Symboticware said that under the deal, its solutions will be used to digitalise Major Drilling's rigs and improve its data collection capabilities.

Major Drilling will gain access to Symboticware's store-and-forward, machine-to-machine communication, and digital data muling technologies. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

"The partnership with MDI is strategic and timely as we set out to transform the four million off-highway assets in the resource industries with our Operating System of Intelligence," said Ash Agarwal, chief executive of Symboticware. 

The drill fleet performance improvements include real-time data provision that will also be used in training, said Symboticware.

"We are excited to partner with Symboticware and embark on the next step in digitizing our rigs and our data collection capabilities," said Marc Landry, Major Drilling VP of Technology & Logistics. "We are confident their expertise will aid us in advancing our fleet technologically, as well as help us usher in a new generation of drillers to our crews. With access to this new data, we will continue to lead in providing new members of our team the ability to learn faster by measuring their performance improvements."