A mining company that needed to accurately monitor volume of ..production in order to share costs with its JV partner found a surprisingly simple solution that also offered maintenance benefits. The company wanted a cheap, practical method of recording the detail of truck loading and so turned to Infotrak, a specialist information management company dedicated to the earthmoving industry. "What IT people often fail to appreciate is that in practice computers are incompatible with mines," Infotrak MD John Bruyns said. "Dirt, mess, endless dust together with operators needing 30 minutes added to each shift just to keep someone in head office happy with regular data input, is no solution in a high cost and demanding industry."
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