Turning data in knowledge with Jigsaw

The Pueblo Viejo gold mine, in the Dominican Republic, is a joint venture between Barrick Gold and Gold Corp., which hold 60 per cent and 40 per cent ownership respectively. The mine is operated by Barrick Gold and 2013 was the mine’s first full year of production. Efficient fleet management and production optimisation is a priority.

The focus of fleet management in any industry is to capture, measure and control. Hexagon Mining’s fleet management system, Jigsaw Jmineops, is used commonly to optimise the real-time scheduling and dispatch of mobile mining equipment. Information provided by the fleet management system (FMS) gives greater control of operations and production. Jmineops optimises and centralises equipment tracking, dispatching and diagnostics, ensuring that activities and operators can be directed, material movement can be confirmed, and machine health can be monitored.

普韦布洛桥购买整套的拼图software in January 2011, and is running Jmineops, Jview, and Jhealth. In the pit it has implemented Jtruck, and J²guidance for high precision on shovels/loading units, production blast drills, dozers and track dozers.

“One of the biggest benefits of the Jmineops system is the amount of data it captures,” said Shane Boak, former FMS Administrator at Barrick Gold. “Everything that’s happening in the pit, in the mining environment, whether it be time-based information, where the material is being picked up, where it’s getting dumped, who’s operating the equipment, how fast it’s going, or what’s happening with the engine.”

Software + Hardware = Mining Solution
In addition to Jmineops, Hexagon Mining’s complementary software modules and hardware components provide more precise measurement, enhanced operations logic, and wider ranges of equipment usage in run-of-mine (ROM) processes. The Universal Hardware Platform (UHP) also allows numerous OEM independent interfacing options and integration potential for further equipment diagnostics, maintenance, and lifecycle management all within the same system.

“We’re using these tools to pull all this information together so we can make more informed decisions,” said Boak. “We’re keeping trucks running longer and faster, optimising our production and better managing risks.”

Hexagon Mining’s business intelligence (BI) suite for reporting and analytics, Jigsaw Jview, is then used to expand data collection and information management into knowledge. This improves processes, production efficiency and management decisions, all of which helps the mine stay on budget and achieve or exceed goals.

“It’s all recorded and this is where the BI tools come in really handy to come back and analyse all of this information and use it to make more informed decisions,” said Boak. “We can then improve our use of the FMS and our processes based on past performance and benchmarking results with goals.”

Customised data for better decision making
评估操作的绩效和结果会计取决于在FMS之外拥有数据和信息。每个地雷都必须回答许多级别的数据消费者和信息用户。从银行业到制造业，每个行业都提供BI解决方案，以及从基本报告到多个运营中的数据仓库的生产解决方案，再到企业资源计划。

Jview takes frameworks and portions of these components, scales the data, and focuses the content. Information delivery is tailored to many levels of user and data consumer, from mine fleet dispatchers up to managers and analysts. The standard report suite combines dashboards for near real-time information, static reports for common daily and operational reports, dynamic reports for common longer term analysis, and OLAP database cubes for ad-hoc reporting and in-depth analysis. Standard functionality is available out of the box. The platform is extensible and content is easily expanded and modified so you can own and interact with the data.

A mine administrator must provide specific reports to a manager upon request. The manager might not always know exactly what he wants to see and the administrator must explain what type of data is captured in the system, as well as the information it could provide. Using content like OLAP databases, ad-hoc reporting can be expanded and data explored. You can be shown how to slice and dice the data to investigate what you’re searching for by leveraging the data model and tools with no specific coding or query skills necessary. Often the most difficult part of information discovery is the business rules and requirements to solve problems, as well as time lost to access and analyse data.

“Jview便于起草一份报告,显示了manager, get feedback and then redesign the report to come up with the customised information requested,” said Boak. “We use these systems in a lot of areas. One recent project was looking at visualising the information. A table of data is one thing and we needed different perspectives. Putting it into a visual context and then manipulating the scenario, we can see how the data relates and gives a lot of benefit, a lot faster.”

Data analysis for increased safety
Applying diagnostics information together with production events provides vital insight. This is where detailed historical information from the FMS on operators’ working hours, cycle times and traveling speeds is extremely valuable. With high sample rate GPS data, actual speeds and equipment orientation can be determined before and after an incident. When played back the equipment path and activity can be reviewed.

Boak说：“矿场上的事故是任何人想要的最后一件事，但是当它们确实发生时，重要的是要分析活动前发生的事情。”“ JmineOps结合了JHealth并使用条件虚拟警报，操作传感器上下文和快照，使确定使用制动器，齿轮选择和发动机油门位置成为可能，为您提供围绕许多情况的黑匣子类型分析。”

也可以分析Jmineops的通用设备时间使用和可用性的数据，以确定计划的改进领域。这允许管理，轮班主管和维护人员关于设备使用，旋转和整个操作的要求做出透明的决策。跟踪这些细节以减少空闲时间，燃油燃烧，发动机小时，轮胎磨损和其他指标可提高效率并节省时间和金钱。

除了保持一致的物质满足the mill through shovel and truck production, other critical operations benefit from FMS and BI. Drill and blast (D&B) can directly affect production as well as haul road maintenance, construction and material stockpile supervision.

“D&B is a critical path in most mining environments,” said Boak. “Every day we have drills out there drilling holes and the supervisor needs to know this process is on track, details on progress for the drilling of a pattern, accuracy in hole positioning and depth control, and even consumable wear. When the blast occurs, fragmentation distribution is critical and the entire D&B process leads to the material removal and crushing. Tools like this make that information a lot easier for supervisors to see.”

Using telematics and FMS integration, blasthole drills can position to survey drill patterns without marking and supervisors can monitor accuracy and progression from any location.

Convenient data for immediate action
Pushing information to the field has always been a challenge. Jview is a simple, flexible platform that is extendable and allows customisation to content delivery across the operation. Supervisors get the information they need to make decisions on the spot, out in the field. Data can now be pushed out more efficiently to smart phones, tablets and 3G networks. Interface layout and design is important because visualisation differs between devices. Visual analysis improves discovery, interpretation, and insight. Matching content with users’ skills and purpose enhances interactivity and engagement.

“The goal is to make the information more manageable and accessible to people out in the field,” said Boak. “Not everyone can always be in the dispatch center, or even in their own office to look at information on those computers. We issue our shift supervisors tablets and they are able to pull up reports while they move around the mine.”

随着运营和技术的发展和变得更加复杂，控制和监控将变得更加至关重要。对FMS和BI的需求将继续。使用实时数据与商业智能之间的操作智能之间总是有一个吸引力，并收集了用于验证性能，发现事件相关性和比较更大时间范围的指标的大型历史数据集。FMS将需要发展以捕获更多数据并存储它以进行分析。FMS中可用的大量数据将使我们能够对运营的创新更改，超过行业标准。

然后，组织将将员工的体验智慧与引人入胜的自助信息交付工具相结合：解决问题，发现异常并采取行动。运营必须继续培养一种以数据为基础的文化，该文化设想新的业务规则，实现信息的价值并使用这些工具增长。通过使用这些系统的数据以及增强或实施新的过程和过程来获得知识。此方法通过使FMS功能中的新功能和增强功能参与用户来测试并验证当前过程，指标和过程。结果 - 将数据转换为信息，从而导致可行的见解和知识，从而获得更好的控制。从调度员到分析师，再到管理人员，拼图都可以提高问题的解决，而不是仅仅数据使用，从而使您可以控制环境，发现信息并获得知识。