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making corrections to production cycle. by up to 15%, and
Equipment technological downtimes prompting the
are thereby reduced and the respective fault detection
output by means of current equipment and high-accuracy
amount is increased. determination
Dynamic optimization makes it possible to of the position,
assign dump trucks to routes throughout angles and depth
the shift while aligning factors reducing of each well.
fleet productivity, for instance, downtimes The pinnacle
loading. of digital
Finally, the solutions allow for the transformation is
monitoring and control of dump truck the employment Monitoring and control of
dump truck loading
loading, as well as violations by drivers. of robotized
The systems identify unsafe operations, dump trucks and
such as speeding and downtimes, and drilling machines, and implementing joint projects in
evaluate drivers and operators based on remotely controlled excavators and other the field of innovation. We need to
their productivity within a shift. support service vehicles, i.e., excluding promote networking between chambers
human beings from the mining operations of commerce and industry, business
Let’s take an example of Morocco. area. Morocco, as the country with large councils, professional associations and
Kaspersky, a multinational cybersecurity proportion of mining, should be among unions, intensify collaboration between
and anti-virus provider, has ranked the high-end countries when it comes to business entities through joint projects,
Morocco 34th in the list of countries employing new technologies. trade fairs and exhibitions in the hi-tech
with the most detected cyber threats. sector and establish joint ventures.
Between April and June 2019, a total of Mining plants in Africa have made
more than 5.06 million internet users in significant steps on the path to process In the process of digitizing, there is no
Morocco were victims of cyberattacks, automation. We are at a stage where the competition yet, but there is a lack of
mainly malware attacks. Dispatch system cost of digital technologies in mining is knowledge and experience. The main
operation is performed over protected substantially decreasing in comparison to condition to enable our enterprises to
local network, which excludes data conventional technologies. It is therefore transition to Industry 4.0 is the creation
tampering. possible to try to achieve significant effects of a single information space where all
with minimum risks and investment. factory management automation systems
The average time to create a and industrial equipment can exchange
technical project for dispatch system The Harvard Business Review ranks information on-line.
implementation is two to three months. Russia, Morocco, Cameroon and Kenya as
Meanwhile, system installation and countries which currently have a low level On average, equipment monitoring
implementation take 5 to 11 months and of digitalization but which are developing increases production efficiency by 20%.
the average payback period is six months extremely rapidly. Among factors By analyzing equipment and personnel
to one year. Thus, the average amount hampering the development of the digital operation information, the enterprise
of savings for an enterprise with output economy are poor infrastructure and low management is capable of making
volume starting from 10 million tons is quality of institutional environment. In management decisions to increase
equal to 1.3 million dollars. terms of analytics, the best solution is equipment operation productivity and
to create new high-quality institutions
decrease manufacturing losses. Russia
Another example is automated control which can promote the implementation has accumulated extensive experience in
systems for drilling operations based of innovations. implementing objective control systems
on high-accuracy navigation. They can for production equipment. Its experience
help to improve the efficiency of drilling- For my part, I would add that state could allow enterprises in Africa to speed
and-blasting operations at open-cut support is important in our countries. We up digital transformation, and Russian
mining plants and can help to monitor know, for example, that many Australian and African companies to implement pilot
drilling parameters on a real-time basis. engineering companies have been projects in the area of innovation, whose
The system provides for reduction of created with direct support from the development will give impetus to all trade
the portion of manual work in routine state and mining companies. Potential and economic cooperation between our
and labor-intensive operations, thus state support, for example, financing pilot countries.
improving the quality of drilling and projects connected to innovations, could
blasting operations and the efficiency of aid the process of digital transformation
drilling machines, as well as calculating in Africa.
accuracy. As a result, possible effects for an The maturity reached in bilateral relations
enterprise with an output volume starting between Russia and many African
at 10 million tons consists of reducing countries gives us a unique opportunity
secondary drilling volumes by up to 10%, to diversify bilateral trade by increasing
increasing drilling machine productivity the share of high-technology products Pavel Rastopshin

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