Manual data entry

The design of the input forms for manual data entry have very much benefited from the close cooperation with the industry (and a special thanks for our development partners).
The dedicated goal was to make data entry that simple that the personnel responsible for the work can also be made responsible for data entry. By all experiences this is the best approach to achieve "best" results, i.e. a minimum of faulty data entries. Although in particular in small quarries working personnel might have same anxiety towards computers, this usually can be overcome by a simple to use system along with proper support and assistance.

Two examples for illustration:

Definition of blasts

Blast definition are a perfect axample for the wide range of how detailed blast description could be. From the definition of te mere existance (for forther reference) the range goes to extremley detailed description of the blast geometry (including blast face and position and orientation of boreholes) and the explosive charge.
In the example shown to the right (doble click for increased picture) not only the basic design parameters such as number of boreholes, number of rows, burden, soacing, etc., but the boreholes are also described as individuals.
In addition this form provides the capability to roughly declare were the blast takes place (which might be important for blast geometry, product quality and hauling performance, to mention some aspects). This can be easily done with a few cursor-keys. Without much effort for additional surveying this is already a very good basis for documentation and further processing.

explosives

The same flexibility applies for explosive documentation. Some people are satisfied to report the total explosive used for a blast, some others might want to describe in detail each explosive column of each blast (and usually people have good reasons to do either this or that!). Due to the fancy data structure one might easily switch from one case to another without any problems for further processing.
The examle to the right shows the form for the very frequent case that explosives are reported on a borehole bay borehole basis, but not specifying the exact columns. The form proviedes a easy to handle matrix-type imput area and also some auxilliary function to assist rapid data entry.