14.09.2022

Yanmar presents latest Attachments Range at BAUMA 2022

Yanmar Compact Equipment EMEA will present its latest range of machine attachments at this year’s BAUMA exhibition. Designed to perfectly match and complement Yanmar’s globally acclaimed machines, these new attachments give operators the ability to tackle a multitude of applications with ease and efficiency.  

13.09.2022

Research Project Deep Sea Sampling nominated for the Bauma Innovation Award in the Research Category

Whether copper, cobalt or rare-earth metals, the global demand for these and other raw materials is tremendous and will continue to grow in the coming years. This development is accelerated by major trends such as electrification and the energy revolution. To cover the demand for raw materials, existing capacities must be expanded, and new deposits developed.  

Market-Place-4.0 Bauer Spezialtiefbau GmbH fielddata.io GmbH

13.09.2022

Process Tracking System b.navigate nominated for bauma Innovation Award 2022

The camera system from LivEye records and transmits the partial process of site logistics to the abaut platform (credits: Bauer Group)

Digitalization in specialist foundation engineering at Bauer has steadily advanced over the last few years. Innovative approaches and ideas – such as the b-project data management software – have increasingly digitalized and automated the collection, processing, and analysis of all relevant data generated during the execution of a specialist foundation engineering project. This encompasses various applications: from the transfer of design data from the engineering office to the construction site, to loading and analyzing the digital equipment production data and preparing prefilled reports all the way to archiving sample body lists and technical progress reports – it is no longer necessary for all design, equipment and production data to be painstakingly recorded by hand.

With the new process tracking system b.navigate, the BAUERdigital Portal – an innovative platform for sites – has now been expanded to include another helpful tool. Together with partners fielddata.io GmbH and abaut GmbH, BAUER Spezialtiefbau GmbH has succeeded in creating an add-on that depicts and analyzes the entire construction process in all its complexity. In addition to the existing equipment and production data, other key partial processes are recorded here that could not be depicted previously – such as the installation of concrete and reinforcement elements or the removal of drill spoil. The process tracking system b. navigate, which was developed with the aim of making comprehensive use of all existing data from a construction project, has now been nominated for the Bauma Innovation Award 2022 in the Construction category.

With the help of image recognition, intelligent cameras like the LivEye system, artificial intelligence and analysis of site production data generated in real time, the different main and secondary processes can now be identified fully automatically and used to optimize the construction process. The preparation of content and AI-based image analysis is accomplished using a platform from abaut GmbH, while the rule-based classification of the delivered data is provided by an application from fielddata.io GmbH. “A ‘digital twin’ of the site is created with all the relevant information about the current construction progress,” explains Florian Bauer, Member of the Executive Board of BAUER AG for the function of digitalization. “b.navigate analyzes the current production progress and identifies inefficient processes in this context. Based on this analysis, a direct decision can be made to improve the process.”

Downtimes in the construction process, for example due to waiting for concrete, can thus be recorded without manual documentation and countermeasures can be adopted in real time. In addition to the empirical data from the employees on site, thanks to b.navigate, an analyzed data base is available that forms the basis for substantiated decision-making. This makes it possible to sustainably manage the construction time, costs and use of resources, optimize processes and guarantee a more efficient use of construction equipment and materials.

“Our common vision for the future is to obtain a direct prediction for the optimal course of further production stages using b.navigate, which will enable us to generate automatic forecasts and optimization proposals for all project participants,” continues Florian Bauer. Apart from site managers and site personnel, in the future, suppliers, customers and residents will also benefit in real time from this data recording and analysis, since all work steps can be optimized and productivity can be maximized.

With b.navigate, we have succeed in taking an established method from process optimization for stationary industries and transferring this to a construction site application for the first time.

Source: Bauer Group

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12.09.2022

Endomines expands Operations in Ilomantsi - Discontinuation of Kalvinit’s Ilmenite Projects

• Exploration reservation has been granted over Huhus Zinc-Lead and iron prospects in Ilomantsi, eastern Finland.
• Endomines has decided not to continue Kalvinit’s ilmenite projects located in Kälviä and Halsua areas in western Finland.  
  
  

12.09.2022

Metso Outotec engaged by TNG in Australia for a hydrogen-based Concentrate Reduction Study

TNG Limited, an Australian resource company, has awarded Metso Outotec a study to reduce Mount Peake Ti-V magnetite concentrate using CircoredT technology, which uses hydrogen as its only reductant source.