Monitor
Monitor anything that matters to your mine in real-time.
Manage
Manage anything that matters to your mine in real-time.
Optimise
Optimise anything that matters to your mine in real-time.
Tailings Dam Monitoring
What It Is? The RAMJACK Tailings Dam Monitoring System consists of piezometers and other geotechnical instruments (such as extensometers, inclinometers, pressure cells and geo-resistivity monitors) that communicate wirelessly to a central…
Ground Water Monitoring
What It Is? The RAMJACK Ground Water Monitoring System consists of piezometers communicating in real-time to a central server. Open pit and certain underground operations require a vast array of…
Backfill Monitoring
What It Is? The RAMJACK Backfill Monitoring System is comprised of two different types of Vibrating Wire (VW) pressure monitoring sensors, which are used in concert to measure the performance…
Rock Stress Monitoring
The System The RAMJACK Rock Stress Monitoring System delivers wireless telemetry of vibrating wire stress meter data to a control room. This data allows for the direct measurement of: Stress…
Rock Movement Monitoring
What It Is? The RAMJACK Rock Movement Monitoring System consists of the real-time monitoring of extensometers that are either active (instrumented cable bolt) or passive (MPBX – Multipoint Borehole Extensometers)…
Seismic Monitoring
What It Is? A Seismic Monitoring System consists of installing geophones and listening for the sound of the rock cracking under stress. Data from an array of geophones is used…
Air Quality Monitoring
What It Is? RAMJACK Air Quality Monitoring Systems are composed of an array of fixed and wireless all-in-one gas sensors that measure readings at the face and relay that information…
Equipment, Personnel and Asset Tracking
What It Is? For any operating mine, tracking the location of equipment, personnel and assets on an interactive map is critical to ensuring efficient and safe production. Mines have employed…
Payload Monitoring
What It Is? The ability to monitor payload accurately, reliably and at a moment in time so that it can improve productivity has eluded the industry for decades. Original Equipment…
Proximity Detection Systems
What It Is? The RAMJACK Proximity Detection System consists of real-time devices that communicate peer-to-peer to provide situational awareness information to equipment operators and miners in real time. These systems…
Vehicle Health Monitoring
What It Is? Vehicle Health Monitoring Systems use purpose-built, rugged data telemetry devices that interface with the CANBUS on a wide range of mobile equipment and fixed plant machinery. These…
Personnel (COVID-19) Health Monitoring
What It Is? The COVID-19 global pandemic has resulted in production shutdowns, freedom of movement restrictions and health scares – all having a dramatic impact on the world’s health statistics…
Fatigue Management
What It Is? Completely eliminating fatigue incidents in heavy industry requires a predictive monitoring solution that empowers operators to manage their own alertness, based on real-time information provided by scientifically…
Fleet Management
What It Is? Fleet Management Systems (FMS) have been standard practice in open-pit mining for decades. Since the DISPATCH System was first introduced by Modular Mining in 1979, large surface…
Production Management
What It Is? Being competitive in today’s mining and metals industry requires advancing beyond Fleet Management Systems to achieve the lowest cost per tonne. RAMJACK’s Production Management Systems are designed…
Short Interval Control
What It Is? Despite the recent popularity of the term Short Interval Control (SIC), the concept of ‘managing by objectives’ through goal setting, regular evaluation and informed action has been…
Process Execution Management
What It Is? The key objective of a RAMJACK Process Execution Management System is to automatically generate critical tasks – across equipment types – to ensure efficient allocation of resources…
Machine Guidance & Mine Automation
What It Is? The implementation of Machine Guidance and Mine Automation Solutions solves many important challenges for mining operations, including improved safety, increased productivity and reduced variability. Numerous options exist…
Ventilation Management & Fan Control
What It Is? A RAMJACK Ventilation Management Solution (also known as Ventilation On Demand) consists of pulling together a Personnel and Equipment Tracking System, an Air Quality Monitoring System and…
Mine Dewatering & Pump Control
What It Is? RAMJACK’s Mine Dewatering & Pump Control System allows operators to monitor underground water tables and reservoirs in real-time in order to ensure safe levels as well as…
Collision Avoidance
What It Is? RAMJACK’s Collision Avoidance System (CAS) has been developed and deployed in one of the world’s most demanding mining environments – South Africa. South Africa was the first…
Evacuation & Rescue
What It Is? The mining industry has long recognised that tracking people and equipment is a valuable thing. But most mines don’t sustain a “tracking for the sake of tracking”…
Fuel Management
What It Is? Fuel is the lifeline of any operation. Without it, equipment won’t run and production can’t happen. Fuel is one of the most important consumables to a mine…
Visualization & Information Management
Accurate knowledge informs good decisions. In a mine, all too often, the information needed to make good decisions is not available. And, even when the information is available, the context…
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Mining has a direct or indirect effect on just about every other industry in the world – it provides the raw materials that drive manufacturing, it is the first step…
Remote Operations Centre Services
What It Is? The operation of an advanced production or safety system in a mine will experience one or all of the following typical barriers, preventing full value realisation: Misalignment…
Technology Selection & Implementation Services
What It Is? RAMJACK bridges the gap between mine operators working in challenging markets and original technology manufacturers who build best-of-breed technologies. With extensive experience with technology in mining, RAMJACK…
Technology Strategy & Road Map Services
What It Is? For any mining operation, sustainable competitiveness means maintaining high levels of efficiency, productivity, and safety – under challenging conditions – all the time. This isn’t easy, and…