Jigsaw360 utilises highly-advanced technologies to automatically provide optimised truck and shovel assignments; increase productivity; monitor and report key performance indicators (KPIs), and minimise operating costs. Operators, maintenance personnel, engineers, managers and supervisors will all benefit from the unparalleled capabilities of a Jigsaw360 Mine Management Solution.

Real mining information, in real-time
Knowledge puts the power and control of your mine site back in your hands. Arranging all the pieces of your site’s puzzle and making sense of the masses of information gathered from all your Jigsaw360 systems is Leica Geosystems’ office software, Leica MineOps JS.

HaulPro JS
Monitoring the entire haul cycle, HaulPro JS:

• Minimises truck idle time
• Reduces fuel costs
• Highlights truck KPIs in real-time
• Displays positions of all mining equipment
• Indicates ‘best path’ travel routes for assignments
• Allows operators to log spillage and other hazards
• Displays these events on other machines’ graphics screens

LoadPro JS

With an emphasis on production and optimisation, LoadPro JS features:

• Loading tonnage analysis
• Graphics display of all mining equipment
• Feedback between LoadPro JS and trucks being loaded
• A mine traffic screen to display ETA of trucks on route
• Polygon display of material mining blocks

DozerPro JS

Focusing on the surrounding work area, DozerPro JS can be used on both wheel and track dozers for:

• ‘At a glance’ screens highlight hazard and other boundaries
• Graphics display of all mining equipment
• Full task/activity management and monitoring

DrillPro JS

This production monitoring system allows operators to update pattern progress on the fly:

• Production monitoring (penetration rates, drilling times etc.)
• Consumable tracking to track and manage the life span of drill bits, drill steel, adapaters, etc.
• Pattern progress can be updated by operators (working and completed)
• Graphics display of all mining equipment
• Navigation to designed blast holes

AuxPro JS

The AuxPro JS system can be implemented across fleet vehicles and a range of auxiliary assets on your site It provides:

• Full task/activity management and reporting
• Real-time graphics display of hazards and spillages, with automatic ‘best path’ route highlighted
• KPI and production data displays

Move material right the first time with Leica DozerNav JS - the latest high-precision GPS navigation and production monitoring system for track and wheel dozers from Leica Geosystems. Using GPS antennas and an onboard computer, Leica DozerNav JS brings your site’s design plan (including digital terrain models, topographical maps and cut/fill grids) onscreen and into the cab, in real-time. Leica DozerNav JS fully integrates with all systems within Leica’s Jigsaw360 mine management suite.

Cost savings and site benefits - Leica DozerNav JS:

• No need for staking (reduced labour and human error)
• Real-time cut/fill grids, cross-section profiles, plan view and hatch view reduce re-handle
• Monitor project progression, including volumes moved and distance pushed
• Download and translate digital terrain models (DTMs) including CAD and topographical maps
• View real-time productivity statistics / KPIs to keep your site on track
• Pitch and roll are displayed for grade control performance
• Accurate HP-GPS means that sites build better benches, roads, drainage projects, sediment ponds and reclamation plans

Safety improvements - Leica DozerNav JS:

• No staking means less people are within the operational area
• Hazard awareness (cables, stopes, voids, old workings, boundaries etc.)
• Warning zones alerts
• Machine-to-machine awareness
• HP-GPS and system software eliminates operator guesswork
• Area covered by the ripper is shown
• Tilt sensor support measures the machine’s pitch and roll
• Real-time safety information such as delays, faults, defect and work modes

Hardware features - Leica DozerNav JS:

• Data communications use existing site wireless LAN, or can be supplied by Leica Geosystems
• Supports track and wheel dozers
• LCD, full-colour touch-screen

Leica DrillNav Plus

Leica DrillNav Plus, for blasthole drills, combines the latest in HP-GPS navigation and monitoring technologies to improve accuracy, efficiency and safety for optimum site operation.Combining real-time monitoring software with the latest in HP-GPS technologies.

Leica DrillNav Plus meets the needs of your mining operation by improving drill accuracy, efficiency and safety. Offering sites added flexibility, Leica DrillNav Plus gives you the option of designing drill patterns in the office, before downloading them directly to the drill; or the drill operator can layout standard patterns onboard the machine.

Leica DrillNav Plus’ advanced real-time GPS navigation and guidance capabilities sees operators correctly execute drill patterns – in all weather, day and night – and ensures that designed holes are accurately drilled to the correct depth. This results in a reduction in over- and under-drilling, better fragmentation and reduced blasting costs.

Leica DrillNav Plus records, and reports on, many KPIs including: activities versus delays; target depth; number of holes drilled; rate of penetration, and total shift footage/meterage.

Leica DrillNav Plus is just one product of many within Leica Geosystems’ leading-edge Jigsaw360 mine management suite.

