“Typically, we are connecting the site and, especially in quarries, we go one step further with VisionLink® Productivity so assets are connected and site managers can analyse performance across job sites, making decisions to improve productivity. “Even more important than having the exact payload measurements, though, is that the site manager gets all the information. “A quarry customer wants to ensure trucks are loaded to the maximum, because, if you’re underloading trucks, you’re losing efficiency, which means higher costs per tonne. “If you can measure production, it allows you to avoid overloading or underloading the trucks. On all our equipment, starting from the load area, we have payload systems – on the excavator, the wheel loader, the truck, as well as the yard, when the material is leaving the quarry. “We certainly see right now the importance of measuring the material flow. “In the construction business, you tend to have smaller jobsites, which are constantly changing, and they don’t have the same repetitive processes.”ĭo these repeating processes and the potential for scalability make quarries good places to utilise technology? “For example, for truck loading, if you can make the operator a little bit more efficient – say 5 seconds for each truck load – you have scalability if you’re loading 100 trucks a day. You’re repeating hundreds of times a day. With every little change that improves the process, you have a high scalability. Quarry customers look for efficiency ways they can improve the process. “Because of this, you have long-term thinking. So, basically, you have a repeating process, hour by hour, day by day. From there, the final material leaves the quarry site. ![]() You generally have the same processes – you start drilling, blasting, extraction, hauling, dumping into the crusher, screening, then you go to the yard. ![]() “In a quarry site, you have basically a factory without a roof. “I think the nature of the business between quarrying and construction is quite different. With this in mind, Construction Europe spoke to Peter Sauter and Christian Berling, quarrying experts from Caterpillar, about how technology is being brought to bear on the sector, to help increase both efficiency and sustainability.Īre quarrying operations currently experiencing similar issues to general construction, or are the challenges in this sector different? Suppliers of building materials are now reporting a general fall in demand and that means quarry owners are seeing their margins squeezed and must optimise efficiency to remain profitable.
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