Pit & Quarry, August 2017

SofTwARe AUToMATIon Proactively manage safety program Todays HCSS Safety program offered by construction industry software developer HCSS helps companies develop a culture of safety by empowering employees to contribute to the safety program Through cloud based storage and reporting of critical safety data including safety meetings near misses incidents reporting training and job activity hazard analysis HCSS Safety helps contractors more effectively and efficiently manage their safety programs Recently released updates to HCSS Safety enhance the programs reporting capabilities to assist safety managers in preparing records for inspections Through the web based mobile app HCSS Safety empowers field employees to personally contribute observations such as near miss situations and incidents By helping to foster company wide ownership of the safety program HCSS Safety removes sole responsibility of the program from safety personnel The company says that since information is captured digitally through the software safety issues in the field can be addressed on the spot and information can be immediately disseminated to other offices www hcss com View operator insight with mobile application MICRoMIne released Pitram 48 a fleet management and mine control solution Pitram 48 delivers new functionality including Pitrams mobile application Pitram Connect With the release of Pitram 48 Micromine enables both underground and surface operations to reduce costs increase productivity and improve safety and business intelligence Pitram Connect is Micromines new mobile application that offers seamless third party integration on a users mobile device via Pitrams Restful Integration Services PRIS Pitram Connect provides insight into the operations at a mine site without requiring users to directly contact mine control personnel or be at a workstation With Pitram Connect users have access to various mine site related data Performance metrics show how the mine is performing with configurable options providing real time information and equipment data provides real time information regarding the mining fleet The location provides information about the type detail and status of locations as well The operator screens provide real time information on primary operators and allow users to identify what equipment an operator is using at which location and for what duration www micromine com Combine communicate multiple data sources RPMS latest release of their ultra short term scheduling tool Xecute 13 utilizing a visual enterprise enabled real time planning platform Outdated methods use transactional information to develop a mine plan whereas Xecute combines multiple data sources including block models spatial data topographical information maintenance information and FMS HP GPS actuals to develop and communicate the plans to the entire business One of the major features within the latest release is the inclusion of stratigraphic bench support This allows for a stratigraphic horizon to be used rather than a set level and opens up the availability of the solution to be used at numerous operations across the world The solution has now been extended for use in a number of other commodities such as oil sands where the solution is currently being deployed to one of the worlds largest oil sands mines www rpmglobal com 36 PIT QUARRY August 2017 pitandquarry com