Drilling and blasting

Technology designed to help improve your drilling and blasting

Truck queues, inefficient haul routes, operator inaccuracy, fueling levels, equipment health, and short-term plan changes can all impact your mining productivity and operational costs.

Well-executed drilling can have an enormous impact on every other aspect of your operation. Refine nearly all aspects of your drilling operation, such drilling cycles, navigation, and bit changing and pipe handling. Komatsu’s drill automation help you reduce variability to realize benefits down the mining chain, like:

• Enhanced blasthole quality
• Improved fragmentation through precision execution of drill patterns
• More consistent production output
• Reduced machine and consumable damage from less experienced operators
• Increased equipment utilization and productivity
• Better downstream process efficiencies
   

Execute your mine plan with Komatsu’s range of high precision drilling solutions. By accurately drilling to the correct depth and angle outlined in the drill pattern, it reduces downstream impacts, such as uneven bench heights and haul roads and fragmentation.

Achieve your drilling targets, first time, every time. With real-time updates about your drilling operations and high precision GPS and GNSS drill guidance you can:

• Increase drill utilization during poor visibility events, such as weather and night operations
• Help reduce delays and downtime at the crusher caused by bad fragmentation
• Improve bench preparation and maintenance with hole depths within 10 cm (4 in) of design
• Reduce explosive costs with stratification data
• Maximize shovel operator’s ability to dig at the face with better fragmentation
   

Potential unlocked

You’ve made substantial investments in technology, equipment, and personnel. Komatsu's technology and workforce performance assurance programs can help you leverage untapped value to make the most of your existing resources.

Our experts work with you to identify opportunities to enhance productivity, efficiency and operator wellbeing, and promote sustained value throughout the life of your systems.

Komatsu's performance assurance programs offer:

• Access to global best practices, expertise and experience
• Excellent truck productivity and overall equipment utilization
• Controlled truck queue times
• Customized plans to address site-specific goals in dynamic conditions
• Enhanced data integrity
• Efficient shift change time
• Lower equipment maintenance costs
• Precise grade tracking
   

Elevating your most valuable assets

Maintaining a skilled, knowledgeable workforce is a challenge at most, if not all, mines. Whether you need to on-board a new-hire or to refresh a veteran’s skillset, it can be difficult to find training that is engaging, technologically relevant and easy to fit into busy schedules.

Designed to offer flexibility while meeting your specific training needs, we provide options for eLearning, virtual classrooms and simulations, in-cab ride-alongs and traditional, instructor-led courses.

Available topics include:

• Autonomous haulage training
• Dispatcher training
• Operator training
• Technology and equipment training (via Immersive simulators)
• Train-the-trainer programs

Participants also benefit from competency assessments, scorecards and benchmarking; assisted operation including in-person mentoring and coaching, and behavior modification to reinforce site-specific best practices.