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Faceboss Control System
Help optimize your operation with actionable insights. Operator assistance tools, automated sequences, advanced diagnostics and machine performance monitoring from the Faceboss Control System.
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Imperial (US)
Room and pillar
4FCT
Flexible conveyor train
- Flexible conveyor train capacity (MTPH) 1 451
- Flexible conveyor train capacity (TPH) 1,600
- Minimum seam height (cm) 140 - 224
- Minimum seam height (in) 55 - 88
- Tram speed (ft/min) 72
- Tram speed (m/min) 22
Transform your haulage operation
Truly continuous haulage for your room and pillar, longwall and industrial mineral operations is now within reach. The 4FCT can transform your transport by reducing or even eliminating haulage-related bottlenecks, so your continuous miners can operate at maximum capacity.
- Up to 67% reduction in mobile haulage vehicles
- Reduce batch haulage delays
- Promote maximum cutter head minutes
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Features and benefits
Reduce spillage
Remove the need for a feeder breaker in the section with an integrated lump breaker that helps size the product, meter the flow onto the belt, and eliminate a transfer point.
Employ true continuous haulage
When hauling with vehicles, gaps and bottlenecks inevitably happen. But with the 4FCT, you keep material moving constantly. And the 4FCT can convey and tram simultaneously, following a continuous miner’s every move.
Adapt to low and high seam heights
Each 4FCT system includes a Dynamic Move-Up Unit (DMU) that interfaces with your mine's panel belt. Available in two styles: side-discharge, best in low seam heights/wide entries and over-the-top, best in higher seams with restricted width.
Keep system speed at peak
The 4FCT’s Optidrive power system provides variable control of traction, belt and chain conveyor motors. Your crews can maximize belt loading and minimize belt speed, thus extending belt wear life and minimizing spillage.
Seek maximum efficiency
With the Faceboss control system, your operators can manage equipment at an optimal balance of production rate and cost-per-ton. They have access to automated sequences, advanced diagnostics, machine performance monitoring and analysis tools.
Reduce traffic and dust
Keep personnel and machines in a section to minimum, as the 4FCT requires only one operator using remote control. Fewer people and machines means fewer visibility concerns in a confined area versus batch haulage. Better dust control, too.
Specifications
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- Entry width (ft): 20
- Entry width (m): 6
- Machine weight (over the lumpbreaker)(m): 1.24 - 1.5
- Machine weight (over the lumpbreaker)(in): 56 - 59
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