Scanalyse Pty Ltd is using laser scanning technology to improve the efficiency of mining and mineral processing operations.
The company’s first product, Millmapper, significantly reduces the maintenance cost of grinding mills by providing unique wear detection, monitoring and predictive intelligence.
MillMapper is an innovative terrestrial laser scanner technique for safely measuring the rate of wear of mineral processing mills for improved efficiencies and productivity.
Proprietary technology and procedures provide a fast, safe and highly accurate method of detecting and monitoring wear over time to determine optimum replacement rate of mill liners and predict costly liner failure through localised wear patterns.
The procedure uses a high precision terrestrial laser scanner to collect a large quantity of 3D measurements of the feed end, discharge end and shell mill liner surfaces. The data is then processed using MillMapper, a unique software package.
The scanner can be operated remotely, eliminating the need for time consuming and costly isolation and vessel entry procedures required for other inspection methods. The scanning process takes less than five minutes, so it can be easily scheduled around other regular mill maintenance.
"MillMapper is unique in its ability to capture and provide visualisation of very large amounts of highly accurate data and report it in meaningful and valuable way to mining operators"
Peter Clarke, CEO
peter.clarke@scanalyse.com.au
www.scanalyse.com.au