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Mining Rediscovered: Transforming Your Operations Post Crisis with a Digital Strategy
COVID-19 has uncovered new issues and challenges, so everyone is looking to technology companies to help, as technology is now seen as a revenue generator and cost controller. This week’s Blog examines how such things as analytics and data systems, IoT, artificial intelligence, and robotics can improve the elements of mining operations, particularly in the…
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Polymeric Repair Composites in the Mining Industry
The mining and quarrying industry brings together some of the most destructive forces affecting modern day machinery and equipment. This week’s Blog explores Belzona’s line of rapid-curing elastomeric solutions to the many treats posed by the mining environment, from abrasion, corrosion, wear, impact, and chemical attacks.
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How to Maximize Mining Efficiency and Productivity – Control Room Best Practice
Almost every mine today makes use of some kind of operations control centre that makes it possible to remotely monitor, measure, and control mining operations. And – without an appropriately designed control room – safe high-speed mechanized mining would neither be practical nor commercially viable. This week’s Blog provides a glance into some best practice…
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Slurry Pumping in the Oil Sands Industry
When it comes to pumping slurry, there can be very few applications that are more challenging than the hydro-transport of heavy duty slurries in oil sands production. Earlier this year, GIW Industries Inc. commissioned its largest ever heavy duty centrifugal slurry pump for operation in Canada’s oil sands; this week’s Blog takes a look at…
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Digital Maturity: Making Talent the Driving Factor for the Success of Your Technology
The COVID-19 pandemic has clearly demonstrated that digital transformation is not strictly about technology: it’s also about putting people first and fostering interaction, intimacy, and caring within your team. This week’s Blog discusses how to best prepare your people so that your mining operation is ready to adapt and future-proof itself for a digitally-enhanced future.
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Take Control of Your Data and Focus on the People: Two Essential Components to Building a Successful Analytics-Driven Framework
Today’s ever-improving technology has transformed the potential for collecting and using data in all areas of mining. This week’s Blog examines the steps mining companies can follow to build a new data analytics-driven framework and provides the key to success for how managers communicate and implement these new systems.
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Cavity Scanning: A Careful Look at New Technology vs. Improved Technology
Cavity Scanning, or “C-ALS Survey”, is something that has been conducted for decades under Carlson’s product line. Today, however, this innovation is capturing the attention of many new potential users of the data. This week’s Blog takes a look at the technology behind cavity scanning and discusses which applications might be best for you.
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Live, Real-Time Training with Big-Time Benefits
Need to know how to correctly check the track sag on your mining excavator? What about how to discharge the accumulators in a hydraulic system? Want to complete classes to expand your certification? This week’s Blog reveals how Hitachi mining product experts are now ready to answer all these questions – and more – through…
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What’s Next for Canadian Oil and Gas as COVID-19 Adds to Existing Challenges
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Western Canadian oil and gas industry faced daunting challenges, challenges that the coronavirus has only amplified. This week’s Blog examines the importance of the Canadian Oil and Gas sector and then takes a look into what the future of this vital economic driver may hold.
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Discover the Timely Value of Digital Transformation During Periods of Great Disruption
Organizations of all types are continuing to evaluate the new reality of work and the future of their businesses. This is particularly true for the mining industry, as its employees begin to make their way back to physical mines where health and safety will be, as always, of the utmost importance. This week’s Blog discusses…