Our experience in turning innovations into operational success in Mining and Tunneling goes back to 1992! Our references include participation in:

• • The world’s first Tunnel Boring Machine controlled from above ground (1993)
• • The world’s first fully commercial autonomous production drilling project (1999)
• • The world’s first Ex-certified WLAN installations in coal mining (2005)

Today, our expertise is applied to any kind of mobile automation and digitalization solutions in mining and tunneling:

• • Fully electronic machine operation incl. Steer-by-wire and brake-by-wire
• • Assistance systems for driving and work functions
• • Teleoperation of multiple machines from a single remote work station
• • Autonomy systems for driverless machine operation

We are the inventors and technology providers for tunnel supply trains using fully electronic and highly accurate 'track-in-track' operation of up multiple vehicles mechanically coupled to each other (picture). During six years of operation these fully electronically controlled ('all-by-wire') transport trains were safely completing over 250.000 km. Thanks to their functional safe design operating at speed up to 30km/h and on a 2,5 km long 12% downhill slope without a single safety relevant incident! The application of this technology in tunneling today is licensed to VirtuRail GmbH (www.virturail.com).