Volumetric Scanning – Better, More Accurate Data To Improve Truck Performance

At a glance: 

• Optimises truck loading with precise 3D volume profiling.
• Enables real-time scanning and reporting for immediate decision-making.
• Ensures highly accurate measurements, eliminating inaccuracies from traditional methods.
• Increases profitability by reducing costs and streamlining operations with minimal maintenance.

Volume scanners (Mining Truck Volumetric Scanner) are becoming the industry standard in sectors relying on shifting bulk material. The civil construction, mining, and quarrying industries are all-embracing volumetric scanning because of their high accuracy and ability to provide information-rich reports and traceability.

Traditional methods of determining haulage volumes include measuring stockpile levels with surveying equipment, counting loader buckets, or counting trucks. These methods are often inaccurate and open to dispute. In contrast, Volumetric Scanner systems scan a truck tray’s load volume through an elevated scan head. As the truck crosses through the area below the scan head, the laser scanners perform thousands of distance measurements per second to provide an accurate and detailed data analysis of the load volume.

Precision Data with Volumetric Scanning

Optimising Truck Loading Using 3D Profiling

Every mining company wants to ensure their truck is optimally loaded at capacity. One of the most significant benefits of using volumetric scanners is using 3D volume profiling, which provides the opportunity for enhanced load optimisation. Truck capacity is fully utilised while safety and compliance factors, such as overloading or poor load configuration, are also addressed.

The 3D visual profile of volume scanning systems is designed to provide accurate volume measurements of the material loaded each time, which can facilitate loader operators’ loading to the correct capacity.

Real-time Scanning and Reporting Of Load Data

The efficient and modern software of Volumetric Scanners is designed to streamline your measuring system and filling process. As the truck passes through the scanned area, the software auto-scans the load and provides near real-time outputs to the industrial data network through a responsive multithreaded technology, with calculations of critical production parameters in less than 10 seconds.

Using volumetric scanners, you can calculate and communicate real-time data and key metrics for immediate feedback and decision-making when loading each truck.

Highly Accurate Measurement

If you are purchasing, selling, and hauling bulk material on trucks, it is essential that you have an accurate measurement system in place – an issue that is one of the greatest challenges for the mining industry.

Volumetric Scanners use an innovative, drive-through, non-contact scanning system that measures volume with complete accuracy every time. An empty truck is scanned, and its unique profile is recorded in the load scan database. With any future load, the truck’s volume is easily calculated using the difference of the pre-recorded scan profile.

This also ensures there won’t be any weight conversion inaccuracies due to moisture content, compaction, or loading variation. The system eliminates false load counting caused by inaccurate human error.

Increase In Profit With Reduced Costs

Using load-optimising volumetric scanning also provides for real-time reporting and accurate measurement, optimised time performance and reduced human resources costs. The simplicity of the scanning system means it requires minimal maintenance, and even unskilled operators can quickly learn to use the technology.

In conclusion, the integration of volumetric scanning technology marks a pivotal shift in the efficiency and accuracy of bulk material management within industries such as civil construction, mining, and quarrying.

By harnessing the power of precision data through 3D profiling, real-time scanning, and reporting capabilities, volumetric scanners offer unparalleled advantages in optimising truck loading, ensuring safety and compliance, and mitigating costly inaccuracies associated with traditional measurement methods.

Moreover, these systems’ inherent simplicity and reliability not only streamline operations but also translate into tangible cost savings and increased profitability. As the industry standard continues to evolve, embracing volumetric scanning represents not just an investment in technology but a strategic imperative for maximising productivity, minimising risks, and driving sustainable growth in the shifting landscape of bulk material transportation and management.