Digital Innovation: Gateway to the Future of Mining
While the natural resource industry seems to have taken a little while to join the fourth industrial revolution, progress is being made steadily as automation is adopted and implemented. The benefits of automation include payload optimization achieved by computers in a way that could not be replicated by people. Global mining equipment producer CR Mining is among many that are dedicated to developing more technology for the natural resource industry. The company’s head of product strategy, Kevin Greenwood, explained that the digitization of mining had various benefits. Among them those benefits are the following: Improvement in efficiency and productivity based…