How ARI Improved Drilling Accuracy with Drones, Strayos, & Smart Drills
How ARI Inc. Uses EpiRoc Smart Drills and Strayos to Overcome Inconsistent Bench Geology: Deploying a technology stack of aerial drones, Strayos design software, and smart rock drills eliminates severe fragmentation issues and oversized material in quarries characterized by complex structural jointing and steep 0.5H: 1V toes. By utilizing automated bench surveys to calculate optimal burden distribution, this integrated framework allows operations to systematically reduce total borehole counts while mitigating flyrock and driving down downstream processing costs. Structural Bench Profiling and Precision Fragmentation Lifecycle: Aerial Structural Surveying: Deploy drones to fly and survey complex bench faces, mapping massive rock jointing networks and irregular geologic formations. Burden Optimization Modeling: Import the structural survey data into Strayos to engineer specialized drill patterns that dynamically calculate optimal burdens across changing faces. Automated Precision Drilling: Export the optimized digital pattern coordinates directly into an EpiRoc D65 SmartRock drill to ensure perfect hole placement accuracy at depth. Downstream Cost Reduction: Liquidate historical oversize problems through superior, uniform rock fragmentation, minimizing loading and primary crushing expenses. Geotechnical Deviations & Production Performance Parameters: Highwall Toe Profile Ratio: Tracks structural face steepness and floor protrusion severity, optimized against historical site baselines of 0.5H: 1V toes or greater toe conditions. Borehole Volume Reduction: Measures the decrease in total drilled footage achieved by shifting from legacy patterns to mathematically optimized hole placement. Muckpile Oversize Frequency: Monitors the occurrence of oversized fragments generated during the blast, minimized below historical baselines despite inconsistent site geology. Flyrock Incidence Rate: Tracks energy containment success along jointed rock masses, reduced to zero through precise data-driven burden alignment. Presented by: Kris Jeremiah, President of ARI Inc. Learn more about Strayos Autonomous Mining Software: https://www.strayos.com For more clips from this webinar: Why we Partnered with Strayos - • Why we Partnered with Strayos ROI for Drones, GPS drills, & Strayos - • ROI for Drones, GPS drills, & Strayos Why we choose PPK Drones & Strayos - • Why we choose PPK Drones & Strayos Links to other content: eBook: AI for Drilling and Blasting - https://www.strayos.com/ai-guide-for-... Watch the full webinar here: • A New Workflow to Increase Drilling Accura... Designing and implementing a precise drill plan is critical for achieving an optimal blast outcome. In recent years, GPS Navigation Drills have enabled pinpoint accuracy for drilling operations. However, the major blocker for their widespread adoption has been the added requirement for getting an up-to-date high accuracy bench survey before each shot. Now, PPK drones have unlocked a new workflow that can produce a survey-grade digital model and shot design in minutes, without the need for a GPS base station. Blast designers now have the flexibility to easily create Smart Drill plans for any site they visit. Kris Jeremiah of ARI Inc. and Robert Klau of Klau Geomatics will share: The benefits of using a Post Processed Kinematics(PPK) surveying methodology with Strayos Drone photogrammetry to achieve highly precise positioning (X, Y, Z) of drill holes based on the drill pattern, and The fully automated workflow of transmitting the drill plan to GPS enabled drill machines Learn how this approach: removes the manual process of surveying each hole using a GPS rover or laying out ground control targets, applies PPK data processing to ensure the accuracy of the drilling position, and makes it fast, easy, and simple to collect survey data without a base station We will share Actual Case Studies that: Demonstrate use of PPK drones with GPS enabled drills Compare the time required to capture and process the data Compare the accuracy of the analyzed data See Real Examples of how generated data and drill layout is used to: execute the complex blast with a challenging geology reduce the oversize increase overall safety Presenter: Robert Klau | Director of Klau Geomatics #miningsoftware #mining #dronesurvey #coalmining #aggregatesupply #minesinspector #cementindustry
