TECHNOLOGY

Automation getting in gear

Donna Schmidt talks to OEMs, suppliers and mines about automation progress in the load and haul space and those new horizons still to come

Epiroc says its automation goal is to build an efficient autonomous production with the highest conceivable level of safety where people and machines work side by side

Epiroc says its automation goal is to build an efficient autonomous production with the highest conceivable level of safety where people and machines work side by side

Futurist Alvin Toffler said: "Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible." That is certainly true for the mining industry, and the industry world is getting smaller thanks to...

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