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.