Digitalisation slashes Sibanye-Stillwater’s loco incidents

15th October 2021

By: Martin Creamer

Creamer Media Editor

     

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Digitalisation has slashed by nearly 70% underground locomotive incidents at Sibanye-Stillwater’s South African gold and platinum group metal (PGM) mines.

The digital locomotive systems improve safety and productivity by managing interactions and logistics.

Already, R330-million has been invested and on the cards is the probable investment of an additional R800-million to improve data volume, velocity and veracity still further.

“When you look at the big picture, we have 1 152 locomotives moving 36-million tons of ore and interfacing with 58 500 of the company’s employees in a confined area,” Sibanye-Stillwater CEO Neal Froneman told this year’s DigiMine event organised by the University of the Witwatersrand and covered by Engineering News & Mining Weekly.

“We have identified 3 600 behaviours and actions for each locomotive per day. These are monitored and used to help guide training and improve behaviours,” said Froneman, who described the size of the Johannesburg- and New York-listed company’s underground South African locomotive fleet as probably being ten times that of Transnet.

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

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