Fleet Management Solution for the mining industry
The mining industry occupies a unique role in our economy: few activities are as fundamental as extracting the natural resources we need to prosper and grow. But operating heavy equipment in harsh environments as miners do also means having special and demanding requirements.
Read on to see how our advanced technologies are helping modern mining companies deliver value to stakeholders and society at large with efficiency, reliability, and environmental responsibility.
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Eyes on the Prize: Tracking Fuel in Transit
Once a tanker truck hits the road, you have little visibility on what happens with its valuable cargo. Does it follow the route it is supposed to? Does it make unplanned stops along the way? Does the fuel storage level change at some point before reaching its destination?
These are all crucial questions for obvious reasons. Fuel is expensive and if it goes missing, you must find out about it lest a significant and ongoing cash drain goes unnoticed. Let SM2 seal it with state-of-the-art asset tracking technology.
- Know where your fuel is at all times: SM2 provides the route and position of the your tanker in real-time.
- Secure that valuable cargo: put security front and center with features such as fuel fraud alarms, a panic button, and fuel level monitoring.
- Optimize planning. Plan ahead with geo-fencing: SM2 automatically notifies you when the tanker starts its route, and as it nears its destination.
Account for Every Drop of Fuel: Automated Fuel Inventory Management
The immense volumes of fuel consumed by mining operations represent a significant ongoing cost which must be tracked and accounted for. This is a real challenge, however, when fuel is delivered to depots before being distributed to various sites and field equipment throughout the mine. SM2's got you covered: leading edge fuel management technology is how we got our start 30 years ago and we haven't stopped leading the way since.
Our highly automated fuel management system guarantees you can account for every drop of fuel with extreme precision and less time: storage tanks are easily and efficiently managed while the finance department gets all the information it needs.
- Tighten the management of your fuel depot(s): SM2's unique tank management technology automatically tracks fuel drops and records volumes delivered with an accuracy above and beyond standard storage tank probes.
- Eliminate shrinkage: SM2 captures all the data necessary to match inventories to deliveries and consumption with extreme accuracy. And it's fully automated so you can get daily reconciliation reports, catching shrinkage early and nipping it in the bud.
- Never worry about environmental compliance: get the peace of mind that comes with accurate record keeping not reliant on human intervention. SM2 will even produce compliance reports in the exact format mandated by relevant agencies.
- Save hundreds of thousands in potential cleanup and reputational costs: with your storage tanks monitored 24/7, any leak triggers instant notifications—or even action via web service execution. Fix small problems before they turn into big ones.
STREAMLINE Your FUELING Operations: AUTOMATED FUEL DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT
Operating fueling sites comes with some headaches: added maintenance, environmental compliance issues, concern for theft, and others.
Whether you operate 1 or 100's of sites, SM2 unburdens you of associated management chores, putting you firmly in control of in-house fueling. And any of our clients will tell you it does this with high levels of automation and reliability.
- Reduce fuel costs: SM2 controls access to your dispensers 24/7. You get accountability for every drop dispensed with accurate records of where, when, and who dispenses fuel to which equipment. SM2 will even track fuel dispensed to jerrycans!
- Save on deployment cost and time: has your organization already deployed badges or key fobs to employees? SM2 supports them. Authenticate drivers and vehicles using any combination of PIN, RFID badge/key fob, and RFID discs.
- Speed up fueling while capturing vehicle data automatically. Drivers love SM2's fully automated fueling mode: no cards, no data to key in—just fuel up and go. And managers love error-free vehicle data recorded without human intervention.
- Get peace of mind with unmatched reliability: SM2's rugged hardware is designed and built with the toughest environments in mind.
CLOSE A BIG LOOPHOLE: AUTOMATED FUEL TRUCK MANAGEMENT
While job site refueling may be absolutely necessary for most construction companies, tracking it accurately can be challenging. Fuel trucks easily turn into accountability holes in an otherwise tight management system. How much of that fuel goes where is a question mark for accountants and a thorn in your side.
SM2 completely solves the issue, enabling you to account for every drop pumped out of your tanker trucks during job site fuel runs.
- Maintain end-to-end accountability by tracking job site refueling with extreme accuracy.
- Speed up refueling runs by eliminating manual data logging yet collecting complete fuel distribution data to your central database.
- Gratify fuel truck drivers with automated, hands-free data collection.
- Mobile fuel management for all sizes—and budgets: whether you operate large tanker trucks or small transfer tanks on the back of pickup trucks, SM2 can accommodate all sizes and budgets.
VEHICLE TRACKING AND DRIVER'S LOG
Are vehicle breakdowns caused by driver behavior? Is the safety of everyone respected? Are fleet assets used for company business? Are they where they are supposed to be?
