Saving customer’s money with high profile technology in heavy duty machinery

Waste management machinery has come a long way from being just machines: they are now reliable multi-tasking tools that not only handle waste but also serve the owner.

Tana Oy's landfill compaction and waste shredding machinery may be robust and the operational environment and circumstances cannot always be considered as "neat". Despite this circumstantial roughness, Tana Oy has always been a forerunner in adapting latest technological solutions in order to provide added value to its customers. Tana's heavy duty machinery equipped with fine-tuned micro intelligence is a match hard to rival.

From waste to value

Landfill operation has become more and more business-driven during the past decade. In order to offer its customers superior advantages Tana has chosen to develop intelligent machines. Main thought in seeking for technological innovations has simply been to create added value to the customer investment. Instead of a mere investment in machinery, the customer invests in time-saving remote management, a system which provides him with information and reports about his own processes, and online trouble-shooting. All this calls for better operational planning, less downtime and maximum usage of the machine capacity both financially and operationally.

Real-time work assessment

Tana landfill compaction machinery can be completed with a GPS navigation-based ProLoc system. The system is based on a pre-fed digital filling plan where slope angles, possible avoided areas and obstacles are noted.  One can also mark down locations for special waste such as asbestosis or other special attention required waste segments. Information on incoming waste can be received wirelessly directly from the weight bridge so that e.g. truck registration plate information and delivered waste types can be registered real-time.

Tana ProLoc enables to optimize the location and volume of compacted waste on the landfill itself saving landfill space and extending the landfill lifetime. It also stores all compaction data so that information on waste locations can be retrieved whenever needed.

The operator has a real-time view of the work progress with an accuracy of 20 cm on a color monitor located in the cabin. Numerical reading and a graphical 3D interface inform the distance towards the planned filling surface. Additionally, when a surface is reached, the system paints the surface green, so that the driver knows when the right level has been reached.

Continuous monitoring

Following the progress of a filling plan is easy even on an office computer display. With an internet connection the work machine display can be directly shown to the office without any special setups. New work plans can be downloaded and installed even through a remote connection, so it is not necessary to stop operating the compactor when upgrading or downloading. The remote connection is also an efficient tool for trouble-shooting and problem solving.

Waste management machinery has come a long way from being just machines: they are now reliable multi-tasking tools that not only handle waste but also serve the owner and operator as reliable and important sources of information in their entire landfill management process.