Load & Haul
Load & Haul
Overview
Optimize load & haul operations to reduce costs and improve mine safety
Your load and haul processes are not just a critical operation in your mine —it’s the engine of your business success. When optimized, they drive efficiency and productivity, boost output, and trim waste.
By improving equipment utilization and handling, opportunities to reduce downtime and improve the load and haul process are vast – leading to substantial cost savings by reducing machinery wear and fuel use. However, when neglected, they can have a negative knock-on effect for every single part of the mining value chain.
Beyond operational efficiency and productivity, top-tier load and haul operations enhance profitability and safety. A continuous flow of operational data should assist your managers to make better decisions, allowing management to course correct operational decisions in real time.
Key Client Challenges:
- How do we ensure operators are using equipment effectively and safely to reduce downtime?
- Are our haul roads optimally designed and maintained?
- How can we optimize the load-haul-dump cycle by leveraging sensors and monitoring systems?
- How do we ensure compliance with safety protocols during hot shift changes?
- How can we better anticipate and manage operational delays and truck queues using data and real-time insights?
- How do we mitigate environmental risks such as land disturbances and dust generation that impact surrounding communities?
Key Indicators in Load & Haul
When assessing how optimized your current load-and-haul operation at your mine, the following are key indicators to consider:
- Equipment match factor
- Bucket fill factor
- Loading conditions
- Loading cycle time
- Time utilization
- Deviations from schedule
How Unison Mining Can Help
To achieve the sweet spot of maximum output with minimum effort in your load and haul operations, it’s essential to focus on nine critical success factors – road management, effective cycle management, hot shift change, payload improvement, management of operational delays, vulnerabilities and risks, queue management, fragmentation strategy, and cycle implementation and management.
Our Unison Mining experts work with you to tackle each of these factors by creating enduring behavior changes that lead to lasting impact. By working with your team, equipment, data, and processes, we identify opportunities to enhance your load and haul processes at every point in the cycle – laying the foundation for long-term improvements.
Lacking data to validate or support key business decisions
Lack of knowledge to define a cohesive business or data strategy
Low speed to market and trouble adapting quickly to customer and market needs
High operational costs due to lengthy data processing times
OTHER LOAD AND HAUL SERVICES
Road Management
Cycle Time Management
Payload Improvement
Delay Management
Queue Management
Fragmentation Strategy
Data & Analytics Strategy
Dispatch Strategies
Dispatch Optimization
Pit Conditions
Pre-Spotting & Double-Sided Loading
WHY UNISON MINING
Experience
Our mining experts have experienced first-hand the day-to-day complexities and issues that arise at the mining face, giving them a higher level of understanding and insight to meet your challenges.
Practical Solutions
By implementing level-appropriate transformation tools, our behavioral and cultural change methodologies, data management, and analytics, our goal is to create a sustainable and positive impact on your mining operations.
Results-driven
We go beyond strategy to offer a direct and measurable approach to success. Our commitment extends to delivering real business outcomes and helping your team sustain those changes for the long haul.