Tracking assets' activities enables you to measure in order to manage. Costs can be minimized, behaviors and patterns can be adjusted when required.
SM2's real-time asset tracking offers unparalleled integration with other elements of your fleet's operation. What you get is a holistic approach to fleet tracking and management.
- Gain full visibility on your operation: SM2 will track where your vehicles and equipment are, what they are doing, and notify you based on many triggers—including the statuses and activities of on-board systems , driver behavior, and geo-fence based events.
- Maximize the useful life of your vehicles: SM2 captures engine data in real-time, straight from the on-board computer. Mileage, engine hours, fault codes, idle time, and other info are fed to your maintenance management process for timely notifications.
- Improve safety by tracking and managing user behavior such as driving habits, rest periods, and proper usage of on-board systems.
- Reduce costs: SM2 helps minimize vehicle and equipment breakdowns and will facilitate potentially massive savings in vehicle insurance premiums.
SAVE TIME AND LABOR WITH REMOTE MONITORING OF DAY TANKS AND GENERATOR SETS
Remote generators present a bit of a challenge. You have little visibility on them but at the same time, they tend to power equipment or buildings critical to your projects or operation. You need to be sure they are in running order and fueled up.
You can of course dispatch periodic check-ups and fuel runs to ensure things run smoothly when needed. But let us suggest a more cost effective alternative: SM2 can be there so you don't have to be.
- Guarantee emergency power when it's most needed by monitoring fuel levels and other important data from a central dashboard. Refuel only where and when needed.
- Get immediately notified by email and SMS of critical events such as fuel level thresholds, fuel temperature, low and overfill alarms, and leak alarms.
- Prevent costly and unsafe downtime by capturing accurate generator runtime for timely preventive maintenance work only where and when needed.
Elevate YOUR Operation's Productivity THROUGH EXPERT FLEET MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT
Unexpected equipment breakdowns at a mine are a serious concern. Even short-lived interruptions in operation can cost millions. Not to mention the paramount issue of safety.
A smoothly running fleet is essential to employee safety and to delivering the high productivity levels that mining operations demand. It's thus more important than ever for you to execute a capable preventive fleet maintenance program as a means to elevate your equipment's' reliability, safety, and performance.
Fleet managers in the mining sector can use SM2 to streamline all aspects of maintenance management, achieving a finely tuned equipment fleet ever ready for work.
- Extend your vehicles' reliability, minimize compliance issues, boost safety: multi-trigger preventive maintenance and inspection plans precisely tailored to each vehicle's usage profile get it done.
- Put the brakes on costs: track parts and labor consumed with detailed work order management; maximize warranty recovery with traceable part numbers; tame the scourge of shrinkage by easily reconciling inventory to consumption.
- Avoid the headaches of large, complex systems: Keep It Simple and Smart with easy to use browser based software that delivers all the functions you need.
- Who likes to spend their time cleansing bad data? Automated vehicle data capture saves you time and money—feed accurate data to those weighty backend ERP systems.
ACCESS CONTROL AND TIME TRACKING
You may have personnel dedicated to controlling access to mines and assets. But security staff cannot manage certain important elements. For instance whether or not a vehicle exiting the premises is due for critical maintenance work.
Controlling the ins and outs of your facilities ensures that only authorized personnel can access your yard(s) and building(s). It also enables you to restrict access to different zones based on employee qualifications, security clearance, and preconfigured schedules and holidays.
As important: since SM2 fully and seamlessly integrates access control with fleet maintenance management, you can make sure vehicles with overdue critical maintenance stay do not go out. This is crucial to ensuring your workers' safety, and minimizing insurance costs and liability.
- Keep premises and specific zones secure: SM2 can be configured to restrict access to specific areas in order to protect valuable equipment, sensitive information, etc.
- Minimize shrinkage and theft: restrict access to stock, parts, expensive tools, etc., thus tightening your inventory management.
- Ensure your workers' safety: with SM2, you can automatically control exits from the yard based on each vehicle's maintenance status, driver qualification/authorization to operate the unit, whether the vehicle is scheduled for work, and many other parameters.
- Keep track of attendance and hours worked with SM2's electronic punch clock. Feed this data easily to your payroll system.
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- Know where your fuel is at all times: SM2 provides the route and position of the your tanker in real-time.
- Secure that valuable cargo: put security front and center with features such as fuel fraud alarms, a panic button, and fuel level monitoring.
- Optimize planning. Plan ahead with geo-fencing: SM2 automatically notifies you when the tanker starts its route, and as it nears its destination.
-
- Tighten the management of your fuel depot(s): SM2's unique tank management technology automatically tracks fuel drops and records volumes delivered with an accuracy above and beyond standard storage tank probes.
