Partnering For Dragline Success

DEVELOPMENT of world-first simulator training technology by Immersive Technologies and has been recognised at the third Annual Australian Mining Prospect Awards in Brisbane.

The two companies received the Innovative Mining Solution award for the Advanced Equipment Dragline Simulator now being used at Anglo Coal’s Callide coal mine in Queensland.

The award recognised both the “real mining improvements” made with the technology at Callide, and the technical breakthroughs achieved to enable realistic simulation of complex machine dynamics and ground interaction previously seen as too difficult.

Callide mine manager Rod Burgess said the AE Dragline Simulator at the mine was the first simulator of its type to be successfully developed and introduced at a mining operation anywhere in the world.

“We have used simulators for training operators of mining equipment such as trucks and excavators, but the complexity of a dragline made developing a simulator much more challenging,” he said.