DATA & ANALYTICS to be turning them on and off . You don ' t want to be running your autoclave in a gold mine with a varying sulfide input because the heat goes up and down and it messes with your recovery and you ' re using a lot more power to heat and cool your autoclave .”
The Axora Platform “ Challenge us and we will find it for you ,” asserts Steytler when explaining how he envisages the Axora platform developing . “ We aim to match a technology provider to a particular business buyer , somebody that has a real problem that needs to get solved . They can then collaborate to deploy that technology successfully .” Steytler is positioning Axora beyond the sales and procurement process . “ There ’ s no such thing as on time and on budget with a digital transformation effort , right ? It ’ s a difficult thing to achieve , we ’ re not talking about shrink-wrapped software . That ’ s why partnerships are extremely important and we can help facilitate those to deliver the value required .”
Reacting to Trends Against the backdrop of record years for many mining companies – with copper and gold production and prices on the rise – what trends are the team at Axora seeing across the industry that will necessitate a response from its multi-solution platform ? “ Despite the uncertainties of the global pandemic , mining companies have taken a practical approach ,” notes Carr . “ What we ’ ve seen during the pandemic is that miners have realised they need to embrace the digitization journey . The past year has proved to be a gateway with younger guys coming through the system ready for change .”
Carr highlights that with Covid , engineers couldn ’ t simply fly to West Africa or Chile so the door to digitzation opened . Where
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