FIVE USES OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY IN MINING
REMOTE MONITORING OF CONVEYOR BELT FLEET Remote monitoring reduces the need for manual intervention in risk areas . It helps catch misalignment or speed issues online , and avoid falling material , energy waste , excessive belt wear , rupture or fire .
MATERIAL FLOW MONITORING AND STOCKYARD OPTIMISATION Material flow monitoring can increase stockyard productivity between 5-10 %, providing contracted materials much faster and more reliably .
REMOTE HOIST MONITORING This helps optimise production capacity , enabling operations managers to be notified about performance issues , and quickly get the hoist back on maximum capacity .
VENTILATION ON DEMAND This improves safety and saves up to 50 % energy per year , creating healthy working conditions in the mine 24 / 7 , and enabling energy saving targets to be reached thanks to AI-assisted optimisation models .
AUTOMATED PRODUCTION SCHEDULING AND EXECUTION This can increase productivity by 5-10 % and enables mine planners to react to disturbances in seconds using software to automatically reschedule interconnected tasks , minimise delays and idle times . miningdigital . com 109