitor progress in correcting those issues.
By overlaying drill and blast data, correlations can be made to which shots or areas within the pit struggle to maintain proper grade, whether from geology or D&B. For example, in the image below, notice how the grade changes by over 8 feet from one end to the other:
Additionally, to track performance from shot to shot, overlaying hole locations allows users to visualize which shots could be correlating to the grade control.
Floor Control AI For Predicting Floors
The best defense is a good offense, and using Strayos Floor Control Prediction AI lets user see what the predicted floor will be before a blast based on drilling data. Read more about it here.
Proactively Address Floor Control Issues From Drill & Blasting Operations by Using Strayos' Floor Control Prediction AI
Whether it calls for backfilling of holes, redrilling, or serving as a QA/QC process to the drilling design, the more data gathered can feed downstream decisions to help improve the operations.
A powerful combination of drill plan design and data from Stayos’ Digital Drill Log App: the Fielder or Measure While Drilling Data from your smart drill tracks drill depths and reflects drill progress in real-time.
Use the data you are already collecting to help monitoring your pit floors and save time and money on your operations!
Strayos aims to provide a comprehensive solution for analyzing complex geology in the mining industry.
By leveraging AI to automatically produce valuable data, engineers, geologists, and blasters have direct access to critical data, ultimately leading to more efficient and effective mining operations.
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