Capital Equipment News June 2021

Customers using Command for hauling report significant gains in productivity and truck utilisation rates with lower costs per tonne.

with Command trucks and have established the world’s first gold mining application with Command for hauling,” says Jim Hawkins, director of Cat MineStar Solutions. “Since surpassing 1-billion tonnes, we have expanded our Command fleet by nearly 250%.” Caterpillar has Command autonomous haulage system (AHS) fleets operating across three regions – North America, South America and Australia – at 17 mine locations, operated by nine different customers. Commodities mined using the Cat Command include iron ore, oil sands, copper, coal and gold. Command for hauling trucks now span class sizes from 190 to 360 tonnes (t). The Cat line of Command models include the Cat 789D, 793D, 793F, 797F and the 297-t 794 AC with electric drive. Command retrofit kits are available for Cat mining trucks as well as other brands of trucks and loading equipment. Since the first autonomous Cat trucks were commissioned in 2013, these AHS models have travelled more than 110-million km, equivalent to a minimum-distance, straight-line roundtrip journey to Mars, with no lost-time injuries associated with automated truck operation. Customers using Command for hauling report significant gains in productivity and truck utilisation rates with lower costs per

Caterpillar has surpassed 3-billion tonnes hauled autonomously by Cat MineStar Command for hauling

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Since surpassing 1-billion tonnes, Caterpillar has expanded its Command fleet by nearly 250%

Caterpillar has Command autonomous haulage system fleets operating across three continents – North America, South America and Australia – at 17 mine locations, operated by nine different customers

Since the first autonomous Cat trucks were commissioned in 2013, the AHS models have travelled more than 110-million km with no lost-time injuries

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