Abstract:

Digitalization is sweeping the mining industry, with advancements in every aspect of the mining processes, from Drilling/Loading, Mucking, Trucking to Collision Avoidance and Emergency Evacuation. This paper addresses how Hudbay’s Lalor mine has improved stability and pushed the capability of their operations while exceeding safety standards. Implementing new technologies and improved methodologies often presents the hope of great opportunity but does not come without its challenges. At Lalor mine, the Mobilaris system was used in combination with a Short Interval Control (SIC) process to enable the mine to identify areas of opportunities and wasted efforts, so they may be explored, and eliminated or repeated where applicable through Kaizen Improvement process. In addition to the gains in production, the challenges associated with change management will also be presented as well as how these challenges were overcome to deliver tangible gains.

Biography of the presenter: Asim has over 20 years of experience within the mining and petroleum industry. He has a proven track record of delivering tangible results for major industry players across the globe and is skilled at forging long term client partnerships. Asim has led many Operational Excellence initiatives as well as technical projects specializing in Process Improvement, Constraint Modelling, Performance Management, Mine Optimization, Feasibility Studies, Petroleum Geophysical, Reservoir and Production Engineering. Asim has a MASc. in Petroleum Engineering and a Ph.D. in Mine Operations Research.

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Haroon Khalid