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DIGITALISATION AS A PART OF SUSTAINABILITY TARGETS Digitalisation is one of the biggest drivers of change in the industrial sector, extending to the productivity and sustainability performance of drilling and blasting operations as well. In FORCIT Group, we have strong focus on developing a wider portfolio of digital services and products. Recent innovations and R&D drivers have concentrated on questions of
how we can serve our customers to achieve their sustainability targets. FORCIT Group provides digital tools like O-PitSurface and O-Pitdev, and those can be used in many ways to reduce the environmental impact of drilling and blasting operations. The efforts to optimise
the blasting results using digital products can have multiple positive implications on the sustainability performance of downstream processes. OPTIMISATION IS KEY FOR SUSTAINABILITY
By optimising the fragmentation curve, muck pile shape, and diggability, it is possible to influence the fuel and electricity consumption of loading and thus decrease carbon footprint. At the same time, the need for secondary breakage is also reduced. Digital 3D scanning of the blasted face together with hole deviation measurements can be used to adapt the blast design to field conditions and ensure the quality of the operation and the results. The picture below presents a typical situation encountered on the bench, where two holes are extremely close to each other as a result of drilling inaccuracies. From a sustainability point of view, this phenomenon has some clear risks, such as malfunctions of the explosive, which may lead to unproper fragmentation and increased emissions to the air and water.
Hole deviation control and burden relief analysis with O-PitSurface blast design software.
Sustainability in short
