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1/17/07 - Condition Intelligence™ Gains Market Momentum

A year and a half ago, Dingo introduced Condition Intelligence™ to the mining industry. This service provides expert remote analysis of mining equipment condition (principally through Oil Analysis), with a goal of reducing the cost of maintenance. Several major mining companies have now embraced this service, which is now used by 12 mines in 3 countries to manage 2,906 assets and 11,266 components worth an estimated half a billion dollars.

1/17/07 - Action Tracking Drives Accountability

Many Condition Based programs are highly effective at identifying potential equipment problems, using a variety of tools like Oil analysis, vibration analysis, Thermography, and a new breed of on board equipment information systems.

10/16/06 - Trakka hits new milestones

Dingo's Trakka™ is gaining growing acceptance among asset intensive enterprises as a useful tool in condition based maintenance. 5 of the 10 largest mining companies in the world now use Trakka. Large global enterprises in mining, oil & gas, and transportation are using Trakka to ensure that their machines keep running and lasting for the longest time possible.

10/16/06 - First Trakka's Rail customer

GNER provides high-speed intercity train services along Britain's East Coast main line, linking England and Scotland along a route of almost 1,000 miles. GNER trains call at some of the most important tourism and commercial centres in the UK.

10/16/06 - Trakka V1.9 - Speed & Usability

Trakka 1.9 was released on September 30 aimed at delivering more speed and usability enhancements for heavy users. The Dingo development team went back to the drawing boards and tuned Trakka for significant performance improvement.

8/30/06 - Save 10% Off - MaintenanceGuy Products

Tired of your oil analysis program? Try our "best of breed" MaintenanceGuy Oil Analysis program at no risk to you! If you are not happy with the product, you may return unused samples back to us for a full refund. Satisfaction guaranteed!

8/30/06 - Announcing the new Trakka V1.8

Dingo has released Trakka 1.8 with a special focus on developing a read only role for those who process samples in a workshop environment, as well as adding a report to identify bad actors (see related story in this GoodOil). Here is a summary of the new features in this release...

8/30/06 - Condition Intelligence Planners

Today’s mining environment means that the criticality of equipment availability is at an all time high. Overworked maintenance staff are not able to handle their already huge workload, and the tight labor market means that staff changes are commonplace. This could mean that critical oil analysis trends are going undetected until it’s too late.

8/30/06 - Improve your Asset performance – deal with your "Bad Actors"

Often the productivity of an asset is impacted by a single “Bad Actor”, a single “dud” component which consistently cripples the entire asset, or at very least puts it at risk. A final drive in a machine may mean that a $3 Million asset is out of service for days. This destructive leveraging makes identification of these problem components a high priority for most asset managers.

06/06/06 - Dingo Maintenance Systems has arrived in South America!!!

In the never ending quest to provide a global service to our existing & potential clients, we have now opened our office in South America, located in the Second Region of Chile, the principal mining zone of the country and location of some 30% of the worlds known copper reserves. Based in the city of Antofagasta, Dingo will service its clients through the world class philosophy, services & software that has continued to distinguish it from its competitors.

06/06/06 - ¡¡Dingo Maintenance Systems ha llegado a Sudamérica!!

En la cuesta a proveer un servicio global a nuestros clientes actuales y potenciales y romper límites para traer un servicio verdaderamente internacional hemos abierto nuestra oficina en Sudamérica. La oficina esta ubicada en la Segunda Región de Chile, la principal zona de minería en el país, que además contiene hasta 30% de las reservas conocidas del cobre en el mundo. Específicamente, basado en la cuidad de Antofagasta en el Gran Norte de Chile.

06/06/06 - Trakka 1.7 - it's not just about oil analysis anymore...

It's about Condition Management! Previous versions of Trakka have enabled long standing and new customers alike to establish proven processes on multiple sites that maximize the value obtained from Oil Analysis. Trakka 1.7 takes that a step further and provides tools to actively manage condition and ensure a long and healthy life for all your assets.

06/06/06 - "Condition Intelligence Service" launched at six sites

Dingo is responding to a chronic shortage of skilled people worldwide, with a new assistance service for under staffed maintenance organizations. The new "Condition Intelligence" service is like having someone watching your back, by performing daily monitoring of equipment and providing specific actions to be taken to diagnose and rectify problems.

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2/22/07 - Condition Intelligence program - 3 months free trial

2/22/07 - Standard Jobs Save Time, Improve Accuracy

2/22/07 - Oil Analysis – Good for Planet Earth?

Dozer Engine Main Water Pump & Aux Water Pump Failure

What Did Oil Analysis Show?

The engine oil had been trending quite smoothly, with only some slight rises and falls in contaminants and wear metals.
On the 18th November 2005 sodium had spiked from 8ppm to 489ppm, indicating coolant entry into the engine oil, all other predictors were within limits.
A priority 1 work order was raised by Dingo, stand machine down immediately, and a detailed standard job was issued relating to the diagnostics steps needed.
The machine was immediately shut down and was floated to the work shop, where the diagnostics began.

Komatsu 830E Haul Truck Engine

A Brief History of events

The Komatsu truck fleet are operating under a maintenance service contract fully managed by Komatsu Australia Limited, including oil sampling utilizing their own oil lab, the engines are supplied and managed through MTU-Detroit Australia.
Dingo were approached by Customer to also manage the oil samples for the engines only, on the Komatsu truck fleet in August 2005.
During the first five months of this engine being fitted it had a known problem of coolant entering the engine oil, and was subject to numerous diagnostic efforts by MTU-Detroit and Komatsu, including pressuring the coolant system, boroscopes, black light and dye tests etc.
By the time Dingo and Oil Test had started analyzing the results it was deemed that all possible diagnostic efforts had been exhausted.

3/17/08 - CBAM and Mid Range Planning

Dingo has recently engaged with a prominent coal customer in Canada. Elk Valley Coal is the Northern Hemisphere's leading producer of metallurgical hard coking coal for the global steel industry. Responsible for about one sixth of the global seaborne market supply, Elk Valley Coal is the second-largest supplier of its product in the world. The Elkview mine is located in the Elk Valley region of southeastern British Columbia, 15 kilometres from Sparwood. The minesite is comprised of approximately 23,000 hectares of coal lands. The mine has been in operation for more than 30 years Recently the Elkview CBAM project team has engaged in the second phase of the project with the introduction of Condition Based Component Changes. This program is built on three well defined programs developed by Dingo; Component Condition Assessment, Risk Assessment and Financial Impact assessment of component extension.

3/17/08 - Condition Intelligence – Quick Communication of Common Issues

We have recently observed a significant new benefit of Dingo’s condition intelligence service in action.

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