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Radar, sonar and SWIPS
by Michelle EauClaire
A state-of-the-art technology reads surface waves to map out what lies beneath the earth's surface, bringing efficiency to a whole new level.
We have radar for the sky, sonar for the water, aerial photography for surface images, yet what do we have that lets us see into the ground? Imagine knowing precisely where to drill for the exact material you're looking for amid hundreds of square miles of untapped resources under your feet.
If mining equipment owners and operators could essentially see into the ground and know exactly how dense the material was 400 or even 900 feet below the surface, they would know what drill bits to have on hand and when to switch them out without worrying about damaging the machine.
With the down economy and new equipment sales falling across the board, many OEMs are focusing on remanufacturing and repairing older equipment to keep customers coming back. MicroMentis' platform allows OEMs to sell a machine equipped with a technology that can ensure safe, accurate and efficient digging, drilling and excavating boosting owner/operator confidence in the machine, and ultimately saving time, money and protecting the land from unnecessary damage.
It began as merely a vision of Daniel Rioux, president of MicroMentis Inc., Laval, Quebec, Canada, chief technical officer (CTO) and inventor of the MicroMentis technology platform, SWIPS (Surface Wave Intelligent Profiling System). In 1983 he was working for a company to identify why vibrations from a train were causing waves related to structural damage of buildings. "Working with the propagation of those waves, I equated it to surface waves in the ground and studied, at the time, the possibility of looking into the ground," Rioux says. "I thought it would be a good technology to look into, but was limited to the geotechnical theory and faced some very...
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