Optimize Production Efficiency With Smarter Mining Technology

When a haul truck starts running 12-minute cycles instead of nine, those extra three minutes compound across the fleet with every shift. A conveyor motor bearing can run hot for three shifts before anyone notices, turning a manageable maintenance task into a more significant repair. A supervisor two benches away from dispatch doesn’t have the data to know where to move equipment until the queue has already backed up. These aren’t edge cases. They’re the ordinary efficiency leaks that separate a mine running at design capacity from one that isn’t.

Intermountain Technologies integrates fleet visibility, predictive maintenance, wireless connectivity and machine autonomy into solutions built around how your specific operation works. We assess your site, including data requirements, coverage areas, existing infrastructure and equipment mix before we recommend anything.

Mining Productivity Optimization

We integrate various solutions into a setup built around how your mine runs to address fleet visibility and production data, equipment health monitoring, site-wide wireless connectivity and machine autonomy. Because we understand that each site is unique, we take the time to assess your data requirements, coverage areas, fixed infrastructure, available fiber and ethernet and other factors before designing the right combination of technologies for your environment.

AVA Solutions

Most load and haul operations have performance data spread across siloed systems, captured manually or not captured at all. AVA is a data-driven mine management platform built for load and haul operations. It works with 600+ GPS units, requires no in-cab hardware and gives site supervisors real-time visibility into cycles, queue times, delays and idle periods across the fleet. When a cycle time drifts or a truck sits in the queue too long, AVA generates that data so your team can act on it. This solution offers:

  • Fleet visibility: View asset location, status and cycle data in real time from a cloud-based dashboard and make informed decisions without leaving the office.
  • Automatic cycle counting: Track loading and unloading cycles to access performance data without adding workload for your team.
  • Consistent performance: Deliver optimized results across shifts, independent of operator input or experience level, and reduce the productivity gap between your most and least experienced operators.
  • Dispatch optimization: Use live data to assign equipment where it creates the most production value each shift, minimizing idle time and improving overall fleet efficiency.
  • Predictive operations: Identify delays, queue patterns and behavioral trends that affect shift-to-shift performance so your team can make adjustments before they compound.
  • Safety and output: Help strengthen safety performance while sustaining and improving production rates, so you don’t have to choose between a safer site and a more productive one.

Thermal Imaging Cameras

Unplanned downtime is the most expensive maintenance outcome on a mine site. The cost of a motor that fails during a shift is more than just the repair expenses. It also includes the production hours while equipment sits, the crew time to respond, and the downstream disruption to cycle times across the fleet. Shifting maintenance from reactive to planned doesn’t just reduce emergency repair costs. It makes the maintenance budget predictable and extends the service life of major assets. Thermal imaging cameras support mining equipment optimization by capturing continuous temperature data from motors, bearings, conveyors and electrical systems.

Thermal imaging cameras provide:

  • Condition monitoring: Continuously track thermal data across motors, bearings and conveyor systems to detect developing wear and tear early to maximize uptime.
  • Electrical system inspection: Identify emerging faults in electrical infrastructure before they lead to unplanned shutdowns and potential production losses.
  • Preventive maintenance and equipment longevity: Plan routine maintenance around your production schedule to help reduce emergency repairs, extend asset life and make your maintenance budget more predictable.
  • Maintenance cost optimization: Shift to planned maintenance activities to reduce costs associated with unplanned downtime and urgent repairs.

Rajant Kinetic Mesh® Wireless Networks

Fleet data, thermal sensor feeds, equipment telemetry and autonomous machine operations all require a network that stays up when equipment moves, terrain shifts and blasts alter the pit geometry. Rajant Kinetic Mesh® provides wireless communications for mining, connecting haul trucks, loaders, dispatch and the operations center into one continuous data environment. When a node goes offline due to equipment movement, a blast or shifting terrain, the network reroutes automatically, keeping teams connected.

With this solution, you get:

  • Fleet management connectivity: Stream live asset data to dispatch and operations teams without interruption, so your team always knows where equipment is and what it is doing.
  • Real-time production monitoring: Track cycle times, load volumes and productivity metrics as they occur to make informed decisions.
  • Equipment telemetry: Maintain full site visibility so dispatch has what it needs to reduce idle time and improve routing decisions.
  • Dispatch coordination: Give coordinators the live operational picture they need to make faster, better decisions.
  • Load optimization: Use real-time connectivity to improve loading efficiency and reduce wasted cycles, increasing the tons moved per shift without adding equipment.
  • Cycle time tracking: Proactively monitor cycle times to identify where delays occur.

AIM Intelligent Machines

The traditional path to autonomous haul truck operations required OEM-specific systems and new equipment purchases. AIM supports semi-autonomous haul-truck operations and autonomous mining systems by retrofitting your current fleet. This solution continuously observes your best operators, learns their techniques and applies those lessons to your specific site conditions, delivering more precision and consistent cycle performance while typically allowing one operator to manage multiple machines simultaneously.

Enhance Mining Operational Efficiency​ Today

Improving efficiency starts with understanding where your operation stands today. Intermountain Technologies is ready to assess your site and help you identify where the right technology can make a measurable difference. Contact us online today to speak with an expert.