Archives: IoT

Datamine has announced the acquisition of Sodep, a leader in the Brazilian fleet management market, as part of its plans to offer “one seamless package with a single source of customer support across the full value chain”, CEO Dylan Webb says. Founded in 2011, Sodep is the a provider of affordable fleet management systems for[…]

Hexagon AB has signed a major agreement with diversified mining company Mineral Resources (MinRes) to provide an autonomous haulage solution for a fleet of road trains to run at the Onslow iron ore project in Western Australia, which, the companies say, will transform safety, productivity and sustainability in the region. The world-first, fully autonomous road[…]

Wabtec’s Digital Mine division says it has received a series of orders for 3,500 of its new Generation 3 Collision Avoidance System (Gen 3 CAS) from three major global mining companies. The capabilities of the new system will drive performance and safety improvements at the customers’ mining operations, the company says. When Wabtec launched this[…]

In April 2023, IM Editorial Director Paul Moore toured Metso’s state of the art Performance Center in Santiago, Chile with Pablo Zuniga – Metso’s Remote Services Manager (pictured at the facility above). The facility is just a small part of Metso’s office space in the city but an increasingly important one as mining houses look[…]

Industrial IoT solutions providers Davra and IoTDC have announced what they say is a landmark partnership that merges their expertise to launch a state-of-the-art suite of software applications for the comprehensive safety monitoring of mining operations. The announcement was made during the recent visit of the Irish Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister), Micheál Martin, to Wits[…]

RCT says it has deployed a state-of-the-art teleremote dozer at a multi-metal mine in Finland looking to further automate the mine site and improve overall employee wellbeing. The ControlMaster® technology on the Cat D11T dozer was chosen for numerous reasons, including its durability, interoperability and high level of customer support, RCT said. “The site experiences[…]

Eclipse Mining Technologies, provider of data technology solutions and developer of the SourceOne® Enterprise Knowledge Performance System (EKPS), has announced the launch of its latest release, marking, it says, a significant expansion of its product capabilities with its flagship platform. This EKPS milestone comes as mining and other similar industries continue to face increasingly complex[…]

Hexagon has agreed to acquire Canada-based tele-remote operations leader HARD-LINE, bringing into its offering all the elements it needs to compete in the autonomous haulage system (AHS) space. At HxGN LIVE Global 2023 in Las Vegas last month, Hexagon’s Mining division said it was enhancing its relationship with the company, building on a previous distribution[…]

Australian asset management and digital transformation company COSOL Ltd has signed a major contract to deliver Asset Management Services to Ok Tedi Mining Ltd, owner of one of the world’s biggest copper-and gold mines, located in Papua New Guinea. The contract has a value of A$17 million and will run for three years. This contract extends[…]

Earlier this year, Howden’s Lead Software Engineer, Benoit Dussault, told IM that the company was starting to delve into machine learning as part of the evolution of Ventsim CONTROL, and he recently provided a few more details about the impact this could have on its flagship ventilation optimisation system. The company’s aim for this project[…]