How 3D Stockpile Management Software Turns Your Stockpile into a ‘TARDIS’

Like the BBC's Doctor Who's TARDIS, which famously was bigger on the inside than the outside, Eka has pulled off the seemingly impossible and designed smart software that allows stockyard capacity and annual throughput to dramatically increase, without increasing the size of your stockyard.

TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimension in Space) - the Police Box, or Type 40 time and space machine, from Gallifrey, Doctor Who's home planet, that the Doctor travels around in

Your problem: your stockyard has cost millions to develop, but its capacity is now too small for your needs. You also can’t track commodity quality, can’t track stockpile origination, and you need a smarter anti-collision system, not based on hardware that is hard (and costly) to maintain. You can (of course), buy more land (if available), apply for the necessary permits (if granted), deploy more infrastructure (with the associated costs and lead time) – and make your operation bigger (with extra headcount?).

-OR-

You can deploy Eka's smart 3D Stockpile Management System, which through software alone:

• Models your stockpile in 3D, allowing slice and dice views and enabling you to graphically see traceability of quality and origin.
• Models differing stacking and reclaiming patterns that allow you to stock more commodity on the stockpile, and stack and reclaim more efficiently.
• Models your stacker/re-claimers in 3D and allows the booms/conveyor belts of two different machines to work over and under each other, therefore allowing efficient close quarter operation – a condition that traditional anti-collision systems based on GPS or RADAR will not allow.
• Allows you to match stockpile outurn quality to sales contract quality – thereby maximizing profit or minimizing penalties.
• Connects directly to your infrastructure via the PLC layer and controls your stacker/re-claimers to realize the benefits of Eka's advanced model.

The business of stockpile management has changed. So maybe a little literary license on my part (and apologies to Doctor Who fans), but for a small investment compared to extending or building a new stockyard, our customers have seen 20%+ annual throughput improvements from the same size facility. See why Australia’s premier coal and iron exporters choose to use Eka's InSight CM - 3D Stockpile Manager.