A Digitalized Route to Crushing Optimization: Drilling and blasting specialists EPC-UK utilize their digital expertise to improve their customers' crushing capabilities

摘要

As demand to optimize overall site performance in quarrying operations gathers pace on a global level, implementation of the most effective crushing market technologies continues to grow, driving demand for the research and delivery of safe, proven solutions. Helping to lead the way through the application of digitalized expertise, skilled product and system understanding, and a collaborative customer approach, are drilling and blasting specialists EPC-UK. Explaining the technologies, principles and benefits of their digitalized route to crushing optimization, the company's commercial manager, Ryan Ward, and explosives engineer, Dr Liam Bermingham, detail the team's advanced approach to improving crushing technologies using methods that are becoming increasingly pertinent to the industry's wider, 'future-ready' development. 'A truly effective quarrying operation is reliant upon advanced crushing technology to enhance its overall site performance,' explained Mr Ward. 'However, to optimize 'crushing', progressive 'blasting' techniques have become essential. 'At EPC-UK, our Metrics team has positioned itself at the sector's forefront in terms of developing and delivering targeted blast fragmentation using 'dynamic' fragmentation analysis - enabled by utilizing drone survey modelling of post-blast results.