idoba’s powerful Mine Performance Navigator rolls out to 12 Australian mine sites
We’re very excited that Mine Performance Navigator (MPN), our AI-powered decision-support and analysis tool, has rolled out to a dozen underground mine sites.
Why the excitement? Because MPN is like our first-born. It’s the first product fully conceived, designed, developed and delivered by idoba.
And now it is live across 12 major mining projects Australia-wide.
12 mines now freed to focus on the future
MPN integrates the KPIs that drive business value with the ability to easily forecast future performance against three month schedule (3MS) target. That means you can move from reactive firefighting to proactive planning. It means your engineers can focus on mine improvements and productivity gains instead of preparing countless spreadsheet reports about yesterday.
Forecasting performance from PLOD to within 5%
MPN works by applying AI, in the form of a cutting-edge Deep learning models, to each mines’ production logs (commonly referred to in industry as PLOD data) and instantly forecasts future performance.
You don’t need more data, or better data collected from sensors on your fleet, our AI takes care of that. Even if you collect your PLOD data on paper, MPN can get to work – dramatically cutting your time to value.
MPN is self-training too, so it adapts to emerging trends to constantly improve forecast accuracy.
Accuracy inevitably depends on each individual situation but we’re already seeing results within five per cent on the quarter for some clients. At one mine site, forecast vs actuals accuracy is within 4% for bogging tonnes and 5% for truck haulage TKMs.
MPN answers your most pressing questions and empowers your people to optimise productivity
Across your mining operation, MPN empowers your people, removes bias and democratises your data so that, whatever their role, site engineers, operation managers and execs can:
Rapidly make data-driven decisions instead of reactively scrambling
Focus on strategic mine planning rather than manual recalculations
Answer boardroom questions with confidence and clarity
It’s a game-changing tool to help mine operators drive performance.
That’s why we’re so excited. Deploying to a dozen underground sites – from Western Australia to Queensland, producing gold, copper, nickel and cobalt – is a big deal. Doing it all – from initial onboarding and training in just 15 minutes, to fully connected, live and adding value at every site – in just four weeks is a huge project.
And so far, we’re hearing lots of positive feedback and plenty of questions, all pushing at the possible and helping us to develop MPN even further.
"Will be really useful in setting up our schedules so we don't have to muck around and get productivity rates from the data ourselves (especially with the shortage of mining engineers). This is good and going to be useful"
- Mine Project Engineer
“Good for comparing schedule to what we can acheive and will be really helpful when we go into three month schedule (3MS) and short term planning discussions"
- Underground Mine Project Engineer
Would you like to learn more about MPN’s capabilities?
Check it out, here.