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UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION AND TUNNELLING

Blast design and  modelling

Better quality blast outcomes and reduced costs with optimised blast designs.

Blast design and modelling.

Creating precise and effective blast designs with tailored to specific site conditions is a significant challenge. By combining Orica Digital Solutions advanced modelling software such as SHOTPlus™ blast design tools and real-time data analytics and BlastIQ™ integrated technology solutions to optimise every blast, Orica offers a comprehensive solution. 

This integrated approach helps customers optimise blast performance, ensure regulatory compliance, and enhance safety. By providing accurate, customised blast designs that improve fragmentation and reduce environmental impact.

SHOTPlus™ Tunnel has been developed to support Orica’s civil and mining customers. SHOTPlus™ Tunnel enables efficient blast design, analysis, and optimisation for civil and mining tunnels, shafts, and rises.

Benefits

Driven by innovation and backed by our global R&D and technical networks, we deliver solutions that solve real operational challenges. 

Data insights

Data insights

Field to cloud data workflows

Field to cloud data workflows

Operational efficiency and performance

Operational efficiency and performance

Social license to operate

Social license to operate

Reduce costs of drill and blast

Reduce costs of drill and blast

Maximise resource recovery

Maximise resource recovery

Additional benefits


Delivering value where it matters.

Our advanced Digital Solutions powered by SHOTPlus™ and BlastIQ™ deliver meaningful, measurable impact across every stage of blast design and execution.

Blast design
SHOTPlus™ Tunnel enables users to design hole layouts, angles, diameters, and bearings in relation to the desired tunnel profile, tunnel floor, or a user defined baseline in a full 3D environment. Holes can be assigned multiple different user defined Hole Types depending on their location or purpose.

Burn cut design
The SHOTPlus™ Tunnel Cut Template tool enables users to design burn cuts simply and effectively. Burn cut designs can be optimised using the dimension and void calculation tools.  SHOTPlus™ Tunnel’s template functionality allows each individual burn cut design to be saved separately for application in a later design, a separate project, or to be shared to other SHOTPlus™ Tunnel users.

Smart drill integration
SHOTPlus™ Tunnel has been designed to integrate with software platforms used by major smart-drill manufacturers, Enabling the import and export of designs between SHOTPlus™ Tunnel and drilling jumbos. This functionality enables users to import and export drilling information and compare the as-drilled hole location, orientation, and length against design.

Initiation design
Initiation designs can be completed for hole-by-hole pyrotechnic delay applications. Alternatively, user defined discrete delays can be applied for advanced initiation designs using Orica’s i-kon™ III or eDev™ II systems. Designs can be visualised in 3D to enable users to optimise the initiation sequence based upon hole location, orientation, and proximity.

Compliance and security
Our cloud-native platform is ISO 27001 certified, upholding the highest standard in information security management, and demonstrating our commitment to providing an open, secure and connected platform for our customers and industry partners.

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