Caterpillar offers VisionLink Productivity to assist quarry managers leverage data to reduce costs and focus on inefficiencies while increasing productivity and profitability. This digital platform allows quarry manager to easily make decisions, and with good insights.

VisionLink Productivity is a cloud-based, scalable application that acts as a productivity management solution on job sites. By collating information collected from every machine in the fleet via ProductLink, VisionLink Productivity provides the key business insights that users need to make the most out of the resources available to them.

With a collection of rich and accurate data recorded and uploaded, quarry owners can have a high-level overview of the production process or drill down to access insights on the exact machine or process on site.

While the machines are within the pre-configured geofence, ProductLink serves as an important platform to collect information on a product level. When this information is uploaded to VisionLink Productivity, quarry owners can go on to access process-related information (e.g. swing time, load time and roading time) within the job site. Understanding each process in detail helps to highlight inefficiencies and bottlenecks to drive that conversation on reducing unnecessary waste daily.

Through VisionLink Productivity, quarry managers can gain greater visibility on important metrics relating to costs and output. By integrating GPS data with the onboard payload monitoring system, quarry managers can learn about cycle time and output volume in real time.

Additionally, with ProductLink constantly tracking idle time and fuel consumption on every machine, VisionLink Productivity can grant users, information relating to total fuel costs and total idle time across the job site. Better visibility on key metrics also enables users to estimate future costs accurately based on these historical data.

VisionLink Productivity further helps quarry managers drive the conversation of adopting changes to increase efficiency amongst operators. The ability to replay events with powerful visuals such as maps and graphs alongside them provides the opportunity for a detailed review of certain processes to be conducted with the operators, to strike off inefficiencies and find solutions.

What’s more, the new E-Ticketing feature brings convenience, eliminating the need for manual or printed tickets generated by onboard Cat Payload systems. Users can now receive an electronic copy of the tickets via email, including detailed information on individual buckets, total payload, truck, and material type.

These tickets can be quickly recalled using ID or number or filtering based on material type or truck name. Key performance indicators tracked by E-Ticketing include ticket count, average truck rate, pass count per ticket, and total ticket payload.