On November 21^st, Thomas de Sousa, a Technical Specialist for WipWare, conducted a WipFrag workshop at Queen’s University for 3^rd year Mining Engineering Students.

During the workshop, the students performed two shaker sieve analyses. Once completed, the students compared them to the photoanalysis results using WipFrag.

The goal of this workshop was to demonstrate the accuracy, effectiveness, and efficiency of WipFrag to the students so that it can benefit them during their studies and their career.

Thank you to Takis Katsabanis for hosting this workshop and giving WipWare the opportunity to show our WipFrag software to the students.

On Wednesday, August 14^th, WipWare’s Value Added Retailer Technical Liaison, Marty Wanner visited Queen’s University in the beautiful city of Kingston, Ontario.  Marty worked with the Head of The Robert M. Buchan Department of Mining, Takis Katsabanis, and the Bachelor of Mining Engineering Technology students. They completed a hands-on lab that included reviewing manual sieving techniques and photo analysis with WipWare’s fragmentation analysis software, WipFrag 3.

The lab included reviewing the WipFrag iOS App and working with WipFrag for Windows. Also, the lab compared the manual sieve analysis results with the photo analysis software results. Features and benefits of both processes were discussed, and the features of online analysis systems were also reviewed.

Marty very much enjoyed working with the BTech students, learning more about manual sieving techniques, and sharing resources.

Our technical specialists are always available to assist our customers in understanding the capabilities of our systems and software. WipWare prides itself in providing ongoing technical support in-house and on-site. A two-day training workshop on WipWare’s WipFrag software was conducted with Hayden Materials, and host Austin Powder, in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

The WipFrag team visited a local quarry during the workshop. The team demonstrated WipFrag and the use of drone technology. As a result, Hayden Material customers attending the workshop saw the systematic approach to size data collection and the UAV capabilities of the WipFrag software.

With WipFrag, customers can take drone orthomosaic images and analyze these images. This ability gives the customer a full picture of their fragmentation and make quantitative decisions based on these results.

The two-day training allowed new and existing users to explore the capabilities of WipFrag for iOS and Windows and to learn new techniques that can help operators create accurate reliable size data after blasts.

When acquiring image samples each image should:

• Contain an easy to read scale (two for tilt correction). If using two scales, both should be horizontal.
• Be high definition – Not necessarily high resolution.
• Never be taken with a wide-angle lens.
• Contain clearly visible particles (if you can outline each individual particle, the software can too).
• Have consistent lighting – avoid hot spot/shadow areas if possible.

For more information, please read the Sampling and Analysis Guide found on our WipFrag product page.

WipWare’s Chief Technical Officer Thomas Palangio and Technical Specialists Kevin Rivard and Marty Wanner had the pleasure of working with some guests from SNF Group, demonstrating aerial imagery with drones and applications with our WipFrag photoanalysis software. Visiting our facility Wednesday May 30^th were Philippe Galy-Jammou of SNF France and Bruno Cote of SNF Canada.

It was a great opportunity to showcase the capabilities of our WipFrag software and how it can be used with drone technology. With the use of drone technology, drone orthomosaic images of a muck pile can be taken and analyzed to give a complete picture of our customer’s blasts.

It was a great opportunity to showcase the capabilities of our software and we look forward to working with Philippe and Bruno in the future.

Throughout this week of November 13-17, O-Pitblast has been lecturing at Blaster University on drone usage. The focus was for Blast and Topography Control. Additional training was on Fragmentation Control by Photo Analysis, Blast Design and Blast Optimization. As part of the lectures, Francisco Leite, Technical Services Director at O-Pitblast used WipWare’s WipFrag software. This software was excellent for demonstrating Blast Optimization and Fragmentation Analysis.

Students had a great opportunity to see how WipWare’s fragmentation analysis software allows instant PSD analysis of digital images. One lucky student will be receiving a full version of WipFrag for Windows free for participating in the workshops.

Thank you again to Francisco Leite for providing this opportunity to showcase our WipFrag software to the Blaster University students.