Greg Ladewig, Regional Manager, MineWare

This presentation will explore the critical link between loader productivity, operator performance and the overall cost of mining as far as:

  • How the performance of material loading assets – such as draglines, shovels and excavators – heavily influences the success of the downstream mining processes;
  • Why inefficiencies on the front end have dramatic repercussions to the overall value stream; and
  • Why the variation in performance between operators on loading equipment will continue to significantly affect the success factor for the whole load-and-haul process.
  • There are three key dimensions to loader productivity under the loading operators’ control including payload compliance, mine plan compliance and machine damage management.