Pit & Quarry, January 2018
TECHNOLOGY PLANT AUTOMATION copper that causes chronic outages he adds So when it rains these sites will go down Brian Hollrah CFO at Alleyton Resource has experienced what Kerth describes on multiple occasions All of our ready mix plants are in the Houston metro area Hollrah says Theyre in urban and suburban areas and weve had lines cut there Weve even had lines cut on two separate occasions in 2017 at our corporate office outside of Sugarland Having lost two days toward a months end it can force us to work weekends or nights to get financials done he adds SOLUTION PROVIDED The same types of issues happen at aggregate sites Even if youre up 99 percent of the time that means youre down 1 percent of the time JEREMY KERTH BOUNDLESS TELECOM If we go down we wont be able to track our production Hollrah says Is our yellow iron up and running Are our guys being efficient We need that info More aggregate operations these days want this information as well Summit Materials purchased Alleyton in 2014 and theyre very IT focused Hollrah says Summit likes real time information and we have embraced it as well We are focused on key performance indicators so we can manage our business better Right now were doing some pilots on telematics solutions monitoring fuel consumption and usage for all of our yellow iron Were doing daily downtime tracking as well But doing business in this fashion means optimizing network uptime And thats where Alleyton came together with Boundless Telecom which deployed 4G as a wireless backup to the companys primary connection that promotes failover and failback in the event of an outage After seeing improvements and reliability in the network for an initial site Alleyton selected Boundless Telecoms Cloud Assurance solution for all of its available remote sites Cloud Assurance provides a primary and backup network connection which in Alleytons case co p ource DRILLING ro i DRILLING TOOLS UNDERGROUND Brunner Lay ÒQuality FirstÓ since 1882 Your for Whether you are drilling thru a mountain or a mole hill weve got a durable dependable solution for you If you need tools for construction mining or demolition were the only name you need to know Call 800 872 6899 or visit BrunnerLay com 20 PIT QUARRY January 2018 pitandquarry com
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