- Eliminate shrinkage: SM2 captures all the data necessary to match inventories to deliveries and consumption with extreme accuracy. And it's fully automated so you can get daily reconciliation reports, catching shrinkage early and nipping it in the bud.
- Never worry about environmental compliance: get the peace of mind that comes with accurate record keeping not reliant on human intervention. SM2 will even produce compliance reports in the exact format mandated by relevant agencies.
- Save hundreds of thousands in potential cleanup and reputational costs: with your storage tanks monitored 24/7, any leak triggers instant notifications—or even action via web service execution. Fix small problems before they turn into big ones.
-
- Reduce fuel costs: SM2 controls access to your dispensers 24/7. You get accountability for every drop dispensed with accurate records of where, when, and who dispenses fuel to which equipment. SM2 will even track fuel dispensed to jerrycans!
- Save on deployment cost and time: has your organization already deployed badges or key fobs to employees? SM2 supports them. Authenticate drivers and vehicles using any combination of PIN, RFID badge/key fob, and RFID discs.
- Speed up fueling while capturing vehicle data automatically. Drivers love SM2's fully automated fueling mode: no cards, no data to key in—just fuel up and go. And managers love error-free vehicle data recorded without human intervention.
- Get peace of mind with unmatched reliability: SM2's rugged hardware is designed and built with the toughest environments in mind.
-
- Maintain end-to-end accountability by tracking job site refueling with extreme accuracy.
- Speed up refueling runs by eliminating manual data logging yet collecting complete fuel distribution data to your central database.
- Gratify fuel truck drivers with automated, hands-free data collection.
- Mobile fuel management for all sizes—and budgets: whether you operate large tanker trucks or small transfer tanks on the back of pickup trucks, SM2 can accommodate all sizes and budgets.
-
- Gain full visibility on your operation: SM2 will track where your vehicles and equipment are, what they are doing, and notify you based on many triggers—including the statuses and activities of on-board systems , driver behavior, and geo-fence based events.
- Maximize the useful life of your vehicles: SM2 captures engine data in real-time, straight from the on-board computer. Mileage, engine hours, fault codes, idle time, and other info are fed to your maintenance management process for timely notifications.
- Improve safety by tracking and managing user behavior such as driving habits, rest periods, and proper usage of on-board systems.
- Reduce costs: SM2 helps minimize vehicle and equipment breakdowns and will facilitate potentially massive savings in vehicle insurance premiums.
-
- Guarantee emergency power when it's most needed by monitoring fuel levels and other important data from a central dashboard. Refuel only where and when needed.
- Get immediately notified by email and SMS of critical events such as fuel level thresholds, fuel temperature, low and overfill alarms, and leak alarms.
- Prevent costly and unsafe downtime by capturing accurate generator runtime for timely preventive maintenance work only where and when needed.
-
- Extend your vehicles' reliability, minimize compliance issues, boost safety: multi-trigger preventive maintenance and inspection plans precisely tailored to each vehicle's usage profile get it done.
- Put the brakes on costs: track parts and labor consumed with detailed work order management; maximize warranty recovery with traceable part numbers; tame the scourge of shrinkage by easily reconciling inventory to consumption.
- Avoid the headaches of large, complex systems: Keep It Simple and Smart with easy to use browser based software that delivers all the functions you need.
- Who likes to spend their time cleansing bad data? Automated vehicle data capture saves you time and money—feed accurate data to those weighty backend ERP systems.
-
- Keep premises and specific zones secure: SM2 can be configured to restrict access to specific areas in order to protect valuable equipment, sensitive information, etc.
- Minimize shrinkage and theft: restrict access to stock, parts, expensive tools, etc., thus tightening your inventory management.
- Ensure your workers' safety: with SM2, you can automatically control exits from the yard based on each vehicle's maintenance status, driver qualification/authorization to operate the unit, whether the vehicle is scheduled for work, and many other parameters.
- Keep track of attendance and hours worked with SM2's electronic punch clock. Feed this data easily to your payroll system.
Eyes on the Prize: Tracking Fuel in Transit
Once a tanker truck hits the road, you have little visibility on what happens with its valuable cargo. Does it follow the route it is supposed to? Does it make unplanned stops along the way? Does the fuel storage level change at some point before reaching its destination?
These are all crucial questions for obvious reasons. Fuel is expensive and if it goes missing, you must find out about it lest a significant and ongoing cash drain goes unnoticed. Let SM2 seal it with state-of-the-art asset tracking technology.
