Mining Magazine November 2018 | Page 47

47 through these partnerships innovative technology will begin to have a ‘ trickle ’ effect . With larger industry players implementing and utilising cuttingedge technologies , these same technologies will become more and more accessible industrywide . As the demand for these technologies grow , the technology itself will both evolve and mature , LlamaZOO will avoid the traditional closed system models that are often evident in technology solutions providers . “ It ’ s already very accessible .
We ’ re talking about a few thousand dollars to access the technology , that eventually it ’ s going to become ubiquitous . Working with the industry is open ended ,” says Lavigne .
“ They want to work with everyone . They want to work with all the integrators , with all the suppliers and work up and down the value chain .”
“ Our approach is not to build a closed system and I think that is very much exemplified in our early partnership with Maptek and working with a number
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