Feature image credit: www.techrepublic.com It is not a secret that the mining industry has historically been extremely conservative, and it has always been difficult to bring miners to experiment with technology and automation.
But the 21st century dictates its terms and to stay afloat, traditional businesses need radical changes.
AUTHOR: Anton Potapov, CTO, VIST Robotics (subsidary of ZYFRA Group)
A few years ago, world mining leaders launched a large-scale process of updating their own fleet of equipment. Acumen Research and Consulting (ARC) estimates that the global mining equipment market will reach $ 285.5 billion worldwide by 2026.
At the same time, the main drivers of the growth will be automated technologies and so-called “smart” solutions for the production.
Already now the most advanced “miners” perform a number of technological processes, such as drilling and transportation of raw materials, with the use of robotics, while in 2019 the majority of industry players may start using new technologies on an industrial scale.
Analysts of Technavio predict the growth of the robotics market in the mining industry by an average of 27.01% by 2022.
On the very eve of the New Year, transnational mining and metallurgical company Rio Tinto, which was one of the first to build its own “mine of the future”, officially announced the launch of the world’s first AutoHaul autonomous long-distance railway network for the transportation of iron ore to the ports of the company in the Pilbara Region in Western Australia.
The company’s ten-year work on the creation of the largest railway robot should lead to an increase in the ore production in Pilbara from 340 million to 360 million tons.At the same time, in the other hemisphere, Swedish technology companies, including Ericsson, Scania, Eprioc and SKF, are joining together in the Swedish Mining Automation Group (SMAG) and are beginning to promote their […]
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