The amount of data that is produced at mine sites has proliferated in recent years, but the question of how to manage that information still looms large.
The problem is that as software applications and connected equipment have multiplied – as essential as they are to efficiency and productivity – they tend to work in isolation from each other.
In order to integrate data from different applications so they can use it more effectively, many of the larger mining companies have resorted to developing their own internal solutions, says Rudy Moctezuma, chief business development officer of software developer Eclipse Mining.