Account for Every Drop of Fuel: Automated Fuel Inventory Management
The immense volumes of fuel consumed by mining operations represent a significant ongoing cost which must be tracked and accounted for. This is a real challenge, however, when fuel is delivered to depots before being distributed to various sites and field equipment throughout the mine. SM2's got you covered: leading edge fuel management technology is how we got our start 30 years ago and we haven't stopped leading the way since.
Our highly automated fuel management system guarantees you can account for every drop of fuel with extreme precision and less time: storage tanks are easily and efficiently managed while the finance department gets all the information it needs.
STREAMLINE Your FUELING Operations: AUTOMATED FUEL DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT
Operating fueling sites comes with some headaches: added maintenance, environmental compliance issues, concern for theft, and others.
Whether you operate 1 or 100's of sites, SM2 unburdens you of associated management chores, putting you firmly in control of in-house fueling. And any of our clients will tell you it does this with high levels of automation and reliability.
CLOSE A BIG LOOPHOLE: AUTOMATED FUEL TRUCK MANAGEMENT
While job site refueling may be absolutely necessary for most construction companies, tracking it accurately can be challenging. Fuel trucks easily turn into accountability holes in an otherwise tight management system. How much of that fuel goes where is a question mark for accountants and a thorn in your side.
SM2 completely solves the issue, enabling you to account for every drop pumped out of your tanker trucks during job site fuel runs.
VEHICLE TRACKING AND DRIVER'S LOG
Are vehicle breakdowns caused by driver behavior? Is the safety of everyone respected? Are fleet assets used for company business? Are they where they are supposed to be?
Tracking assets' activities enables you to measure in order to manage. Costs can be minimized, behaviors and patterns can be adjusted when required.
SM2's real-time asset tracking offers unparalleled integration with other elements of your fleet's operation. What you get is a holistic approach to fleet tracking and management.
SAVE TIME AND LABOR WITH REMOTE MONITORING OF DAY TANKS AND GENERATOR SETS
Remote generators present a bit of a challenge. You have little visibility on them but at the same time, they tend to power equipment or buildings critical to your projects or operation. You need to be sure they are in running order and fueled up.
You can of course dispatch periodic check-ups and fuel runs to ensure things run smoothly when needed. But let us suggest a more cost effective alternative: SM2 can be there so you don't have to be.
Elevate YOUR Operation's Productivity THROUGH EXPERT FLEET MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT
Unexpected equipment breakdowns at a mine are a serious concern. Even short-lived interruptions in operation can cost millions. Not to mention the paramount issue of safety.
A smoothly running fleet is essential to employee safety and to delivering the high productivity levels that mining operations demand. It's thus more important than ever for you to execute a capable preventive fleet maintenance program as a means to elevate your equipment's' reliability, safety, and performance.
Fleet managers in the mining sector can use SM2 to streamline all aspects of maintenance management, achieving a finely tuned equipment fleet ever ready for work.
ACCESS CONTROL AND TIME TRACKING
You may have personnel dedicated to controlling access to mines and assets. But security staff cannot manage certain important elements. For instance whether or not a vehicle exiting the premises is due for critical maintenance work.
Controlling the ins and outs of your facilities ensures that only authorized personnel can access your yard(s) and building(s). It also enables you to restrict access to different zones based on employee qualifications, security clearance, and preconfigured schedules and holidays.
As important: since SM2 fully and seamlessly integrates access control with fleet maintenance management, you can make sure vehicles with overdue critical maintenance stay do not go out. This is crucial to ensuring your workers' safety, and minimizing insurance costs and liability.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Mining Fleets
How can a GPS improve mining and energy fleet operations?
The efficiency and operational reliability of your mining operations are vital to ensure profitability for the company. Equipment failure means downtime and reduced production. This is costly. Fuel is also a significant expense in your operating budget. GPS solutions offer many benefits to the fleet manager, such as:
- Monitor and reduce idling time to reduce fuel costs.
- Efficient route planning will reduce the fuel consumption of your heavy equipment, such as haul trucks.
- Schedule timely maintenance around production demands by monitoring your asset’s hours of operation and idling time.
- Reduce accidents and insurance premiums by restricting equipment and vehicle operation to only authorized and adequately trained.
- As mines age, profitability drops and the information a GPS offers can extend the period of profitable operations.
- Know what is happening in real-time in your remote field operations from the comfort of your office.
How can I cut down on fuel consumption for my mining fleet?
Many solutions exist, and they will depend on your mining operations. While most answers can relate to any fleet, your company presents unique opportunities.
- Utilize a sound fleet fuel tracking technology.
- Reduce idling time of haul trucks and loading equipment.
- Monitor and suggest the most efficient routes.
- Maintain proper tire pressures.
- Avoid excessive braking and acceleration.
- Timely and regular fleet maintenance.
- Utilizing the right vehicle/equipment for the task.