How Digital Tech Is Making Space and Time Collide for Mine Operators

Operating a mine is a logistical challenge of epic proportions. Today, operators are using digital solutions to dramatically simplify the process.
Every mine site is an intricate puzzle made of many moving parts.

To get the ore “from rock to dock” as efficiently as possible, operators must balance dozens of complex variables. Information overload is a persistent threat, so mining companies need easy-to-use tools to manage their data and analytics.
To wrangle all that critical information, production managers have traditionally had to chase down many different pieces of manual reporting from various shift supervisors. This hunter-gatherer approach to collecting data consumes a lot of time and effort, and so they end up solving the puzzle for last week or last month, not for right now.
With digital tools, space and time are no longer an issue. Today, all kinds of data are available in the digital mine in real-time, from maintenance to finance to production data. But the richness and diversity of that data can be seriously complex, so operators need interactive analytics to see what is going on at the plant level. This way, they can troubleshoot and solve problems almost as quickly as they appear.