MANAGEMENT

Clayton goes loco with tracking system

Burton-on-Trent-based Clayton Equipment has developed a solution to provide an intelligent locomotive tracking and management system to improve locomotives used within a mining environment.

 Clayton has also developed battery-powered locomotives Credit: Clayton

Clayton has also developed battery-powered locomotives Credit: Clayton

Called Mine Sim, the loco simulator uses RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags with distance to calculate a position within the mine simulation. At different points the gradient of the track changes,...

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