Rope Shovel and Hydraulic Excavator Monitor
An advanced monitoring system designed to manage payload, mine compliance and machine health for electric and hydraulic loaders - all makes, all models.
Improve Production
Every 1% improvement in shovel productivity can increase profits by up to 3%
- Improve operator technique and performance
- Provide real-time feedback, in-seat coaching and peer benchmarking
- Support fast, confident decision making on a range of production, mine planning, truck loading and maintenance tasks
Argus will typically boost your shovel productivity between 3 to 16% whilst lowering the cost per ton moved. Time after time our customers have demonstrated that once the Argus system is adopted their improvement is consistent and sustainable. A fully integrated, easy to use and interoperable system.
Reduce Cost. Increase Profit.
Argus delivers actionable, accessible information guaranteed to improve your bottom line.
- Guaranteed ROI. Productivity payback within 6 months*
- Reduce maintenance and operational costs
- Save millions of dollars annually by improving shovel output
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Fully Interoperable
All MineWare systems can connect and integrate with any 3rd party system using our standard API.
Currently integrated with the more popular systems such as RPM Xecute, Maptek Vulcan, Modular Dispatch, Leica Jigsaw & Caterpillar MineStar..
*Based on actual in-field trials and results
Features
Payload
Provides accurate bucket by bucket loads being added into each truck against a target payload
Guidance
Improve mine plan compliance. Dig to plan first time, every time.
Positioning
Get real-time representation of shovel and bucket positions.
Performance
Continual improvement and benchmarking for supervisors and management with KPI scorecards and reporting.
Diggability
Analyse blast effectiveness and material diggability to reduce machine stress.
Dashboard
Easy-to-use, enterprise-wide dashboard.
Solutions
Situational Awareness
See your operations in real time from anywhere, anytime.
- Instant viewing
- On-board video recording
- Safer operations for ancillary equipment
- CCTV cameras in and around machine
Payload Optimisation
Manage your bucket and truck payload to hit precise loading targets first time, every time.
- Reduce truck overloads and underloads
- Reduce truck bunching and wear
- Improve cycle and load time
- Improve payload accuracy
-Improve shovel output
Machine Health
Reduce downtime to keep your machine health up.
- Reduce critical issues
- Improve incident detection
- Reduce wear and unplanned maintenance
- Improve remote analysis of critical issues
Mine Compliance
Dig to plan with higher accuracy. Our high precision shovel and bucket location reporting will increase your compliant trucks and support your team to reach production targets and stay on track for maximum productivity.
- Minimise mine plan deviations
- Reduce over and under digging
- Move, load and dig sequencing
Being able to monitor our shovel loading enabled a payload accuracy of 3% compared to other truck-side payload methods that are typically only accurate to 10-15%
Case study
Canada’s largest surface-strip coal mine
Find out how Canada’s largest surface strip coal mine increased the effectiveness and productivity of their truck fleet by up to 20% within six months. Read moreContact Us
Contact us today to find out more about how our Argus shovel monitor can improve the productivity of your mining operations.
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