Mining Solutions
MICROMINE’s real-time mine production control system, Pitram, records and manages mine site operations and provides powerful planning functionality. With access to maintenance plans, crew schedules and mining plans, we give you the tools you need within a single environment to make informed decisions.
From risk management and asset tracking to grade optimisation and stockpile management, our real-time viewing environment helps you visualise your mining operations so you have the complete picture and the capacity to manage it.
Our reporting, analysis & integration platform is also vital to ensuring that the data obtained from disparate sources is presented in an organised and integrated fashion.
Pitram helps mine sites increase production and reduce costs through:
- Improved Utilisation of Equipment and Personnel
- Material Reconciliation
- Operational Efficiency
- Real Time Information
- Safety Benefits
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Improved Utilisation of Equipment and Personnel
We believe underground mining shouldn’t leave you in the dark.
Challenge
- Equipment, (ancillary, cables etc.) is hard to find underground
- Shift change miscommunication results in time lost to find equipment
- Equipment used inefficiently
- Ambiguous underground equipment status reports
Current situation
- Hand over done on white boards and timesheets
- Information lost due to manual methods
- Ancillary and secondary equipment not covered
- Frequent operational environment changes
- Situational unpreparedness
- Recurring problems due to lack of tracking
Best practice
- Dashboards showing real time status
- Automatically generated shift change reports
- Sign-off automatically generated time sheets
- Reports on recurring problems
Our solutions
- Improved utilisation of equipment and personnel
- Fewer “unexpected” incidents
- Shorter shift change times
- Improved communication across shifts
- Decreased recurring incidents
Material Reconciliation
Less time to reconcile. More time for profit.
Less time on reconciliation means more time to focus on your business.
Challenge
Optimise monthly claim and reconciliation processes
Current situation
- Amalgamation of disperse data
- Poor data quality
- No feedback into planning cycle
- Time-consuming exercise
- Disconnected from other processes, mill and planning
- Batching issues
- No data transparency
- Changes to assumptions i.e. material, truck factors, SG
Best practice
- Visual material flow balance
- Transactional based grade control
- Dynamic Attributes
- Publish and audit changes to reconciled information
- Daily validation reduces effort of reconciliation
Our solutions
- Reduce time taken to reconcile
- Audit trail
- Proven method for tracking and reconciling material
Operational Efficiency
Scalable platform. Cost-effective solution.
Efficient production recording, without the expense of real-time mine activity monitoring.
Challenge
- Tough times require that managers perform more work with less resources
- Accurate granular information is required to calculate efficiency
- Obtaining the information is a hard task as it usually requires independent time studies
Current situation
- Using manual time sheet entry systems to capture information which is not detailed or accurate enough for calculating efficiency
- Information is captured in an unstructured or “once-off” format
- No validation of the entered data
- Insufficient resources for Time Study reports
Best practice
- Using asset performance tools that take less time to interpret and provide more time for analysing trends and implementing improvement programs
- Information kept in a relational data store; allowing information to be readily analysed
- Information validated at point of entry; identifying and resolving issues at source
- Continuous recording of information that ensures improvement programs can be benchmarked and monitored without requirement for new time studies
Our solutions
- Improvement in overall resource efficiency
- Reduction of operational bottlenecks
- Early identification of improvement program issues
- Reduction in operating costs
- Reduction in capital expenditure
Real Time Information
Real-time information. Real-time solutions.
Making operational decisions today and only have last month’s data?
Challenge
Business and operational managers require timely, accurate information to make quick decisions with little margin for error.
Current situation
- Disparate data sources
- Slow turnaround of information
- Data reworking to analyse new scenarios
- Too much information in the wrong format
Best practice
- Delivery of timely and tailored information to your team via the right format and tools (internet, email, dashboards and control room):
- Automated presentation of key statistics, dashboards and management reports
- Timely presentation of real-time data for shift changes
- User-friendly presentation formats for easy analysis
- Easy drill-down into important information; saving interpretations for later use
Our solution
- Keeps the operation aligned to production plans
- Tracks and monitors operational goals and objectives
- Assists informed decision-making
- Facilitates continuous improvements in operations and safety
Safety Benefits
Know where your people are – even in the dark.
Track multiple assets across multiple locations for controlled area management.
Challenge
To record and control people and equipment across multiple site locations when visibility may be poor or non-existent.
Current situation
- Poor asset visibility
- Working from old site data
- Hazard movement not recorded properly
- Inadequate management of controlled areas
Best practice
- Real-time data centralisation
- Intuitive communications processes
- Control of personnel interaction with hazards
- Information feedback to personnel in real-time
Our solution
- Centralised recording of hazard issues and movements
- Support for existing safety systems
- Communication process improvements
- Controlled area management and alerts