Author: Matrix team

National Forklift Safety Day

In support of National Forklift Safety Day, Matrix has posted a new blog that focuses on how data can help improve forklift and pedestrian safety at material handling operations. ______________________________________________________ Real-Time Data and A.I.: How Collision Avoidance Taps New Tech to Boost Facility Safety Data—it’s a word that resonates in today’s world. With information flowing from every corner, we find ourselves surrounded by countless data points: think about how many times an operator starts and stops a fork truck and…

OH&S Webinar Focused on Real Time Data and A.I. Boosting Facility Safety Features Brian Jones

On May 24, Brian Jones, Matrix’s Vice President of Sales & Marketing, hosted a free Occupational Safety & Health Webinar on how data and A.I. are elevating facility safety. The webinar, titled Real Time Data and A.I. – How Collision Avoidance Taps New Tech to Boost Facility Safety, had excellent attendance and received high marks from participants for content and relevancy. To watch the webinar, click here. Webinar Topic Summary: When facility and safety management personnel have access to detailed…

Stand Down to Save Lives

MSHA has launched the first “Stand Down to Save Lives” day which is today, May 17th. In a recent interview, MSHA’s Assistant Secretary Chris Williamson spoke about this initiative. “It’s about setting aside one day and one week a year where we spend a little bit extra time and a little bit extra focus on making sure that we’re adequately protecting miners safety and health. And we can identify potential hazards and work to eliminate them,” Williamson said. The agency…

OmniPro® Adds Data-Rich Cloud Application

NEWBURGH, IN. April 25, 2023 – Matrix Design Group, a leading provider of technology for industrial and mining safety and productivity, has introduced a web-based cloud application for its award-winning OmniPro® collision avoidance system. This new application provides warehouses, distribution centers and manufacturing plants with detailed data that can help make their facilities safer. OmniPro’s innovative application of Visual Artificial Intelligence (Visual A.I.) and machine learning enables line-of-travel, crosswalk and blind-spot pedestrian and vehicle alerting for mobile equipment. Its new cloud application…

Matrix and GRT-VALLEY RUBBER Collaborating on Truck Lining Sensor Solution

This article originally appeared in International Mining  on March 22, 2023 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Indiana-based Matrix Design Group is entering the truck bed analytics and monitoring market through a partnership with rubber body manufacturer GRT-VALLEY RUBBER, IM discovered at the SME MINEXCHANGE 2023 Annual Conference & Expo in Denver, USA, last month. Matrix, renowned in mining for its proximity detection and vision-based safety solutions, recently entered into a partnership with Arkansas-based GRT-VALLEY RUBBER. The two companies have deployed a prototype ‘smart’ truck body solution to…

OmniPro Visual A.I. Animation Video

OmniPro® is Matrix’s camera safety system that uses Visual Artificial Intelligence (V.A.I.) to detect people and objects, such as stop signs, within a mobile equipment unit’s projected travel path and alerts the operator of their presence. Matrix has created an animated video to demonstrate how OmniPro’s adjustable Caution and Alert zones work on forklifts. OmniPro can be installed on any make or model of mobile equipment and is elevating safety at a variety of material handling, industrial and mining facilities. OmniPro…

WD300 Wet Duster

The WD300 wet duster is carried in a scoop bucket and powered by the scoop hydraulic PTO. 12 GPM and 1,500 psi is needed for the duster to operate properly. Wet rock dust, or slurry, is a combination of water and rock dust. Water is stored in the hopper while rock dust is added and mixed into a slurry by means of (2) hydraulically operated mixers. Wet rock dusting allows operators to dust on-shift with workers inby, reducing the hazards…

Matrix Makes Top 10 Engineering Services Company List

Metals & Mining Review has named Matrix Design Group LLC as a top 10 engineering services company for 2022. As the mining industry evolves and becomes more focused on maximizing productivity and profits, the need for innovative safety products and technology solutions has never been more important. The December issue, which features Matrix’s VP of Engineering Ben Lemond on the cover, highlight’s Matrix product portfolio for mining and industrial operations, which includes leading-edge collision avoidance systems, data networking systems, communications,…

DataSaint Mining ERP Company to be Acquired by Matrix Design Group

NEWBURGH, IN. September 10, 2021 – Matrix Design Group, LLC (“Matrix”), a leading technology solutions provider, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire substantial assets of DataSaint (Pty) Ltd. (“DataSaint”), a leading mining ERP software company. Matrix will invest in DataSaint, adding analytics technology from its previous asset purchase of Vetinari Mining Services in 2019 and hardware solutions integration from its portfolio of leading-edge industrial solutions. DataSaint delivers mission-critical, mining-oriented, enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to mining…

Matrix’s Enhanced IntelliZone® Technology for Mobile Haulage Wins NIOSH 2021 Mine Safety & Health Technology Innovation Award

Scoops operate in highly constrained line-of-sight underground environments, which can contribute to safety-related incidents. While Matrix has long produced the top proximity detection technology used on mobile equipment, particularly CMs, in U.S. mines, it has now introduced an enhanced version for scoops and other types of mobile haulage. This new technology recently received NIOSH’s 2021 Mine Safety & Health Technology Innovation Award. Matrix worked with mine personnel at three different underground coal mines in the Illinois Basin to adapt the…