The future of mining – end-to-end integration

作者：Neville Judd

Hexagon is helping mining companies adopt a unified digital strategy to improve their business decision making. Leading this drive to digital transformation for customers is the division’s new chief technology officer (CTO), Rob Daw.End-to-end life-of-mine integrationis at the heart of this transformation, explains Daw, who was cofounder of MiPlan,2017年被六边形收购亚搏苹果app。他在开放坑和地下运营方面具有超过15年的经验。

在最近的HXGN Spotlight采访中，DAW在其背景，现行和未来的采矿业以及他对CTO职位的期望上进行了详细说明。

您最近被任命为首席技术官。您的期望是什么？作为CTO，您的业务优先级是什么？

We are将世界一流的技术运送到采矿业。We want to continue to focus on our customers and how we can deliver more value through our products, as well as assisting with the services of those products. It's about looking at ourselves and making sure that we practice what we preach; delivering to our people internally; and improving in our day-to-day jobs.

您经常旅行，参观地雷，与矿工交谈。您从他们那里听到的最常见挑战是什么？

提高生产率, improving safety and reducing costs今天与过去五年或10年一样重要。我认为我开始确定的最大挑战，因为采用了许多这些新技术，并且industry looks at autonomous和其他领域，是矿山的社会变革。社交许可，如果您想称呼它；我们如何适应劳动力；我们如何将劳动力与我们一起在技术之旅中以及我们的劳动力一起 - 对于许多行业而言，这绝对是一个挑战，我认为我们需要重点关注。

给我们一个六边形的采矿部门的投资组合的快照。亚搏苹果app

所以，我们的一切雷计划产品组合, where we touch on exploration from drillhole analysis, and storage into design, scheduling, planning, and then to the production world for drill and blast. We then have the technology to push that into the operations world.我们通过车队管理，资产健康具有能力， 接着our safety portfolio where we have collision avoidance, personal alert, including vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-person protection, as well as车辆干预。

We also have a really exciting area we're starting to work on as well with our autonomous portfolio, where we are looking atassistive technologies。我们正在与客户合作，在旅途中和自治的路线图中，因此我们可以在这些矿山中促进这种变更管理过程。

所有这些技术都会产生大量数据。因此，我们还拥有企业平台，这使我们能够pull all this information together and drive value through understanding the interactions between these different technologiesand giving unparalleled insights into each of those portfolios, but also a holistic view as well.

What are the long-term challenges you're keeping an eye on with regards to research and development?

采矿业的热门话题是autonomous systems，但对我来说，在技术方面，还有一个全体自治世界，以及我们也可以自动化的一些办公型技术。我很想看看这两个世界（办公室和领域）如何可以合并该自治角色。

Rob Daw
六边矿业首席技术官亚搏苹果app