Fleet management solution
Real-time data to optimize operations
Smart Quarry Site offers a comprehensive analysis of production and helps you unlock efficiencies that lead to better production
You’re constantly challenged to be more productive and profitable in the quarry industry. Meeting these challenges means incrementally improving every aspect of your operation. Precisely tracking, digitizing and analyzing every detail of your mobile fleet can unlock the efficiencies you need to meet your targets. That’s the goal of Komatsu’s Smart Quarry Site.
“From a Smart Quarry standpoint, we have two solutions: Study and Site,” explained Craig McGinnis, Senior Manager, Customer Solutions, Komatsu. “Smart Quarry Study is a one-time snapshot or benchmark on an operation, whereas Smart Quarry Site offers a more comprehensive tracking over a longer period to provide a more in-depth understanding of a quarry and ways to improve it. We want to reduce total per-ton costs by maximizing and optimizing your equipment and operation.”
Hardware and software that tracks
Smart Quarry Site is a software and hardware solution that tracks your machines, then transmits and presents data for you to take action to improve. It delivers a real-time animated overview of every production machine’s movement and the materials they are loading, hauling and dumping. Dashboards provide real-time and historical information in insightful and intuitive ways, and each dashboard can generate custom reports.
Smart Quarry Site can help your operation:
- View routes, idle times and locations, so you can remove bottlenecks and waits, increase payloads, reduce fuel consumption and decrease emissions
- Compare operator or shift performance to reward your best operators and coach those needing improvement
- Know how full your haul trucks are, so you can optimize payloads to increase efficiency
- See—in real time—your production against your target and make adjustments to meet shift goals
- Ensure your machines stay productive with comprehensive inspection reporting, issue tracking and maintenance management
“The hardware is wired into your machines, and it’s pulling data such as payload from the truck and reporting back to the loader operator, so they know exactly how many tons per pass they have done,” said McGinnis. “Data is communicated via the cloud and shows exactly where the material was picked up, where it was dropped off, how that machine got from A to B, and what speed they were traveling.”
What’s included with Smart Quarry Site
A Smart Quarry Site subscription includes:
- A site readiness investigation and report
- Initial site master data site setup
- Cloud hosting and server maintenance
- Software and firmware remote updates
- Installation of hardware to each machine
- On-site commissioning for each machine
- One-day operator training for each vehicle and ongoing support
“Smart Quarry Site is brand agnostic, so it’s effective on mixed fleets with any combination of trucks, loaders, excavators, graders and dozers,” noted McGinnis. “We have a dedicated team that’s ready to deploy to the site, monitor and work with customers to optimize their operations.”
Prime example
McGinnis used an example to show how Smart Quarry Site can help maximize efficiency and lower overall costs. The solution was employed on a large quarry, but McGinnis said Smart Quarry Site can benefit operations of all sizes.
“One customer realized they were underloading, so they saw an uptick of 7% to 8% in their trucks’ payloads, which equated to about eight additional tons per truck,” McGinnis stated. “If you’re running 100-ton trucks, and each has that much more on every load during a 10- to 12-hour day, it adds up significantly. That’s a big bottom-line improvement.”
McGinnis added, “Something like that could also change practices because if you hit a production target faster, you don’t have to run as many hours. That saves wear and tear on the machines, reducing maintenance and further increasing savings. We recommend that you contact your distributor for more information about getting started.”
To learn more about Smart Quarry Site, visit https://www.komatsu.com/en/technology/smart-quarry/site/.
