Increased safety in underground drilling with Atlas Copco’s new Diamec Smart series

Atlas Copco introduces core drilling rigs that eliminates many of the hazardous operations for mines involved in underground core drilling. The risk of handling inner tubes and drill rods, while extracting core samples, is a well-known problem for drillers around the world. Despite safety regulations, accidents with severe injuries still occur.     Atlas Copco’s Diamec Smart core drilling rigs have an advanced control system that enables automatic functions such as drilling and adding and ...