将数据与知识Jigsaw

多米尼加共和国的Pueblo Viejo Gold Mine是Barrick Gold和Gold Corp.之间的合资企业，分别持有60％和40％的所有权。该矿山由巴里克·金（Barrick Gold）经营，2013年是该矿山的第一年生产一年。有效的车队管理和生产优化是当务之急。

在任何行业中，车队管理的重点是捕获，衡量和控制。bob体育报道Hexagon Mining的车队管理系统Jigsaw Jmineops通常用于优化移动采矿设备的实时调度和调度。车队管理系统（FMS）提供的信息可以更好地控制运营和生产。JmineOps优化和中央设备跟踪，调度和诊断，确保可以定向活动和操作员，可以确认材料运动，并可以监视机器健康。

Pueblo Viejo在2011年1月购买了整个Jigsaw软件，并正在运行Jmineops，Jview和Jhealth。在坑中，它已经实施了Jtruck，并在铲子/装载装置，生产爆炸钻，黑道和田径斗车上高精度的J²Guidance。

“Jmineops体制的最大好处之一m 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.”

软件 +硬件=采矿解决方案
除JmineOps外，Hexagon Miningbob体育报道的互补软件模块和硬件组件还提供了更精确的测量，增强的操作逻辑以及更宽的设备使用范围（ROM）流程。通用硬件平台（UHP）还允许在同一系统中进行更多的OEM独立接口选项和集成潜力，以实现进一步的设备诊断，维护和生命周期管理。

Boak说：“我们正在使用这些工具将所有这些信息集中在一起，以便我们做出更明智的决定。”“我们使卡车运行更长，更快，优化我们的生产并更好地管理风险。”

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.

Boak说：“这一切都是记录的，这是BI工具非常方便地回来并分析所有这些信息并使用它来做出更明智的决定的地方。”“然后，我们可以根据过去的性能和实现目标进行基准测试结果来改善对FMS和流程的使用。”

定制数据以进行更好的决策
Evaluating operations’ performance and accounting for results depend on having data and information outside the FMS. Every mine must answer to many levels of data consumer and information user. From banking to manufacturing, every industry offers BI solutions, as well as productised solutions from basic reporting to data warehousing within multiple operations up to enterprise resource planning.

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 makes it easy to draft a report, show the 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.”

数据分析以提高安全性
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.

“Accidents on the mine site are the last thing anyone wants, but when they do happen, it is important to analyse what was happening in the lead up to the event,” said Boak. “Jmineops combined with Jhealth and use of conditional virtual alarms, operational sensor context and snapshots, make it possible to determine use of brakes, gear selection, and engine throttle position, giving you a black box type analysis around many situations.”

Data from Jmineops’ general equipment time use and availability can also be analysed to identify areas of improvement in planning. This allows for transparent decisions by management, shift supervisors, and maintenance crews concerning equipment use, rotation, and requirements throughout operations. Tracking these details to reduce idle time, fuel burn, engine hours, tire wear and other metrics increases efficiency and saves time and money.

Besides maintaining a consistent material feed to 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.

“在大多数采矿环境中，D＆B是一条关键的道路，” Boak说。“每天我们都有钻孔进行钻孔，主管需要知道这个过程已经有效，钻探模式的进度，孔定位的准确性和深度控制的详细信息，甚至是可消耗的磨损。当爆炸发生时，碎裂分布至关重要，整个D＆B过程会导致材料去除和压碎。这样的工具使这些信息更容易让主管看到。”

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.”

As operations and technology evolve and become more complex, control and monitoring will become even more vital. Demands on FMS and BI will continue. There is always a pull between operational intelligence with real time data versus business intelligence with collection of large historical data sets used to validate performance, discover event correlation, and compare metrics over greater time ranges. FMS will need to evolve to capture more data and store it for analysis. The vast amounts of data available in the FMS will allow us to make innovative changes to operations, exceeding industry standards.

Organisations will then combine the experiential wisdom of employees with engaging self-service information delivery tools: solving problems, discovering anomalies, and taking action. Operations must continue to cultivate a data-driven culture that envisions new business rules, realizes value in the information, and grows with these tools. Knowledge is gained by using data from these systems together with enhancing or implementing new processes and procedures. This method tests and validates current procedures, metrics, and processes by involving users with driving new features and enhancements in the FMS functionality. The outcome — the data is transformed into information which leads to actionable insights and knowledge, resulting in better control. From dispatcher, to analyst, to management, Jigsaw elevates problem solving beyond just data use, allowing you to control the environment, discover information, and gain knowledge.