29 kesä Sandvik: Ideal Rock Factory
Name: Ideal Rock Factory
Acronym: IRF
Duration: 1.2.2013 – 31.12.2016
Total costs (€)/Tekes support: 40 M€ / Tekes support 10 M€
Organisation:Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy
Contact person: Pasi Julkunen , Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy, pasi.julkunen(at)sandvik.com
www: www.miningandconstruction.sandvik.com/fi
Research organization partners: VTT, TUT, Aalto, LTU, UO
Company partners (main partners): Kilosoft Oy, Leadin Oy, Creanex Oy, Symbio Finland Oy, Wapice Oy, Comatec Oy, Etteplan Design Center Oy, Cybercom Finland Oy, Bitwise Oy, Elomatic Oy, Mudonmuutos Oy, Lehti Group Oy, Synocus Oy,
International partners: CRC Mining, Bosch Engineering, University of Queensland, University of Newcastle, Curtin University Kalgoorlie, Bruker
Need and motivation of the project: Change decreasing customer productivity and shrinking OEM volumes from threat to opportunity
Main set targets:
- Achieve technology leadership by developing technology platforms and superior ecosystem based on mine as rock factory concept.
- The IRF concept offers to mining customers sustainable solutions and services for total productivity.
- Achieve higher growth of sales than market growth.
Key results and impact
Ecosystem development => partners growth towards global competiveness
Universities, VTT and several SME’s integrated for growth via demanding technology challenges, technology sourcing for long term
Rock Factory as system => Mine productivity improvement
Real time 3D Cloud mapping/navi- system , MWD and Rock Pulse for real time rock detection, Several machine remote drilling
All Electric Mine => new energy concepts, differentiation, safety
Battery based technology proven in machines in the Sandvik Test Mine, CRC Mining Electric mine infra preparation
Solution technologies for Rock Factory => building features between machine and mine system
Hoseless boom, digital rock drills, Feasibility studies for mapping future options, robot boom concept, efficiency of DTH Hammers
Technology enabling business models => turning technology development to business
Technology strategy built in connection of technology transformation and business models, Ore Flow Opt. / 8 times larger business
Commercialization status:
- New technology platform based drilling machines moving to pilot sales stage (face drilling & long hole drilling)
- Battery powered technology in drills and loaders moved to NPD phase
- Test Mine infra in Tampere anchored Drilling business in Finland (supporting technology projects outside funding program)
- Rock mass detection during drilling in commercialization phase
- Enlarged AutoMine offering by new technology initiatives
Number of patents and patent applications:
Patents applications IRF 2.1.2013 – 11.5.2016: 191 pcs from which 9 generated 9 patents