Titan 3330™ Monitors Machine Attachment Duty
Titan 3330 reduced machine duty factor by 15%.
Background
Location
Hunter Valley, Australia
Commodity
Coal
Digging Conditions
Moderate
Machine
Backhoe
Make & Model
Liebherr R9800
The Challenge
An Australian mining contractor operating in New South Wales commissioned a new ultra class mining excavator. A short time into the excavator’s life, signs of overutilization began to emerge. Although the asset was achieving excellent production rates, the Miner had no way of quantifying and monitoring machine attachment duty. The challenge was placed to record and report duty to both maintenance and production teams, provide a method of self-regulation for operators and subsequently reduce overall machine duty.
The Solution
CR Digital’s experienced field technicians worked with the Miner to install the Titan 3330 Load Haul Optimization system on the Liebherr R9800 backhoe. The duty monitoring system is specifically designed to minimize machine duty by providing real-time, pass-by-pass feedback to operators on the major attachments through hydraulic cylinder monitoring.
Sensors fitted on the excavator identify bucket cycles and map hydraulic circuit loads at high frequencies. A duty summary of each individual bucket cycle is reported live on the Titan 3330 user interface.
Operator training on the intuitive Titan 3330 system was rolled out once the product was installed and commissioned. Data reporting tools were provided to the customer to observe the impact of the system.
High Duty Factors indicate elevated loads on the excavator attachments and accelerated consumption of machine life.
Duty Cycle Classification per Period
Instant. Production Rate
Duty per Tonne
The Impact
The Titan 3330 Load Haul Optimization system delivered:
- 15% decrease in machine Duty Factor
- 20% reduction in machine Duty per Tonne
- 10.5% reduction of Elevated & High Duty Event
- 4% Reduction of truck underloads (equating to an additional 24,000 tonnes of material)
- 2.8% Increase in Instantaneous Productivity*
- 1% Increase in truck fill factor (compared to truck rated capacity)
- 2% Decrease in truck payload standard deviation (falling to 8%)
*Tramming & idle time not included
THE RESULTS
15
Decrease in machine Duty Factor
20
Reduction in machine Duty per Tonne
10.5
Reduction of Elevated & High Duty Events
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