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The initial focus of a new Orica and Cat collaboration is on the potential integration between Orica ’ s Rhino™ , BlastIQ™ , and FRAGTrack™ technologies with Cat ® MineStar™ Terrain
change in safety , productivity , recovery and sustainability outcomes for their operations .
“ To realise the full potential across the entire value chain , technology domain leaders , customers and academia need to increase collaboration in an open ecosystem to develop integrated , end-to-end operational workflows which link orebody intelligence , drilling and blasting , material characterisation and processing ,” they said .
Recognising this , Orica and Caterpillar have signed a memorandum of understanding ( MoU ) to explore opportunities to integrate key elements of
their respective domains . The initial focus will be on the potential integration between Orica ’ s Rhino™ , BlastIQ™ , and FRAGTrack™ technologies with Cat ® MineStar™ Terrain .
The goal of this integrated workflow is to provide customers with highfidelity rock property information enabling significant improvements to onbench safety , drilling and blasting program accuracy and productivity , along with higher quality blast outcomes that generate enhanced mill performance .
In the future , the two companies intend to extend their collaboration to optimisation of the entire value chain , from mine to mill . This approach aligns with both organisations ’ ambitions to create sustainable solutions and services that will build the momentum for more intelligent and solutiondriven mining ecosystems .
Sean McGinnis , Vice President of Technology & Global Sales Support , Caterpillar , said : “ Our customers are looking for every opportunity to optimise the productivity and safety of their mining and processing operations . By combining and leveraging the insights unlocked by Orica and Caterpillar ’ s technologies , we will be able to provide customers greater access and visibility to the data and information they need to make , better real-time business decisions .”
Rajkumar Mathiravedu , Senior Vice President , Orica Digital Solutions , said : “ The mining industry requires greater collaboration amongst its leading technology players to build connected workflows across different domains to address the current issue of value-leakage arising from traditional and disconnected silos . Collaborative end-to-end ecosystems are critical to harnessing the full potential of advances in sensors , data processing and intelligence to enable the development of safer , more sustainable , and productive methods of resource recovery .
“ Orica Digital Solutions is excited to be working with Caterpillar across a range of domains as we aim to better connect the digital and physical worlds to give our customers more timely and actionable insights across their value chains .” IM
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