Solution

Challenges

Due to the shrinking working-age population, securing skilled operators is becoming more difficult each year, making chronic labor shortages a permanent issue. At the same time, ensuring safety in hazardous work environments remains a high-priority challenge.
Operations in dangerous areas, long hours of heavy machinery operation, and safety management—we realize the transition to next-generation mine operations that produce higher results with limited personnel while ensuring safety through ARAV Inc.'s solutions.

ARAV Solutions

We promote DX across entire mining sites through teleoperation and automated systems for construction machinery.
Rather than DX for a single machine, we aim to provide a "Field Automation Platform" that optimizes the entire site operation.
This contributes to improving safety across the whole site process, enhancing work efficiency, and resolving labor shortages beyond individual tasks.

Target Processes for Teleoperation and Automation

Promoting Site DX Through Phased Implementation

Example Scenarios

Phase 1

Small Start -
Demonstrate value starting with a single unit

Initially, we start with a single machine that poses the greatest challenge at the site.
We select the most suitable unit, such as a hydraulic excavator, secondary breaker, heavy dump truck, or wheel loader, based on consultation.
Based on the practicality, future potential, safety improvements, and deployment vision obtained, we propose further DX promotion.

Phase 2

Horizontal Expansion - Scaling to multiple units and proposing automation

After verifying practicality with a single machine, we propose the teleoperation or automation of subsequent units for specific work areas or sites.
Teleoperating or automating multiple units involved in excavation, loading, raw material yard transport, and secondary breaking leads to ensuring safety at mining sites, reducing travel time across vast areas, shortening commuting time to work zones, improving the operator's work environment, and enhancing operational efficiency.

Phase 3

Final Phase

Our final vision is to further increase the number of teleoperated and automated machines to create unmanned operations and an environment free from constraints of time and location.
This contributes to resolving labor shortages at mining sites, pursuing safety, and enhancing productivity. We aim for a site-wide DX that cannot be achieved by the automation of single machines alone.