Lokotrack® - Intelligence for increased performance

Lokotrack®
Intelligence for increased performance
Metso Fleet Management
Intelligence for increased
performance
Metso Fleet Management saves your valuable time and
increases your profits. The Fleet Management comprises the
Lokotrack® process control system (Metso IC™), a satellite link,
and the Metso DNA Report portal.
Save time
Collecting operating hours and other data manually is time consuming. Metso DNA
Report portal automatically provides daily operating data, wherever you are.
Maintenance, the ordering of spares & wears, and re-fueling can all be organized in
a more effective way when you know the exact consumptions and operating hours
of individual units.
Parameter changes have a direct effect on the crushing and screening process. The
changes are recorded in the Metso DNA Report portal. Alarms indicate problems
or upcoming maintenance. By having access to the information in the portal,
you can better predict and plan for upcoming maintenance tasks and even avoid
unplanned break-downs.
Increase profitability
In the Metso DNA Report portal, you can compare data between the units over
days or weeks, and you can set targets for energy consumption or utilization rates.
By providing operator training, efficiency can be improved and your assets better
utilized.
Repeating alarms due the misuse of the unit cannot be hidden anymore. With
Metso Fleet Management, you have the keys to guide operators to use Lokotrack in
the proper way and preserve the value of your investment.
The location of the unit can be tracked on a map on a daily basis. As a result, wears
& spares are no longer sent to the wrong site and the planning of driving routes for
field personnel is more effective. In the rental business, you can control how the
customer operates the machine on site.
Metso ICr™
Lokotrack mobile crushing
plant control in excavator cabin
Controlling the popular Lokotrack mobile crushing plants is now safer and more convenient thanks
to the Metso ICr™ wireless information and control system that is operated from the cabin of the
excavator feeding the crusher. Because the operator is no longer required to leave the excavator as
often as before, Metso ICr makes excavation work much safer for the operator.
The Lokotrack® LT106™ mobile jaw plant operated by Pärhä Ltd. in Finland can be safely controlled from the cabin of an excavator using a
wireless connection.
“Safer work”
The first serially produced Metso ICr remote monitoring system was installed in Pärhä Ltd.’s Lokotrack
LT106 mobile jaw plant in late summer 2013. Pärhä Ltd. is a family-owned business that produces
gravel and soil products, and LT106 is the company’s first Metso-produced crushing plant.
Jari Pärhä has been happy with the Lokotrack LT106 and the Metso ICr system:
“Remote monitoring makes it easier to use the machine and to configure the capacity of the Lokotrack
LT106 to the capacity of down-stream operations. Feed operations are easy to alter on the ICr system
display according to changes in feed material.” According to Jari Pärhä, the ICr remote monitoring
system makes work safer thanks to the reduced need for the operator to walk between the excavator
and crusher.
Metso ICr provides process information and control for the operator
• Color display in excavator cabin
• Wireless connection to excavator cabin
• Wireless interlocking between the units
• Safer crushing
• Superior feed
rate control
• Wireless solution
• Superior feed rate control for maximized production
• Setting adjustment for specific Lokotrack plants
Metso's new ICr™ remote monitoring display is easy to attach
to the excavator’s side window using suction cups
Metso DNA
Automation solution for Lokotrack
plants
A plant-wide Metso DNA automation system comes
with bespoke process controls for feeders, crushers,
conveyors, screens, and hoppers. The process controls
comprise automatic controls for feed rate, material
re-circulation rate, and crusher load. Target values for the
automatic controls are set in the control room and they
are gathered as production recipes that can be easily
created, edited, and uploaded by operators. The process
controls stabilize plant operations by compensating for
disturbances due to variations in rock sizes, quality, moisture, crusher wear, process equipment malfunctions, and
human actions. As a result, an aggregate production site
starts to produce more than ever.
The control cabin with its displays provides real-time process information
and camera images that allow the operator to handle the whole site from
rock feeding to end-product piles.
The reporting system provides reports on daily/weekly/monthly production rates, plant uptime rates, plant efficiency, energy consumption, crusher
parameter history, and automation utility rate. The recorded process data
allows process behavior, production interruptions, operator actions, and
plant performance to be monitored continuously.
All crushing and screening equipment require consistent maintenance
in terms of systematic checks, service actions, and the use of spare parts.
Maintenance scheduler software ensures the consistent and documented
maintenance of Metso equipment.
Process cameras are an easy way to provide a real-time line of sight for
process locations that are difficult or even hazardous to enter for an operator,
or simply impossible to see due to dust or darkness.
"It's in our DNA" - The complete mobile plant automation solution
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"The primary crusher feeds the LT300GPS gyratory crusher in the usual way, from where the fine material is separated through the scalper to
the LT300GPB fine machine. We control this special process effortlessly with Metso DNA. If problems occur, the process does not have to stop
completely because we can easily change the control to be adjusted on the Lokotrack IC side", comments Toni Hirvelä, Crushing Manager of
Takanen MR.
The world's first automated Lokotrack plant at Takanen MR
Comprehensive automation is becoming an essential part of mobile crushing and screening equipment. The construction and crushing
professional Takanen MR Ltd. from Sievi, Finland controls the crushing chain of three Lokotrack plants with the Metso DNA automation
system. The experiences are positive. Takanen’s crushing chain comprises a Lokotrack LT120 primary crushing jaw unit and parallel Lokotrack
LT300GPS and LT300GPB gyratory crushers.
"With Metso's automation, we ensure the best process capacities and, at the same time, improve the working comfort and safety of our
operators. In addition, the remote monitoring is handy because from our office we can see in real-time all the operations at the quarry site
such as the active crushing period, capacities, and fuel consumption”, says Juha Takanen, Managing Director of Takanen MR.
Benefits of Metso DNA
• Process stability and efficiency
• Flexibility for different endproducts
• Working from a safe and comfortable control cabin
• Enabling production management remotely
• Just-in-time scheduled maintenance services
Metso satellite modem
enables data transfer
wherever you operate.
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Metso Mining and Construction, Lokomonkatu 3, P.O. Box 306, FI-33101 Tampere, Finland, tel. +358 20 484 142, fax +358 20 484 143
www.metso.com
Metso, Lokotrack, Nordberg, Barmac and, Trellex are trademarks or registered trademarks of Metso Corporation or its subsidiaries or affiliates.
*Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
Subject to alteration without prior notice, Brochure No. 3021-06-14-CSE/Tampere-English,
© 2014 Metso, Printed in Finland
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