Tag: productivity
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The Surveillance Data Dilemma: Are Mining Companies Sitting on Untapped Gold?
Surveillance systems, widely adopted across mining operations for safety and security purposes, holds the potential to transform operational intelligence – if mining companies can learn to mine it. This week’s Blog from the experts at Axis Communications takes a deep dive into how data collection can be transformed from security to strategy.
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Preventive Maintenance for Peak Productivity: Choose a condition monitoring system to minimize downtime and maximize ROI
Condition monitoring systems for vibrating screens revolutionize mineral processing by offering 24/7 equipment surveillance through advanced sensors and AI. These systems proactively detect potential failures like bearing damage, lubrication issues, or structural faults, minimizing unscheduled downtimes and enhancing efficiency. With detailed diagnostics, predictive maintenance, and user-friendly data, they optimize uptime while reducing corrective maintenance costs.…
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Re-Thinking the Toolbox Talk: How Mine Sites are Changing Pre-Shift Safety Briefings to Use Predictive Fatigue Data
The pre-start meeting is the place where shift supervisors discuss the tasks for the day, highlight safety precautions, and issue warnings. This week’s Blog by Fatigue Science discusses its technology that ensures when crew members say they aren’t feeling tired, they are telling the truth – making the job site safer for workers.
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Haul Truck of All Trades: Rear-Eject Equipment Offers Increased Versatility for Mining Applications
Rear-eject bodies offer a number of productivity-enhancing benefits. In this week’s Blog, @PHILsystems outlines how this versatile piece of support equipment can increase efficiency for both open pit and underground mining operations.
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An Equipment Strategy Can Help Maximize the Productivity of Your Mining Operation
With the technology on equipment today, there is a tremendous opportunity to measure and maximize productivity. But when the focus is only on total cost of ownership, any significant improvements in your mining operations can be a challenge to maintain. This week’s Blog explores the benefits of developing an equipment strategy, and details the steps…
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Chute Cameras Enable Haul Truck Drivers to Operate Arc Gates by Remote Control
Provix specializes in enhancing safety and productivity by offering core competencies through video integration, remote operation, proximity detection, and vision enhancement for mining operations. This week’s Blog takes a look how Provix wireless camera technology has been implemented on loading chutes for customers around the world.
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In It for the Long Haul
On the surface, it may appear as though truck bodies don’t deviate much from one design to another, but that cannot be further from the truth. This week’s Blog discusses what you need to keep in mind to help increase payload, decrease downtime, and get the highest lifespan on your trucks.
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The ways a drug and alcohol policy can help save time and money
Drug and alcohol use on the jobsite has become an increasingly hot topic issue for employers across Canada in the wake of last year’s passing of the federal Cannabis Act. And not only a topic of conversation, substance abuse has also been proven to drastically reduce productivity in the workplace and have a significant impact…