CATMine: software aplicativo para android voltado ao desempenho de caminhões caterpillar (769D/789C/797F) como proposta para aquisição de patente

Abstract

The mining investments are made at cost of the deposit, the investment in mineral exploration investment in the development, purchase of equipment and buildings. Seek to minimize costs and maximize profits is the fundamental principle that underpins the mining industry. In this context, efficiency and time are put together, ie the time to perform a given operation. A wrong decision results in high costs and loss energy / time in the process. Earthmoving operations conducted at the mine and mining are high costs, because the operation is often done only by practice and habituation of the operator. In this sense, we tried to adopt, through the pre-defined conditions of the work area and operation, the working environment more efficient and less costly to operate logistics and allocation of material and ore. Thus, starting from abacuses trucks 769D, 789C and 797F of the manual production Caterpillar sought a path to a better performance of each machine.However, the job of handling and tables printed Abacuses make it impossible to usein loco. Therefore, we developed a software application to provide fast, accurate answers on the time required. The program, called "CATMine" is an application designed to run on Android operating systems (from version 2.2) and is based in abacuses truck CAT off roads (769D, 789C and 797F), with different capacities to cover small medium to large operations using them.TheCATMine features show from predefined variables, the following results: effort required that the truck needs to win to move, the march to be employed in the operation, the speed to be adopted and the estimated time for the displacement of the truck.