Environmental Health & Safety (EHS)

Collision Awareness Systems:  Wabtec’s Collision Awareness solutions suite is a sophisticated and adaptable collision awareness and reporting system developed specifically for the mining industry.  CAS provides 360-degree situational awareness of objects in proximity to a heavy vehicle during stationary, slow speed and high-speed operations in order to reduce the risk of vehicle to vehicle, vehicle to infrastructure, vehicle to personnel and vehicle to environment interactions:

• All vehicles are fitted with a GPS receiver, vehicle-to-vehicle (V-V) radio link and vehicle display unit.
• The system automatically detects obstacles within critical zones around a vehicle and notifies the driver with progressive audible alerts and radar style graphic alerts on the vehicle display unit.
• Alarming is based on real-time predictive algorithms based on heading, speed, stopping distance, vehicle / object type and distance.
• Alarm rules are displayed visually providing the driver with situational awareness information in order to avoid a high-risk interaction.
• Personnel are fitted with a personnel protection tag that alarms when the person enters the programmed high-risk zone of a Heavy Vehicle.  Both the Heavy vehicle operator and personnel on the ground receive audible & visual alerts. The Personnel Protection System uses Low-Frequency-Magnetics (LFM) technology to ensure reliable detection of mine workers on the ground in close proximity to Heavy Vehicles without blind spots.
• Alarm rules are fully programmable to the mine site requirements
• Optional high accuracy RF proximity units can be used to supplement GPS proximity detection for high integrity applications.
• Up to four (4) optional ruggedized cameras can be installed on heavy mobile equipment as visual aids of high-risk blind spots.  Cameras can be programmed to automatically switch to nominated camera views based on gearing or indicator arrows or GPS / RF zone of detection.

Why Collision Awareness?

• Managing Vehicle Interaction (VI) Risk
• Increased Safety
• Cost Avoidance
• Supports add on capabilities (Integrated Safety + Productivity solutions)

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Product Deep Dive CAS Surface:

Collision Awareness Systems Differentiated Features:

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Situational Awareness

• Radar style graphic view of surrounding vehicles / objects showing ID, speed, distance, heading and vehicle / object type
• Intelligent logic with proximity detection beams reduces nuisance alarms.
• Audio, visual and voice alarms allow the operator to comprehend the source of alarms and criticality.
• Ability to advise operator about speed limits, stop signs and special geofence areas.

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Geo-Fence Capabilities

Easily defined and configured rules or actions based on geofence

• Speed limit area
• Approaching public road or stop sign
• Trigger boom gate
• Keep out area / no-go zone

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CAS WEB

Key Features:

• Web based reporting system using Microsoft SQL server database
• Generate & view interaction reports overlaid on mine site aerial photograph
• Create alerts & geofences (for no-go / exclusion zones)
• Trending analysis – used to analyse operator behaviour

Drill Guidance Systems: Safe, Accurate and Reliable Drilling Performance

Building on Wabtec's best in class Drill Guidance System, we are expanding the first stage offering in the digital mine cradle to grave mine digitization strategy, improving accuracy of borehole data and reducing "drill to data" time.  We are world’s most reliable & accurate drill-guidance system (DGS) for underground coal mining. DGS is primarily used to strategically and thoroughly drain coal seams of potentially deadly explosive gases prior to commencement.

We are continuously strengthening our offering through in-house development and third-party partnerships. Our latest advances will enable geological ore-body mapping and dewatering of open-pit mining as additional functionalities.

DGS is a Risk Mitigation Product and is Certified for use in Group I Explosive Atmospheres in several countries and is currently the Industry Leader, with proven performance for over 17 years and a Global footprint with unparalleled accuracy, it has been praised by customers as consistently “hitting targets the size of a dinner plate at 1000 meters”......

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Drill Guidance Solutions Differentiated Features:

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Drill Guidance Systems Downhole:

The DGS Downhole Unit is an I.S. MWD electronic survey instrument that is installed behind the downhole motor on the end of the drill rods.  When used during directional drilling, the Downhole Unit measures the pitch, azimuth and tool face survey information.  It sends this data as well as system information back to the DGS computer system mounted on the drill rig via the MECCA communications system installed in the drill rods. MWD means that the surveying of the drilled hole is far more efficient than other survey systems.

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DGS Touch:

DGS Touch is an Intrinsically Safe (I.S.) Measure Whilst Drilling (MWD) survey tool for Directional Drilling in underground Coal mines for gas drainage, exploration and dewatering holes.

DGS Touch is operated entirely using the Touch Screen which provides easy access to all features of the system. The intuitive software offers only the screens relevant to the current operation which increases drilling efficiency and enables the operator to very quickly access the specific functions required.

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DGS Touch is designed to provide advanced diagnostics, such as full battery management, Downhole Instrument diagnostics and MECCA line communication analysis.

DGS with Touch Screen Technology

All operations of the DGS are controlled using the touch screen and the software displays the menu buttons relevant to the current operation.

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Digital Workplace Safety

Industrial safety officers and managers are under constant pressure to create and maintain accident free environments. Digital Workplace Safety enables your existing CCTV system to recognize safety and zone violations while monitoring its own camera health. The result is vastly improved infringement and incident detection.  Wabtec’s Digital Mine’s Safety Solution combined with Stone Three Solutions provides for safety monitoring system that allow for consistent, real-time detection.  Digital Workplace Safety software processes multiple CCTV feeds simultaneously. Its ever-evolving machine learning filters (artificial intelligence) is trained to recognize – and get continuously better at recognizing:

• Safety-zone violations
• Hard hat violations
• Safety vest violations
• Protective eye wear violations
• Crowding & abnormal behavior