Capital Equipment News May 2019

Booyco Electronics has been working closely with some of the leading surface equipment OEMS, like Bell Equipment.

Rapid access to product is a market differentiator.

what some PDS manufacturers claimed their systems could do and what they could actually deliver. One of the key challenges was the lack of real specifications or set guidelines on PDS technology. There was previously no standard globally of what the PDS should do. However, this has since been rectified with the establishment of the Earth Moving Equipment Safety Round Table (EMESRT) PDS Committee which has driven an international agenda to get functional specifications for PDSs. “EMESRT Best Practices define the scope of the functionality requirement of any PDS globally,” says Lourens. “This has lifted the game in terms of functional standards, while levelling the playing field in terms of compliance, allowing customers to compare apples to apples.” Lourens says the Minerals Council (formerly Chamber of Mines) has since appointed working committees that have adopted the EMESRT scenario as best practice in South Africa. The Minerals Council has appointed the University of Pretoria to develop a simulation model on behalf of the Council. All PDS/CAS suppliers have to go for simulation and evaluation assessments through the University of Pretoria whereafter they receive a report that indicates if their PDS functionalities are as per specification. This is a costly exercise for the PDS/CAS suppliers and if they are willing to do this you know they are serious in getting their units compliant. “The simulation model was released

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By now, every surface operation should have done its risk assessments on trackless mobile machinery to determine the level of risk

If significant, operations have to install warning devices (proximity detection solutions)

The deadline for collision avoidance systems was initially set for 2019, but the industry has asked it to be pushed to December 2020

The Minerals Council has appointed the University of Pretoria to develop a simulation model on behalf of the regulator

All PDS/CAS suppliers have to go for a simulation at the University of Pretoria where they receive a report that indicates if their PDS functionalities are as per specification

Booyco was one of the first companies that used the simulation model to verify its products

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