Software for Kohat's Cement and Mineral Industries
Cement and mineral work is heavy, continuous and truck-driven. We build the dispatch, dealer and maintenance systems that keep plants around Kohat moving and accountable.
The trade, and what it needs from software
Kohat's surrounding hills are rich in limestone and other minerals, which supports cement manufacturing and a range of quarrying, crushing and mineral-trading businesses. Material leaves the area by truck toward construction sites and cities across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab, so a plant's gate becomes as busy as its kiln.
For these businesses, software value lies in controlling things that move in volume: raw material, finished goods, trucks and money. A missed weighbridge entry or an unnoticed equipment fault is costly because the plant runs continuously. DevKey, working remotely from Islamabad, builds the records and alerts that bring order to that movement.
How the work flows in Kohat
Quarries feed the process
Blasting, loading and crushing bring raw stone to the plant or to mineral buyers. Output has to be matched to what kilns, crushers or customers can take, so planning at the quarry face matters.
Dispatch is truck-based and gate-controlled
Dealers and contractors send vehicles to collect cement or aggregate. Each truck is weighed, documented and released, and queues form whenever demand spikes ahead of construction deadlines.
Plants run around the clock
Kilns, mills and crushers are shut down only when necessary, so maintenance is scheduled around production and unplanned stops are expensive.
Where things go wrong today
Weighbridge and dispatch data in separate hands
Weights, gate passes and invoices are produced by different people. Gaps between them invite disputes with transporters and, in the worst case, leakage.
Dealer balances that drift
Dealers buy on credit, pay in instalments and return bags or vehicles. Keeping each dealer's position correct needs more than a single ledger page.
Breakdowns discovered late
Machine condition is checked by rounds and experience. Early warning signs such as unusual vibration or heat are noticed only after a failure.
Transport costs that are hard to attribute
Hired and owned vehicles, fuel and trips are recorded unevenly, so the cost of delivering a tonne to one destination versus another is unclear.
Software that fixes it
Dealer and distribution management
Dealer orders, credit limits, dispatches and payments are maintained together, so sales staff know a dealer's position before agreeing a new load.
Dealer Management Software DevelopmentTruck and trip tracking
Gate weights, trips and vehicle costs link to each dispatch, so the cost and timing of each delivery can be reviewed afterwards.
Transport Management Software DevelopmentPlanned maintenance for plant and fleet
Inspection schedules, job cards and spares usage are logged against each machine, making repeated faults visible instead of anecdotal.
Maintenance Management Software DevelopmentEarly-warning models from sensor data
Where a plant already records readings from critical equipment, models can flag unusual patterns so maintenance teams look before the machine stops.
Predictive Maintenance SolutionsCommon questions, answered
Can this connect to our existing weighbridge?
In most cases yes, either through the weighbridge's own export or by capturing weights at the gate screen. We check the make and interface during the first remote review.
Is the system only for cement plants?
No. Crushers, quarry operators and mineral traders use the same ideas: weights, trips, dealer accounts and maintenance. We adjust the details to the product.
Does predictive maintenance need new sensors?
Not always. Some plants already collect useful readings. We start with what exists, say honestly whether it is enough, and recommend sensors only if they would clearly help.
Can you work with a plant in a remote area?
Yes. We work remotely from Islamabad and design for patchy connectivity, with gate systems that continue locally and sync when the connection returns.
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