Mechanical Technology February 2015

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enhancement can improve stockyard productivity by between 5.0 and 10%. “Following the installation of indurad technology at Vale’s iron ore port in Brazil, we are achieving 10 % better pro- ductivity, while in Australia, at the Pilbara iron ore mine, we were able to increase productivity by 5.0 %,” he claims, adding that the pay back period for both of these installations was within months. “For collision avoidance, we take a ‘virtual-fence’ approach, which involves, for example, warning the driver of ava- lanches or potential obstacles long before a typical tilt switch can. At an iron ore mine in the Northern Cape, an operator has estimated that the cost-to-company for a reclaimer breakdown was in the or- der of R1.5-million per hour. Considering this alone, spending R150 000 on a system to protect a R200-R400-million machine makes a lot of sense,” he concludes. Successfully installed on numerous machines such as stackers, reclaimers, car dumpers and shiploaders, indurad´s sensor technology has already been adopted by OEMs such as Sandvik, Tenova, FAM, Metso and, most notably

A bucket wheel reclaimer radar productivity solution with three iDRR radar sensors on each side of the bucket wheel. Collisions and avalanches can be prevented and the cutting speeds and depths can be automated to optimise throughput

ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions is now offering integrated indurad sensor solutions for all of its new and retrofit product and service offerings. q

in South Africa, ThyssenKrupp. Realising the safety and productivity advantages of indurad technology for the South African materials handling industry,

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