Computer aided Drilling

Aiming Tool for executing
pre-designed drilling plans

Sandvik Construction Tunneling introduces the add-on instrumentation TCAD+ to their DT and DD series underground drill rigs used in tunneling and mining. The TCAD+ instrumentation, a successor of Sandvik TCAD Tunneling Computer-Aided Drilling, improves drilling accuracy, thereby decreasing the amount of over and under excavation.

Sandvik TCAD+ is an aiming tool designed for accurately executing pre-designed drilling plans. It features face drilling, long hole drilling and bolting hole plans on the screen. Furthermore, a built-in data collection provides information on hole position and angle as...

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