Where value leaks on each fleet management platform.
Most losses are not in the software. They sit in how a system is configured, coded, connected and used. TBOS works for the mine, whichever platform it runs.
Fleet management platforms
Where value tends to leak on each.
These are patterns common to fleet management deployments, grouped by platform for orientation. They are not claims of TBOS project experience on each system; that is listed only where a consultant has confirmed it.
MineStar Fleet
Caterpillar
Caterpillar's fleet management suite covering assignment, production recording, machine health and, in its wider family, autonomy.
Common patterns
- Assignment rules and road network left as configured at go-live
- Health events not connected to maintenance response
- Delay and status coding inconsistent across crews
DISPATCH
Hexagon (Modular Mining)
Modular Mining's long-established dispatch system with real-time optimisation of truck assignments, now part of Hexagon's mining portfolio.
Common patterns
- Optimiser priorities and travel-time models out of step with the pit
- High manual override rates in the control room
- Blending and material constraints that no longer reflect the plan
Wenco Fleet Management
Wenco (Hitachi Construction Machinery)
Wenco's fleet management system for dispatch, production, maintenance and data, with an open, interoperable architecture.
Common patterns
- Reporting configured around history rather than in-shift decisions
- Status definitions that differ between operations and maintenance
- Interfaces to other site systems that were never completed
Other and mixed fleets
Various
Mixed OEM fleets, regional systems, and sites running more than one platform during a transition.
Common patterns
- Two systems measuring the same fleet differently
- Transitions that leave data gaps between platforms
- Integration handled by spreadsheets
Layers
What we look at, whatever the platform.
An FMS depends on everything around it. A review follows a loss through every layer until it finds the cause.
- Dispatch and optimisation
- Assignment logic, priorities, travel-time models, control-room practice.
- Positioning and guidance
- GPS accuracy, location and polygon definitions, high-precision machine guidance.
- Network and communications
- Coverage, latency and the infrastructure the system depends on.
- Machine health
- Alarms, events and how quickly they reach maintenance.
- Production data and reporting
- Time-usage model, delay coding, KPIs and reconciliation.
- People and routines
- Operators, dispatchers and supervisors using the system to run the shift.
Where is your FMS losing tonnes?
Tell us what you are seeing. TBOS will come back with a scoped review, what it would examine first, and what we need from site.