EMESRT Level 9
We are the first and only OEM and PDS agnostic vehicle intervention controls (VIC) provider to achieve the EMESRT Level 9 intervention controls for any machine, make, model, or type. Since 2015 our group has over 3000 successful machine installations under our belt, and counting.
Level 9 matters to Nerospec SK
For over 21 years the engineers at the Nerospec Group have focussed on reducing mine machine fatalities to zero. Our commitment to making mines safer includes our participation as a founding member of the EMERST. Then 8 years ago the neroHUB was designed and developed, delivering cutting edge EMESRT Level 9 Vehicle Intervention Controls to any mine, machine, or machine type.
Each year, between 30-40% of industry deaths are attributable to failures of vehicle interaction controls and of these about half involve pedestrians, mostly in underground operations.
3000
neroHUB Installations
30+
Different OEM Installation
100
Different Machines
8
Years in Level 9 EMESRT
Technology's role in Level 9
EMESRT has undertaken a mission to produce a standard that must be satisfied by proximity detection systems as a result of the worldwide mining community’s collective efforts (PDS). ISO 21815 is a standard for interoperability between third-party PDS providers and OEM-supplied equipment that provides a framework for the deployment of PDS controls in mixed equipment fleets.
In this way, EMESRT has established various levels of incident control:
Design
Improve the design of mines and equipment
- Site requirements: machinery specifications, mine design, standards [YEARS]
- Segregation controls: berms, access control, traffic segregation (MONTHS)
Operational
Increase operational discipline. This can include supports for existing controls
- Operating procedures: maintenance, traffic rules, quality control [WEEKS]
- Authority to operate: training, qualification, licenses, induction [DAYS]
- Physical state to operate: state of fatigue, drugs and alcohol, medications [TURN]
- Operational compliance: safety test, pre-start, machinery status [HOURS]
React
Introduce Technology to Alert, Advise (Level 8) and Intervene (Level 9)
- Notice to the operator: cameras, real-time maps, mirrors, lights [MINUTES]
- Alert controls: proximity alert, fatigue, overspeed [SECONDS]
- Intervention controls: intervention to reduce speed, braking [MILLISECONDS]
Considering these incident control levels of the EMESRT, it is considered the most appropriate requirement in reducing accidents that the Proximity Detection System (PDS) or Collision Avoidance Systems (CAS) perform with an Intervention Control Level 9.
In 2006 Nerospec engineers delivered the world’s first successful operator intervention. The vehicle was slowed through de-throttling and then stopped by mechanically modifying the machine to slowly pull the brakes.
Our Implementation of Level 9
Over the last years Nerospec has implemented this technology with success at various South-African mines resulting in a steep decline in powered mobile equipment accidents.
Improving control systems to oversee the operation of mobile equipment and the transfer of personnel and materials is a significant obstacle to minimizing deaths in the mining sector. Approximately 30 to 40% of annual industrial deaths are attributed to failures in vehicle interaction controls, with the majority of these involving pedestrians in underground mines.
Due to the high number of deaths and mishaps in the worldwide mining sector, the Earth Moving Equipment Safety Round Table (EMESRT) was established as a global effort comprising the mining industry’s largest businesses. EMESRT has collaborated with Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to increase the operability and maintainability of equipment beyond OEM specifications.
CHALLENGE:
Collisions between Trackless Mobile Machines (TMMs) – as well as between pedestrians and TMMs.
SOLUTION:
Implementing the neroHUB Level 9 Crawl and Stop interface on Trackless Mobile Machines (TMMs). Supported by a Proximity Detection Interface (PDI) and Speed Brake Interlock (SBI) implementation that constantly monitors and maintains speed of a TMM.
RESULTS:
Fully supporting CRAWL and STOP or LEVEL 9 as it has come to be known in Earth Moving Equipment Safety Round Table (EMESRT) markets. Preventing any safety incidents such as loss of control or running away on a decline.
South Deep Adding Nerospec NeroHUB EMERST Level 9 Collision Avoidance Technology
Gold Fields’ South Deep gold mine is in South Africa. As part of an ongoing project with our sister Nerospec Group company, Nerospec OSCON, which is based in Bromhof, Randburg, the mine is continually working to improve its EMESRT Level 9 collision avoidance capability. This refers to technologies that intervene in terms of automated machine control in order to prevent or mitigate an unsafe interaction.Our Technology that delivers Level 9
Our Tech and Our Software
Over the last years Nerospec has implemented this technology with success at various South-African mines resulting in a steep decline in powered mobile equipment accidents.
Thus, Nerospec SK provides the worldwide mining community with a variety of High Precision Collision Avoidance Systems solutions that may intervene in the mobility of the equipment, braking or slowing it down to avoid a collision or a run-over (LEVEL 9 Intervention Control – EMESRT).
Product Offering
SIMAC
SIMAC (Short Interval Monitoring and Control Software System) is a state-of-the-art software package that allows operators and managers alike to access in-depth overviews and insights via dashboards that are expertly tailored to a specific mine.
Managers and overseers can control what viewing privileges other staff members have regarding the dashboard, and they can customise their own dashboard to maximise the impact of the data and statistics they are surveying.
The customisation of this pivotal information will empower mines as no other tech has before; with the SIMAC AI, the software will deliver proactive insights, allowing mines to mitigate machine maintenance and preventing scenarios that can stagger or halt production.
