| Title | Automation of boring machines: chapter 10 - Short Course on Hardrock Boring |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Tervo, R |
| Source | Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology, Mining Research Laboratories, Division Report MRL 90-088 (OP), 1990, 16 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/328625  Open Access |
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| Year | 1990 |
| Publisher | Energy, Mines and Resources Canada |
| Meeting | Short Course on Hardrock Boring; Sudbury, ON; CA; October 2-4, 1990 |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | paper; on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf |
| Subjects | Science and Technology; Education and Training; mining; Automation |
| Illustrations | schematic diagrams |
| Released | 1990 08 01; 2021 07 20 |
| Abstract | During the past twenty years, raise borer manufacturers have continually improved their machines, and users have made advances in their operating techniques. An articulated rod handler relieves the
operator of a heavy and onerous task in adding or removing drill rods. Machine condition monitors can keep a check on oil temperatures and levels, and shut the machine down if limits are exceeded. Reliable economical, carefully programmed controllers
(PLC's) or small computers may be used to aid the operators to reduce maintenance costs, and to increase machine life and availability.
A computer controlled raise borer was successfully used in 1983, with significant improvements in performance.
Further progress may be made by applying the techniques of expert systems which will provide the correct response to changing machine conditions, or to variable ground, as effectively as a highly skilled operator, but perhaps more quickly. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 328625 |
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