Real-Time Monitoring
Displaying real-time equipment location and status dynamically gives supervisors the information required to make knowledgeable decisions to mitigate the effects of production upsets and unscheduled events as they happen. Making the right decisions without delay helps keeps shift production on target.

Productivity Dispatching
The Wenco dispatching algorithm automatically assigns trucks to achieve the best utilization of mining equipment and maximize production. After the first year of implementation one client reported a 3% reduction in operating costs while increasing the amount of mined material by approximately 16%.

Control Delivery of Ore Quality
Automatically dispatching trucks to ore shovels to meet a specified range of material qualities at the processing plant feed point leads to higher recovery rates and reduced plant costs.

Improve Mine Performance
Increased tire life plus a reduction of 2 to 3 minutes off the average cycle-time provided a return on investment within 8 months for a client’s purchase of a survey-grade GPS on dozers and MESH broadband communications.

Automated Data Collection
Intelligent use of GPS technology and information from onboard OEM systems allows Wenco to accurately determine equipment activity, location, time, and production information automatically. Minimizing operator input reduces input errors and results in accurate, reliable and consistent data collection.

Payload Management
Payload Management saves you money. Overloading trucks risks tires, warranties and safety. Consistent under-loading is simply wasted capacity. Displaying the actual incremental payload recorded by the truck OEM payload system to the shovel operator during loading brings payloads closer to the design capacity of the truck.

Off-Route Detection
An ‘Off Route’ detection feature alerts supervisors of trucks heading to the wrong destination, preventing the costly mistake of ore landing on the waste dump and waste being processed through the ore circuit.

Onboard Health Monitoring
Tracking alarms from on-board systems prevents catastrophic failures saving one client $750,000 in a single year.

Freedom of Information
With an open SQL compliant real-time database, mines are able to freely access data and generate reports. Prevent cost escalation due to an anomalous trend in operational activity with the immediate retrieval of operational details and costs.

COTS Hardware
Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components protects you the buyer from planned obsolescence in proprietary hardware and the dependency on associated legacy code. In fact, the use of COTS is being mandated across many government and business programs, as they offer significant savings in procurement and maintenance.

Broadband Communications
MESH Networks brings reliability to the rapid deployment of high-speed wireless connectivity in your mine. Clients have added in-pit cameras and VOIP to the network to enhance overall production monitoring, communications and safety without compromising the delivery of essential data flows required for system functionality.