
O-Pitblast
Rethinking the Drill & Blast industry.
About O-Pitblast
O-Pitblast is a Portuguese mining technology company founded in 2016 that develops digital solutions for the optimisation of rock blasting operations across open-pit mines, quarries, and civil works. The company was acquired by Forcit Group, a Finnish explosives manufacturer, expanding its reach and integration with commercial explosives products. O-Pitblast's multidisciplinary team combines expertise in mining engineering, statistics, mathematics, and software development.
O-Pitblast serves mining operations across Europe, South America, and Africa, and has established partnerships with explosives suppliers including Forcit and Enaex. The company positions its suite of tools as cloud-connected, mobile-friendly solutions that enable integrated field-to-office D&B workflow management. Its product line covers the full blast lifecycle from design through field data capture, environmental impact assessment, and analytics.
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Products by O-Pitblast (3)
Sorted alphabeticallyO-PitAnalytics
by O-Pitblast
O-PitAnalytics is the reporting and analytics engine within the O-Pitblast ecosystem. It creates reports designed to enhance processes by visualising planned versus actual data, recording all field activities and planning deviations, generating compliance reports, and identifying hazards and quality control problems. The platform tracks relations between theoretical and real values including blasted volume, powder factor, specific drilling, and charging metrics.
O-PitApp
by O-Pitblast
O-PitApp is a mobile companion application for the O-Pitblast platform, designed for real-time field data collection and quality assurance during blast operations. Engineers and operators can verify blast progress, validate KPIs, and control charges in each blast hole from the field. The app enables entry of actual hole data such as length, inclination, position, azimuth, diameter, stemming height, and water presence. O-PitApp uploads data to O-PitCloud, enabling comparison of planned versus actual operations and supporting real-time decision-making.
O-PitSurface
by O-Pitblast
O-PitSurface is the flagship desktop software in the O-Pitblast portfolio. It allows mining engineers to import topographic data, plan all phases of the blasting operation (topography, drilling, loading, timing), and control or predict the results of explosive application. The software includes modules for vibration prediction, fragmentation analysis, and flyrock assessment, and supports both non-electric and electronic initiation system design. Users can create, share, and optimise detailed 3D blasting plans with cloud-based storage via O-PitCloud. The software generates maps and loading plans for field use.
Company Details
- HQ
- Porto, Portugal
- Company Size
- 11-50
- Website
- o-pitblast.com
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