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Gorain points out that few mining companies work in this way : “ We take a very holistic view of this digital innovation with a portfolio focused on three areas to build that foundation . Critically , the first step is to integrate all of our operating data into one platform so it can enable the digital enterprise with all of the financial , commercial and HR systems .
“ Secondly , with all the data on a single platform , we have begun a deeper analytics drive where we ’ re looking not just at predictive and prescriptive controls , but also at developing
business operation models for each and every part of a unit operation so that we can go beyond data analysis with a system based approach and official automation .
“ This leads us into the third area . Digital alone is not going to help us so we must support our subject matter expertise . Many companies across the globe go digital but without strengthening their core know-how , which for us is mining , milling and smelting . The idea is to leverage digital , which is just the enabler to help us in optimising all of our individual operations . Now this
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