What is PITRAM?

Real-time recording and managing of mine site operations. Capture cleaner data. Report better results.

PITRAM is a real-time mine production control system that records and manages mine site operations. From the field to the office, take control of your assets with this powerful solution.

Analytical. Reliable. Powerful.

Planning

Daily production planning is crucial for managing and prioritising activities so they are aligned with the weekly and short-term mine plan. 

Get a snapshot of your mine with PITRAM’s powerful Planning functionality. With access to maintenance plans, crew schedules and mining plans, PITRAM gives you the tools you need within a single environment to make informed decisions.

Weekly Planning

• Improve availability of resources by combining personnel, maintenance and mining plans
• Improve communication between personnel with the multi-user workspace which can be updated before, during and after daily and weekly planning meetings
• Prioritise activities across the board
• Improve productivity of personnel and equipment with increased utilisation
• Receive automated imports from common mine, maintenance and resource planning software

Daily Planning

• Review activity progress from the previous day and plan for the next day
• Prioritise activities based on current status and location of resources
• Assign qualified personnel to equipment

Short Interval Control (Shift Planning)

• Break down daily production targets by creating short interval targets
• Improve plan quality by utilising historical knowledgebase
• In-shift planning and rectification

Data Collection

Data acquisition is critical to recording all events related to mining operations, as they occur.

Gain immediate access to your site’s operations with PITRAM’s Data Collection environment - a versatile, rugged and dynamic platform with a user interface that is comprehensive and easy-to-use. With scalable data collection, PITRAM records real-time information relating to equipment locations, equipment status, personnel allocations and production measures.

Time Sheets

• Electronic entry of operators’ paper-based time sheet
• Enter data in web portal featuring a simple interface
• Consolidate supervisor, maintenance and operator time sheets into centralised database

Voice

• Send and receive data through voice communication between equipment and control room operators
• Reduced implementation and infrastructure costs

Automated

• Utilise high and low precision GPS or tagging technology to determine equipment and personnel locations
• Reduce information input and data handling required over voice channels.
• Simplify process of data entry with operator touch screen
• Immediate feedback to operators on equipment alarms and operator errors
• Interface with various equipment payload systems
• Updated activity across all locations

Distributed data acquisition

• Collect data through multiple data entry points including third party systems
• All personnel including supervisors, maintenance crew and operators can contribute to and access data resources

Real-time Management

To ensure that operations on your mine site are flowing smoothly and efficiently, you need information on-demand.

From risk management and asset tracking to grade optimisation and stockpile management, PITRAM’s real-time viewing environment helps you visualise your mining operations so you have the complete picture and the capacity to manage it.

Control room

• Respond immediately to critical issues on-site
• Implement daily and short interval control plans
• Improve communication between operators and supervisors
• Make informed decisions utilising information delivered in real-time
• Optimise equipment and personnel allocations and assignments

Visualisation

• Create a real-time 3D representation, including GPS or tag positions, of production in the mine
• Import mine layouts and pit outlines from other CAD or GIS applications

Supervisors

• Gain a roaming view of operations
• Prioritise issues on-site
• Implement and execute tactical plan

Grade Dispatch

• Reduce material re-handling
• Blend management by monitoring prescribed grade limits

Short interval control

• Record reasons for plan variations in knowledgebase
• Plan management and execution
• Receive alerts on underachieving locations or equipment
• Optimisation

Reporting, Analysis & Integration

Quickly and efficiently produce reports and utilise specialised modules to improve planning processes and assumptions.

From production to maintenance and mine management, PITRAM’s Reporting, Analysis &

Data Integration platform is vital to ensuring that the data obtained from disparate

sources are presented in an organised and integrated fashion.   

Production Management

• Quickly produce and drilldown reports
• Utilise dashboards for KPI tracking
• Compare actual against targets
• Perform workflow management for routine tasks
• Utilise Drill-and-Blast tools for management of mining cycles
• Monitor ore extraction from drawpoints

Continuous improvement

• Perform review of ‘technical limits’
• Conduct operator performance tracking for training purposes
• Support strategic decisions by measuring process improvement initiatives

Grade Control

• Perform tracking and measurement of material flow and grades
• Review and adjust plans to account for differences in material tonnes and grade
• View and manage changes to grades and stockpile levels
• Perform reconciliation of mill actual with mine claims and resource models

Multi-site Management

• Benchmark technical and commercial information across sites
• Generate live production statistics throughout the organisation
• Centralise administration and control of site software

Integration

• Produce activity-based cost models with financial systems
• Conduct site-wide reporting when integrated with process systems
• Reduce manual handling of personnel and production information