Robotics Engineering for Mining and Mineral Laboratories

Four kinds of surface and laboratory work: a transfer cell around instruments your assay lab already uses, a sensor payload for conveyor inspection on a route your mine has approved, a workshop fixture for idler or liner change-out, and a wear-part bench rig. Each starts on our bench. Processing chemistry sits on Chemicals & Materials, power on Energy & Utilities, civil works on Construction and environmental systems on Environment & Sustainability.

Not through this page. Belowground equipment, apparatus for explosive atmospheres and anything of a type DGMS has specified for approval follow a manufacturer's route: test-house reports, a BIS licence or IECEx/ATEX assessment, a field trial at a consenting mine and formal approval. Nestack holds none of these. Where a project needs that route, we can help write the requirement for a qualified manufacturer.

It should not change your method, and it cannot vouch for it. The cell moves containers between instruments you already run; sampling protocol, analysis and method validation stay with your laboratory and any sampling agency. We measure identification errors, spills, mass loss and contamination using blanks and reference materials you choose. Assay accuracy, accreditation and chain of custody remain your decisions.

The first trial tests whether the payload records usable, located thermal, acoustic and visual data along your approved route, checked against your technicians' findings. Belt joints and coatings can make healthy idlers look faulty, so false flags are reported separately. Automated flagging is a later step with its own acceptance, covering only the failure modes named in the plan, never every way a conveyor fails.

Your mine's statutory management should confirm that. In India the OSH Code 2020 has replaced the Mines Act 1952, existing coal and metalliferous mine regulations continue until replacements are final, and DGMS remains the mine-safety authority. Surface workshops can fall within the legal definition of a mine. We plan each trial around your risk assessment, permits and codes of practice; this is scoping, not legal advice.

You do, on terms agreed before anything is collected. Before the first recording we agree its content, its readers, its storage location, its retention period and its return or deletion at the end. Grade data and mine plans can be market-sensitive, so they stay off personal devices. We avoid filming workers and do not train models on your data without written permission.

Yes, when the package has a clear boundary and deliverables, such as a pulp-pot gripper, a payload mount or a rig controller. Tell us where the work happens, which shifts apply and the skills involved; we suggest engineers who are genuinely free, and your team interviews them. Your induction and site rules apply to them; they never stand in for competent persons or a site support team.

Cost follows the instruments or components involved, site access and induction time, the conditions to test, reference-material and repeat runs, and documentation. After the trial you receive files, results, limits and a recommendation to adopt, simplify, buy a commercial system or stop. Spares, repairs, calibration and any wider rollout are separate agreements, based only on capacity we can actually provide.