Development of digitalization and AI in the raw materials sector
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© Rio Tinto
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The digitalization of the mining industry promises huge potential for improved economic efficiency, resource savings and greater safety. If digitalization can be successfully combined with artificial intelligence (AI) methods, completely new possibilities will be open to certain applications. In the following article, the author shows what is understood by Mining 4.0 today and what is already feasible.
1 Introduction
Every minute, Rio Tinto, the globally successful mining company, captures and transfers around 2.4 terabytes of digital data from mobile equipment at its mines and operations [1]. That corresponds roughly to 2 400 times the content of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Can this volume of data be integrated in a system that is remote-controlled by operators? Rio Tinto has shown that this is already possible to an extent. The road to full deployment in all mining operations is, however, still long, as is the automation of all processes. An interesting approach is the linking of process...
