Heavy equipment operators have a direct impact on the profitability and safety of mining operations. From tyre wear and fuel usage, through to ore loaded and hauled to safety incidents. As a team, your mine workforce has the ability to substantially reduce costs, increase tonnage and improve safety. The CYBERMINE Workforce Excellence (WX) platform means there’s finally a way to measure and ensure that your mine benefits from this impact to your bottom line.

CYBERMINE WX (pronounced WeX) closes the loop between heavy equipment operator performance in the field and the tailored training interventions required to improve that performance in the classroom. WX is both a mine workforce performance analysis tool, analysing operators’ operational performance in real-time, and a mine learning management system. It is continuously at work, 24 hours per day 7 days per week, performing its workforce optimisation process for every operator in your heavy equipment workforce. In a short space of time WX will ensure that your heavy equipment operators achieve and then maintain optimal performance levels as measured by the key mine performance indicators of costs, productivity and safety.

“WeX is all about the power of technology and the potential of people.”

REPORTS, GRAPHS AND BENCHMARKS FROM THE CLOUD

WX provides multiple, customisable reporting options. Operational performance data for an individual operator, complete shift or the entire mine workforce can be graphed and benchmarked against pre-set standards, peers, other shifts or even other sites. In addition, projected certificate decay for an individual operator or the entire workforce on one or multiple mine sites can be graphically portrayed against required mine or group standards. And because WX data is stored in the cloud, this functionality is available to anyone with access permission on any Internet-enabled device.

INTEGRATED TRAINING AND OPERATIONS

WX integrates seamlessly with the entire CYBERMINE training product range, creating a new state-of-the-art portal for defining Certificates, setting up the Courses required to achieve certification and the Activities which are part of each course. Heavy equipment operator training can range from classroom tuition through E-learning and Operator Familiarisation Training to Full Mission Simulation and even ‘side-saddle’ training.

CYBERMINE TRAINING TECHNOLOGY AND WX

CYBERMINE E-learning, Operator Familiarisation Trainers and Full Mission Simulators are the core training tools that form an integral part of the training management system within WX. They ensure that the trainee mine operator progresses quickly from a new recruit to a safe and efficient heavy equipment operator. Each performance measurement and training intervention has been specifically designed to fulfil different stages in advancing the mine operator through the learning process. WX helps instructors track every mine operator moving through the learning management system. These technologies have been proven to better analyse and schedule training interventions for heavy equipment operators than current, conventional training methods.

E-LEARNING (CBT)

CYBERMINE E-learning will interactively lead novice heavy equipment operators through successive interactive modules, reinforcing and evaluating the various building blocks of essential theoretical knowledge. This knowledge is required in order to effectively and safely operate mining equipment on site. E-learning systems have evolved considerably over the years and ThoroughTec prides itself in staying ahead of the market as new technologies and methods emerge.

OPERATOR FAMILIARISATION TRAINER (OFT)

The OFT is a supplementary system, intended to develop and entrench advanced, mine operator psycho-motor skills. The operator is taken through detailed exercises via an advanced interactive touchscreen incorporated with the cab’s controls. Designed to accommodate those CYBERMINE high-fidelity interchangeable vehicle cabs not actively engaged in high-fidelity full-mission simulator training, it guarantees complete mine operator orientation within and familiarity with their heavy equipment.

FULL MISSION SIMULATOR (FMS)

The FMS is the flagship training tool of the CYBERMINE product range. It utlilises visual, auditory and tactile feedback to create a realistic sensation of operating heavy equipment on a mine site to effectively train mine operators to be safe and proficient at all times. By concentrating on specific tasks and being continuously monitored, trainee operators receive accelerated ‘practical’ training in a safe and controlled environment, optimising their productivity and eliminating bad habits at the outset.