Solution
Swati answered on
May 04 2021
The role
Of
Artificial intelligence
And
Information technology
In
Mining technology
Introduction
Mining, a dangerous professional associated with the extraction of natural gas, minerals, petroleum as well as other resources needs working in situations that may be dangerous for human life. Furthermore, there is need to go to harsher climatic conditions like deep under ocean or deep inside earth so as to extract the resources required. Thus, the resource extraction and mining industry is looking to autonomous system, robotics, Information technology and Artificial intelligence applications of all types so as to minimize risk, maximize returns as well as lessen the environmental impact of mining on the ecosystem.
Mining industry is using the old legacy technology till now and thus facing the growth in need of driving operations deeper underground, this is becoming difficult to achieve attainable productivity as well as cost savings. Also, there has been a decrease in the mining operations productivity throughout the world even after several operational improvements and even after making adjustments for declining ore grades. Furthermore, mining industry is facing several other challenges that include volatile commodity prices, changing work nature, maturity of existing mines and innovation ba
iers. To plan operations on future basis, mining leaders are working towards turning up these challenges into opportunities to the suite of advanced technologies in relation to Information technology and Artificial intelligence like natural language processing and machine learning helping to drive deep insights as well as deep learning neural networks that may enhance the speech as well as image recognition significantly. As a solution to challenges in mining industry, there is no single technological solution but traditionally where human intelligence was required for integrating into the workflows, now the Artificial intelligence associated technologies are enhancing the capacity of organization towards task accomplishment, decisions making, and creation of engaging interactions as well as towards generation of stronger business outcomes.
Information technology is working towards transformation of the way of operations in mining industry by
inging day to day data management as well as prevention of inefficiency as well as bottlenecks. There has been need for traditional mining companies to adapt innovation as well as implementation of information technology due to increases demands for worker safety and efficient production along with ensuring advanced manufacturing and the competitive edge in the mining industry. In operations of mining, several steps and numerous operations are required that gets affected by the precedent activities while affecting the subsequent operations. In many of the mining operations, there have been requirement of data collection, reporting as well as sharing on several aspects of operation for safety, production or environmental reasons. Information technology has been applied at each and every phase of mining value chain from the stage of exploration as well as geological modeling to equipment, maintenance and operations and transportation and the logistics. Information herein needs to be right and accurate along with being available fast and easy to access. For an operational mine, an endless data stream is required in form of condition and performance data from the sensors as well as monitoring devices that are on mobile and fixed assets by servers, networks and the services. Processing of this big data as well as analysis is done to spot the trends that help to predict the events along with formulating the reliability strategies at the design stage. Use of the embedded intelligence is done for optimization of operational efficiency, increasing the asset utilization and availability, improving environmental integrity and safety as well as maximizing the ROI (returns on investment). Intelligent mining implies that huge data amount is augmented the reality of plant, physical mine as well as equipment. Standardized information technology is used by mines throughout the mining life cycle which could help in restoring the industrial reputation along with aligning the interest of environmentalists, investors as well as communities wherein mines are operating. From the stage of blasting to noise to water monitoring, remote monitoring systems may be used that results in saving the operational time as well as resources of users by getting the data to mining project personnel without the need to spend much time in field. Automation of the information gathering as well as analysis does help mines in saving the operational and the maintenance cost along with further extending the asset life while complying with the safety requirements and stringent regulatory at the same time.
Need of Information technology in mining industry can be explained by the implementation of IT in three core areas namely more data driven decisions, mine automation and remote operations. Mining organizations are hungry for data and IT helps those locating mineral veins, determination of the operational risks along with helping to streamline the operations. There has been revolution in the mining technology regarding data collection specifically. With advanced...