Automation
Automate your operations to improve productivity, ensure regulatory compliance and address industry skill shortages.
From driverless trucks and trains to simple, repeatable reporting and analysis, automation has huge potential for the mining industry. Automated mine trucking can lower fuel consumption by 10-20%, reduce tyre wear and eliminate meal breaks.¹ Turning over repetitive tasks to robots can free valuable skilled staff to actually exercise their skills. And, of course, automation can improve compliance and remove people from danger.
The challenge can be knowing where to begin. Where are the greatest opportunities for productivity gains? How can you be sure that automation here, won’t create new problems over there?
We work with mining businesses to model their operations and identify the best opportunities for automation.
From feasibility assessments to planning and execution optimisation, our consultants and data scientists, armed with our digital toolset, work with you to co-create digital twins of your operational value chains.
With tools like Dynamic Driver Modelling and Gemini, you can test your decisions in a real-time model before committing them to real life.
Our solutions can help you:
Assess feasibility of automation plans
Our digital twin simulation allows you to test automation plans before committing them to live operations.
Determine efficiency gains
Rapidly assess the potential gains from alternative automation projects. Re-assess the viability of previously abandoned operations.
Avoid unintended consequences
Model your entire value chain to ensure automation here doesn’t create bottlenecks or issues over there.
Reduce waste and emissions
Our scenario analysis lets you accurately estimate potential cost savings and emission reductions from proposed automation strategies.
Unchain your experts
Automation frees your scarce talent to focus on value-add. Our modelling and consulting helps you target the biggest return.
Optimise your automation
Digital twins and rapid scenario analysis enable you to continually monitor, manage and adjust your automation projects to maximise returns.
Automate your mining operations for maximum gain with feasibility assessments, operational planning and execution optimisation. Improve productivity, throughput, safety and emissions with effective automation.
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