GPS based truck dispatch system developed with indiginous resource

摘要

The opencast mines contribute majority of minerals produced in our country. These mines have capital intensive heavy earth moving machinery (HEMM) to handle huge volume of earth and other rocks/minerals. In today's business world, the management is continuously concerned with minimizing the idling of capital assets like HEMM and maximizing their productivity in order to operate within competitive costs. These HEMM, e.g. shovels and dumpers, are operated by skilled workforce and thus human factor substantially affect their productivity. The management is concerned about: Minimizing delays during shift-start, tea/coffee-break, shift-end etc. adversely affecting production Time-loss in attending field-breakdowns, diagnosis of break downs and devices to monitor health of HEMM to minimize occurrence of sudden break downs Minimizing queuing of dumpers at shovels or unload-points, idling of shovels for want of dumpers and restricting unnecessary travel of dumpers Other aspects like incentive/motivation to workforce, getting best out of supervisory staff, sharing of vital information on-line for better monitoring and control