Patent ID: 7689394
Filing Date: 2010-03-30
Classification: E02F

Abstract:
1. A method for managing electric mining shovel information comprising a plurality of activities, the activities comprising: receiving a plurality of values for a plurality of electric mining shovel system variables associated with one or more electric mining shovel system components, the plurality of electric mining shovel system variables comprising at least one operational variable related to digging earthen material, the at least one operational variable comprising non-binary values; determining a mathematical correlation between at least two variables of the plurality of electric mining shovel system variables, the at least two variables comprising at least one non-load-related variable and at least one non-positional variable; analyzing the determined correlation between the at least two variables using a pattern recognition algorithm to determine a performance of the one or more electric mining shovel system components; and rendering a visually-renderable graphical analysis report that indicates the determined performance of the one or more electric mining shovel system components.