Featuring leading-edge technologies, Leica DigNav JS optimises productivity; monitors production; reports on key performance indicators (KPIs); eliminates the need for grade staking, and reduces operation costs.

With accurate navigation to the teeth of the bucket, Leica DigNav JS improves ore control, bench elevation control, and decreases labor and rework. The system also includes ore navigation and automatically identifies materials from grade block models. Leica DigNav JS helps to reduce the chance of accidental operator error and ensures that results are efficient and match the design plan.

Real-time feedback:

• Cut/fill/grade screens—to show operators what’s required to cut or fill to grade
• Dual surfaces onscreen—design and working surfaces are displayed simultaneously
• Productivity statistics—full statistics are shown including material moved
• Hatch views—show operators the current working surface compared to the design surface
• Real-time information that can be used to avoid queue and hang times
• Display information to the operator with regards to trucks assigned and the ETA of the next truck, and trucks in queue intended destinations

 Awareness:

• Provide safety and production information
• Accurate delay detection for detailed analysis of lost time, thus improving excavator and shovel tool utilisation
• Provide diagnostic information such as position quality, health of individual machine sensors, and communications

Accurate GPS control:

• Eliminate the need for surveying
• Provide automatic block recognition, straight from the mine plan
• Highlight the positioning and rotation of the digging equipment
• Accurately define the pitch and roll of the machine house, boom, stick and bucket
• Create smooth benches floors for better loading, truck cycles and preparation work
• Work safely around voids, highwalls underground workings and other hazards

Effective planning and management:

• Precise monitoring of excavation volumes and haulage distances are presented
• Operators can view KPIs and assignments onboard
• Dig to complex CAD designs
• You can calculate dig and dump points to map out diglines
• Machines are aware of other mining equipment working in their proximity
• Detailed bucket-by-bucket information, swing angles and vertical angles digging
  

The world’s most advanced dragline monitor, and the accepted standard, the Series 3 Dragline Monitor provides real-time feedback on a broad range of key dragline performance measures. It also provides the opportunity to gain quantitative feedback on future initiatives.

Advantages:

• Real-time operator feedback


• Work at peak efficiency. Operators can evaluate their performance against peers in similar conditions using Leica Geosystems' advanced KPIs


• Accurate vital measurements (cycle, delay, fill, propel and swing times, volume moved, swing rate, total swings, steps taken, and total suspended load)


• Delay detection, recording and analysis


• Blasting can be efficiently quantified with the accurate measurement of fill time, drag distance, production, and a unique digibility index


• Easy-to-use system with LCD touch screen


• Real-time data transmitted to office for analysis, reporting and decision making


• Radio telemetry integrates office with the machine in the field


• Reliable service and support

Giving you the opportunity to extend the operating envelope of your dragline safely, and therefore the productivity of your dragline is the Leica Series Dragline Monitor option, Leica SIMS.

Leica SIMS provides real-time, pre-emptive information to the operator, such as what to do to stop an operation that may cause strength or fatigue limits to be exceeded on the boom. It also provides actual boom strength and fatigue feedback.

This information can then be used to improve operator techniques, allow mining and maintenance engineers to better control and analyse peak performance factors, and to make immediate changes to optimise maintenance planning.

How does Leica SIMS work in practice?

Leica SIMS can be tailored to any dragline and is based on state-of-the-art structural integrity management technology developed at Monash University, Australia.

With the use of a finite element analysis of the boom, structural limits and critical member locations can be identified. In most cases, with the use of Leica SIMS, the dragline can then be certified to operate at well above its rate of suspended load.

Leica SIMS uses a series of sealed long life strain gauges designed to measure the stress and fatigue of the structure in key locations of the boom.

This information can be used to provide operators and foreman with valuiable real-time feedback on their operating practices. E.g. Critical alarms are engaged when:

• Swinging with the bucket engaged


• The bucket is out of plane, carrying excessive stress


• Fly dumping


• General fatigue and stress occurs


• Lifting the bucket too fast causing boom osolation (excessive fatigue)

Optimising dragline productivity

Information provided by Leica SIMS can be used by dragline operators and maintenance and mine management to better control the key parameters the dragline boom is operating within.

Operators can load the boom to its structu

Traditionally, dragline operations required the time and cost of a surveyor to stake the required block alignments. The issues that this created included the compromised safety of surveyors, as well as difficult referencing of stakes (their distance and offset) especially in times of bad weather conditions or dust levels.

With Leica DragNav Plus (a Leica Series 3 Dragline Monitor option), an electronic design plan can be sent by radio telemetry from the office to the draglines for use by the operator. This allows the operator to see where the dragline bucket is in relation to the pit design - in real time - for productivity improvement.

The benefits of Leica DragNav Plus

• Correct spoil placement
• More coal, less stripping
• Minimised re-handle
• Graphical views for operators
• Ore body navigation tools
• Real-time progress tools (KPIs)