Creating the Intelligent Mine

Creating the Intelligent Mine

Richard Diering, Senior Principal Solution Consultant Aspen Technology, Inc.

How do you define the intelligent mine? What key capabilities constitute the smart mine or mine of the future?
Any mine, regardless of commodity, is typically spread out over a large footprint and is complex in nature. The intelligent mine really centers around the concept of using technology to enable decision support; i.e. centralising information from across many locations and business processes to reveal useful insights. You have leaders making decisions every day—and despite their best efforts, sometimes they don’t have all the relevant information at hand and inadvertently make a choice that costs the business money. The intelligent mine brings all that information together and presents it in
a way that supports key decision-makers, wherever they may be. It’s all about analysing and integrating data to make choices that deliver tangible business benefits.

There are three capabilities that serve as the foundation for the intelligent mine.
To become intelligent, mines need to:

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