Haul truck future TIMES have been hard for the major truck manufacturers with a number of major mining projects on hold, particularly pressurising the ultra-class market where the key contracts are relatively few and far between, compared to lower-capacity classes. The following details developments at Caterpillar and Liebherr, but also reveals for the first time BELAZ’s plans to roll out key m...

Due to the new concept of country transport logistics development “Turning East”, it is becoming more important increase processing capacity container terminals in Far East. This research work study possibilities increasing throughput terminal areas by making technical and technological management decisions. The opportunity introducing automation elements into operation through creation a cycli...

In automating an excavation task it is required to deene a nominal trajectory for the motion of the excavator tool, so that its motion can be programmed and controlled. During the motion, the excavating tool (the bucket for instance, in the case of a loader), experiences the excavating forces that must be overcome by the active forces for moving the bucket, in order for the excavation to take p...

Cross-docking is a relatively new logistic strategy which seeks to make economies in transportation, decrease lead time and reduce inventory. The main principle is to unload, sort, consolidate and transfer delivered packages from inbound trucks to outbound trucks, with a minimum of storage or treatment in between. Two key issues associated to this field are the truck scheduling and the shop-flo...

A controller for a miniature wheel loader is developed to scoop rock piles autonomously. During a scooping task operation, the load of the bucket varies momentarily according to the phase of scooping. Before the insertion of the bucket into the rock pile, the load is just the bucket weight, but after the insertion the reaction force from the rock piles is applied to the bucket. The values of th...

At harvesting elevators and grain receiving enterprises, the operation of from motor vehicles is main one. Many other types also accept due to fact that it allows improve economic performance enterprise, in general, combination functions inherent different a feature enterprises elevator industry our country. For almost all or terminals, issue car queues before entrance acute. The introduction v...