Collahuasi Mine Aims to Be 100% Safe
April 24 2018 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
The fourth largest copper operation in the world has put its
trust in Motorola Solutions to manage and supervise its
communications system
- More than 5,500 mining employees, many
of whom communicate using Motorola Solutions ASTRO P25 radios, will
be able to better focus on their mission and no longer worry about
the control and operation of their communications network.
- Full-service management of its critical
communications system by Motorola Solutions will ensure
availability 24x7, including predictive troubleshooting that helps
improve safety.
Collahuasi Mine in Chile – one of the largest copper extraction
deposits in the world – requires 24x7x365 support, and seamless
communications are critical. That is why it has decided to entrust
Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI) with full control of the operation
of its mission-critical communications system.
Assuring and managing the communications system is a major
challenge, especially for an operation involving 5,500 company
employees and collaborators dispersed across 3,500 Km2 in the
Andean Mountains in the region of Tarapacá, Chile, entailing a
variety of additional complexities for the mining business related
to climate and geographic altitude.
Collahuasi is overcoming radio communications service
availability issues by taking a proactive approach to mitigating
risks to workers and mining operations that can reduce accidents
and partial or total shutdowns.
The company has chosen the Motorola Solutions Premier
communications system control and management service package, which
includes local technical support, network monitoring from the
Motorola Solutions Network Operations Center (NOC) in Illinois
(USA), ongoing radio hardware maintenance, cyber security
monitoring, and prevention and diagnosis.
“Every minute without communication puts our workers in the
field at risk and affects the efficiency of the entire business. By
entrusting the management of our communications network to Motorola
Solutions, we can rest assured that we have a synchronized network
with the latest technology that can operate seamlessly and
reliably, and we are confident that we will see tangible benefits
in the efficiency, profitability and safety of our operations,”
said Gerardo Herrero, Collahuasi IT Manager.
System management will include 24x7 monitoring by expert
professionals that can conduct predictive analyses of potential
issues using statistical studies on traffic, failure occurrence and
patch installation control, among others.
In addition to keeping the communications and safety protection
system updated with the latest versions, this service will allow
for installed radio and hardware repairs to ensure stable
communications as well as safer and enhanced mining operations.
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About Collahuasi
Collahuasi is a mining company engaged in the extraction and
production of copper concentrate and cathodes, as well as
molybdenum concentrate. Until December 2016, Collahuasi was the
second largest copper operation in the world and one of the largest
copper mineral resource deposits on the planet (9,964 million
tons). Its shareholders are Anglo American plc (44%), Glencore
(44%) and Japan Collahuasi Resources B.V. (12%). Visit
http://www.collahuasi.cl/
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