New Wabtec Collision Avoidance System Sets High Bar for Safety and Efficiency in the Mining Industry

Gen-3 CAS Features Predictive Curved-Beam Breakthrough and Contextual Alert Innovation

Playing with the “big” boys

While spot prices of metal and mineral commodities ebb and flow according to supply and demand, the combined market capitalization of the world’s top 50 mining companies remains massive, approaching $1.5 trillion in Q2 2024 (source: Mining.com).

Simply put, mining is “big” business in every sense of the word: its outputs power many economic segments and industries; it requires large-scale capital investment; and even the equipment it deploys is huge.

Consider a mid-size mining operation. Its fleet can typically consist of at least 250 pieces of heavy equipment, perhaps 60 of which would be haul trucks. And while the pick-up truck and “16-wheeler” drivers of the world may like to think they are operating “big rigs,” at 25-feet tall, with seven-foot high wheels, these mining haul trucks make the others look like toys.

And it doesn’t stop there. These haul trucks pale in comparison to other denizens of the mining operations. For example, excavators, at 35 feet in length and 30 feet in width, can pick up 80 tons of material in a single scoop.

A persistent point of failure

While the size of this equipment is appropriate for the scale of the job, it does contribute to making an active mining site among the world’s most dangerous work environments. Fortunately, ongoing innovation, increased oversight, and more deliberate planning have turned the tables on industry fatalities. Yet there remains room for improvement. Case in point, the Earth Moving Equipment Safety Round Table (EMESRT) attributes “30-40% of mining deaths each year to the failure of vehicle interaction controls.” (Emphasis ours.)

Understanding this number is way too high, the Wabtec Digital Mine team has doubled down on innovation across its mining solutions portfolio, unveiling a next-generation collision avoidance system (CAS) purpose-built to aid customers, and the mining industry as a whole, on their ‘zero harm’ journey.

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