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Digitalization – Future of the mining industry Proven technologies help mining companies turn fully digital and gain a competitive edge siemens.com/mining Digitalization can help the minerals sector tackle major challenges like productivity improvement. To drive the progress of highly efficient and sustainable mines, Siemens offers proven digitaliza- tion solutions: an industry-specific process control system for comprehensive automation (MinAS), an engineering tool for effective plant management (Comos), and a platform for aggre- gating, relating, and presenting operational and business data for the big picture (XHQ). It’s time for a higher degree of digitaliza- tion ‒ to gain a true competitive edge.