Today mine control systems turn skilled controllers into data entry clerks, leaving them to manually collect the information that their technology should be capturing for them.

Controllers should be coordinating machines, responding to disruptions and making decisions that keep the shift moving. Instead, they’re chasing radio updates, entering production figures, updating equipment statuses and preparing shift reports.

Controllers should be coordinating machines, responding to disruptions and making decisions that keep the shift moving. Instead, they’re chasing radio updates, entering production figures, updating equipment statuses and preparing shift reports.

We ask controllers to coordinate the operation, then give them systems that consume their time recording it.

Are we giving our mine controllers the best chance of success?

Mine control technology should reduce routine data entry, connect operational information and help controllers recognise where intervention is needed.

It should make it easier to coordinate resources, communicate changing priorities and respond before a small disruption becomes a lost shift.

It should make it easier to coordinate resources, communicate changing priorities and respond before a small disruption becomes a lost shift.

At LiveMine, we’ve spent years building technology for operators underground. Now, we’re shifting our focus to the control room — giving mine controllers the tools to run better, smarter shifts.

The controller should be running the shift. The system should be helping them do it.

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