24 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 The ins t alla tion of one Dur a 21 pr oduc t pr olong ed the lif ec ycle and it w as es tima t ed tha t the f acility had saved C130000 Doug Morrison CEO of CEMI Centr e f or E x c ellenc e in Mining Innov a tion and UDMN Ultr aDeep Mining Ne twork belie ves tha t f or the indus tr y t o fulfill it s po t ential it mus t firs t chang e it s appr o ach The mos t v aluable asse t tha t we have is time and the mining indus tr y squanders a gr e a t de al of it he s t a t ed It is essential tha t we adop t a sys t ems appr o ach t o innov a tion if we ar e t o mak e the tr ansition fr om b a t ch pr oc esses t o c ontinuous pr oc esses Sugg es ting tha t an adop tion of the Kaiz en philosophy utiliz ed by aut omo tive c omp anies such as T oyo t a would incr e ase eficienc y and pr oduc tivity Doug c ontinued The curr ent or e tr ansport pla tf orm of LHDs me ans 80 of the diesel we burn g oes t o move the equipment only 20 t o move the or e Our job is t o move or e no t run equipment OEMS MAKING THE TR ANSITION FROM DIESEL POWER T O BA TTER Y ELEC TRIC VEHICLES In a similar vein t o the aut omo tive indus tr y mining equipment is r apidly making the tr ansition fr om dieselpower ed machiner y t o b a t t er y elec tric vehicles BEV s Incr e asing glob al emissions Dur a 21 s t echnolog y de veloped a t NORCA T and supplied t o client s such as V ale a t their Copper Clif mine claims t o outperf orm c omp ar able pr oduc t s by as much as 20 times Citing one p articular c ase David g ave an ex ample of Dur a 21 s c os t saving po t ential The last fv e y ears in the industr y w er e the w orst I hav e ev er w itnesse d in m y 40y ear car e er but the times ar e fnally turning The se c tor is adopting sophisticate d new te chnologies fr om alternate v er ticals to incr ease safety pr oduc tiv ity and sustainability Vic Pakalnis president CEO MIRARCO IM A GE Courtesy of Jacobs