22 www gbr eports c om Glob al Business R eport s PRERELEASE ONT ARIO MINING 2018 Glob al Business R eport s ONT ARIO MINING 2018 PRERELEASE g ap in the mark e t said Michael Gribbons c o f ounder of Maes tr o Cr e a t ors of the Plexus P owerNe t the world s firs t power ed c o axial Gig abit ne twork Maes tr o Digit al Mine have ins t alled pr oduc t s in over 100 mines glob ally Acknowledging tha t it has t ak en time t o educ a t e the mining c ommunity Gribbons has no tic ed an ac c eler a tion in the up t ak e of digit al c onnec tivity solutions in the las t twelve months Five or six ye ars ag o c omp anies did no t put g as sensors in the mines wher e as t oday it is c ommonplac e he s t a t ed c ontinuing This momentum will c ontinue t o g ain tr ac tion with the gr owing need f or mining c omp anies t o r educ e c os t s and bec ome mor e pr oduc tive Centric Mining Sys t ems pr ovides ent erprise solutions sofw ar e t o mining c omp anies worldwide with ofic es in Sudbur y and P erth A us tr alia R ec ognizing tha t aut oma t ed sys t ems and t echnologies need t o work in unison Centric s t echnolog y unifies da t a s tr e ams int o a single vie w and uses analytics and pr edic tive analytics t o int erpr e t da t a Utilizing WipW ar e fr agment a tion da t a int e gr a t ed with power c onsump tion and r ec over y da t a fr om the mill Centic has cr e a t ed an AI sys t em then g ener a t es work able sc enarios of inf orma tion Chris Nov ak CEO of Centric explained We disc over ed tha t we c ould tune the drill and blas t pr oc esses t o op timiz e power usag e in the mill and r ec over y all b ased on fr agment a tion B y t aking those 4 vertic als drill and blas t fr agment a tion milling and grinding and r ec over y a t the pr oc essing plant we c ould g ener a t e entir ely ne w answers When ask ed t o define the digit al mine Nov ak sugg es t ed tha t adv anc es in t echnolog y alone will no t be enough t o signific antly disrup t the indus tr y and a holis tic chang e in cultur e and appr o ach The Digital Mine is not a te chnological accomplishment it is a cultur e It is the integr ation of pe ople pr ocess and te chnology which cr eates an env ir onment wher e datadriv en kno wle dge empo w ers de cision makers and cr eates oppor tunities to impr o v e the business Chris No v ak CEO Centric Mining Systems IM A GE Courtesy of Maestro