Excavating material from the earth and transporting it through a pipeline is not an opinion, but a science, and sizing up your dredge’s level of performance in this process will take data and the application of engineering.

All too often managers and mining engineers spend their resources analyzing their plant system, but neglect to analyze their primary mining device, the cutter suction dredge. This session will navigate the complexities of benchmarking hydraulic dredge production to educate aggregate industry professionals in the steps required in determining a satisfactory level of hydraulic dredge performance.

This session will give the aggregate professional valuable insight into the world of dredge design and explore details of the dredging techniques that will affect their dredge’s production rate. Knowing and understanding these variables will provide dredge owners with the tools they’ll need to make changes that will increase their dredge’s production rate. In some instances, they will be pleased to find that some of these changes can be made at little to no cost to them.