• Home

drilling

A collection of 34 posts

2025

Three Tools for 2025 to Enhance D&B Performance

As we look back on 2024, we wanted to highlight the three most valuable tools that all D&B operations could use to help improve their work rolling into 2025.

Strayos Strayos
drone surveying

Webinar Summary: Enhancing Drilling & Blasting with Geospatial Data

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) connect data to maps. Join Elijah Williams, Senior Solutions Engineer, as he demonstrates how to integrate GIS data into your quarrying, drilling, & blasting workflows.

Strayos Strayos
drilling

Webinar Summary - Digital Drill Logging

Mike Trujillo from WESCO and Nick Cunningham from Petra Drilling & Blasting discuss the challenges with implementing digital drill logs (DDL) in their operations as well as the advantages due to the ROI they've realized because of their efforts.

Strayos Strayos
blasting

Customer Spotlight: Petra Drill & Blast and the Importance of Data in Drilling

Petra Drill & Blast's Nick Cunningham has alot to say about the Importance of Data in Drilling Operations and Ultimately it's Impact on Drill & Blast operations in quarrying, mining, and construction.

Strayos Strayos
blasting

Product Spotlight: Floor Prediction AI

Strayos’ Floor Control Prediction tool provides users with a predicted floor surface based on actual borehole depths.

Strayos Strayos
drones

3 Reasons to Use Post-drill Quality Control for Blast Optimization

Drill hole detection AI automates the QA/QC process and generates pattern deviation in a few seconds rather than hours of manpower. Drones can capture images of benches to build 3D models. All this in a fraction of the time while keeping personnel off the bench.

Strayos Strayos
3D model

Webinar Summary- Reading the Rock

Technical Specialist and Solutions Engineer Elijah Williams discusses how to accommodate rock characteristic information into your blast design. From drone to drill- adding data to your blast design creates safer more effective blasts.

Strayos Strayos
team

The Story of Eli

I chose to join Strayos because I saw a unique opportunity within the industry to grow a platform that I saw huge potential in. I want to share the technology that helped me in my own work.

Strayos Strayos
blasting

Customer Spotlight- Aggregate Resources Industries

ARI, Inc, has dedicated itself to providing the best service possible to its customers and employees. To further that goal it has embraced technology and digitalization to improve operational efficiency, safety, and drill & blast outcomes.

Strayos Strayos
digitilization

Accurate Drill Logging Using Digital Field Tools - Webinar Summary

In this webinar: learn how the digitalization of drill logs can unlock significant value for mines, quarries and contractors. Then see a demonstration of the new mobile drill log app: Strayos Fielder.

Strayos Strayos
digital transformation

The State of Digitalization in the Drill & Blast Industries - Webinar Summary

The drilling and blasting industry is on the verge of unprecedented transformation. New developments in technology have provided all the building blocks for more automated and self-optimizing operations. Now, the biggest challenge is putting them all together.

Strayos Strayos
drone surveying

A New Workflow to Increase Drilling Accuracy Using PPK Drones and GPS Smart Drills - Webinar Summary

Designing and implementing a precise drill plan is critical for achieving an optimal blast outcome. In recent years, GPS Navigation Drills have enabled pinpoint accuracy for drilling operations. However, the major blocker for

Strayos Strayos
drilling

Webinar Summary- Optimizing Fragmentation Using Measure While Drilling and 3D Analytics Data

Traditionally, drilling data has been difficult to capture and combine with blast design information. Now, new technologies like 3D image analysis and Measure While Drilling(MWD) data allow blasters and site managers to "see" inside the bench in ways never before possible.

Strayos Strayos
ai

Smarter Drilling: 3 Tools Empowering Drilling & Blasting

Knowing the geology of the bench and the true locations of the as drilled holes allow drillers to optimize their drilling performance and allow blasters to achieve better fragmentation, better ore body control, control for fly-rock, vibration and back break and get their best blast ever.

Strayos Strayos
data

How Drone Data is Empowering Boretracking Operations

Traditionally, the logistical challenges of boretraking have made it impractical for many companies to implement across all of their sites. Maine Drilling & Blasting has leveraged drone data and Strayos' AI to overcome these challenges and expand their bore-tracking program.

Strayos Strayos
ai

What's Next?

We've decided these 5 tested techs will ROCK the drilling & blasting industry in 2021.

Strayos Strayos
blasting

Connecting the Solutions- Mining & Quarrying Companies Need an AI Powered Dashboard

Data silos are a well known obstacle for the quarrying industry. Ravi Sahu and Kevin Vonesh have an answer- an AI powered Solutions Dashboard.

Strayos Strayos
3D model

TLDR- AI's Explosive Impact in Drill and Blast

Mining Magazine EMEA editor Craig Gutherie spoke with Strayos CEO Ravi Sahu about the need for AI to assist drillers and blasters with creating the best shot possible.

Strayos Strayos
drones

Drones, Drills, & Data

Three technologies enabling massive improvements in drilling are Drones, AI, and smart drills. Used individually, they give a huge advantage, but when combined, they allow the modern driller to accomplish a level of insights never before seen.

Strayos Strayos
startups

Personnel Brief: Kimberly Sahu

Strayos Strayos
team

Employee Spotlight- Shuo Zhong

Strayos is proud to present... Shuo Zhong! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/shuo-zhong] Shuo aka Thor is our Computer Vision and Machine Learning Engineer, located in our Buffalo, New York office. > Thor- Strayos'

Strayos Strayos
drones

Best Drones for Drilling & Blasting 2020

Best Drones for Drilling & Blasting 2020 Drone use in the drilling and blasting industry has increased dramatically in recent years. As companies seek to improve their blasting practices, for example, by adding more

Strayos Strayos
team

Employee Spotlight- Jon

Introducing.... Jon Lewis! Jon Lewis is a Strayos Star, one of our exceptional employees dedicated to making your experience with Strayos amazing. Jon is our Solutions Engineer and is based in our Buffalo,

Strayos Strayos
fragmentation

How to Get the Fragmentation you Want

A recent survey of quarry companies attending Quarry Academy found that a whopping 60% of quarries feel their muck pile fragmentation could be better. Only 2% felt the quality of their muck pile fragmentation was excellent.

Strayos Strayos
internship

Intern Spotlight - Akash Adhikari

Strayos is proud to introduce... Akash Adhikari! One of Our Brightest Stars and an Epic Person. Akash is studying Mining Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology [https://www.sdsmt.edu/

Strayos Strayos
© 2025
Latest Posts Facebook Twitter LinkedIn