Software for Quetta's Mineral and Coal Mining Operators
Coal and minerals from Balochistan are weighed, loaded and hauled across tough terrain. We build site records, dispatch tracking and contractor accounts for operators.
The trade, and what it needs from software
Balochistan holds coal seams and mineral deposits, and Quetta is a base for many of the leaseholders, contractors and traders who work them. Material comes out of remote workings, is stacked, weighed and loaded onto trucks, then travels to cement plants, brick kilns, industrial buyers and processors in other provinces. The work is physical and the sites are far from any office.
That distance is the core software problem. Output is noted on paper at the mine, weighbridge slips pile up, and the owner in town learns what happened days later. DevKey Technologies builds remotely from Islamabad, creating tools that function on rough sites with unreliable signal and that give owners a dependable view of output, trucks and money.
How the work flows in Quetta
Extraction by crews and contractors
Work at the face is often organised through contractors who bring their own labour. Output is counted per crew and per shift, and payment is tied to what is produced.
Weighing, stacking and loading
Extracted material is stacked at the site and weighed as it is loaded. The weighbridge slip is the document that the whole sale, and often the transport payment, depends on.
Trucking to industrial buyers
Hired trucks carry loads over long routes. Owners must know which vehicle left with what quantity, and match arrival weights to what was sent.
Where things go wrong today
Paper records far from the owner
Shift output, expenses and slips are written at the site and reach the office late, so decisions are made on stale or incomplete numbers.
Weight differences between mine and buyer
A gap between the loading weight and the weight accepted at the destination leads to deductions and disputes that are hard to settle without records.
Contractor accounts in a muddle
Advances, equipment charges and output-based payments pile up across many contractors and are difficult to reconcile at the end of a month.
Safety and compliance paperwork
Incident notes, equipment checks and inspections are rarely kept in an organised way, which exposes operators when questions arise.
Software that fixes it
Site tools that work offline
Offline-first software lets a supervisor log shift output, slips and incidents on a phone or tablet at the working face and synchronise later from wherever signal returns.
Offline-First Software DevelopmentTruck booking and load tracking
A truck booking app records each vehicle, driver and load, and lets the owner see dispatches against receipts without ringing round the contractors.
Truck Booking App DevelopmentAn owner's dashboard
Business intelligence dashboards pull output, dispatch and expense data together so the owner sees how each site is performing without waiting for a handwritten summary.
Business Intelligence Dashboard DevelopmentRecords for inspections and audits
Document management software stores permits, lease papers, equipment checks and incident reports in one searchable place, ready when an official or buyer asks for them.
Document Management Software DevelopmentCommon questions, answered
Does the software need internet at the mine?
No. Entries are saved on the device and sent when a connection is available, so work at the site is not interrupted by dead spots.
Can it help settle weight disputes?
It cannot decide who is right, but it keeps loading weights, truck details and timestamps in one place, which gives both sides a firm record to discuss rather than recollections.
Is this suitable for a small leaseholder?
Yes. We can start with output, dispatch and contractor accounts for one site and grow from there, rather than selling a heavy system the operation does not need.
Do you visit sites?
We work remotely from Islamabad and visit when a project truly needs it. Early requirements are gathered through video calls and photographs of your existing slips and registers.