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Journey to the Digital Mine – Creating a Digital Ecosystem to Support the Mine of the Future Passed

Wednesday June 2, 2021 09:00 - 11:35 Digitalization | hosted by: Sandvik

Speaker: Eduardo Lima
Moderator: Andreas Simoncic

Theme: Digitalization

In today’s complex, hyper-connected and globalized world, technology has outpaced business processes, putting pressure on mining companies to constantly improve day-to-day performance. In this presentation, we will demonstrate, in practice, who are already seeing evidence that digital transformation in mining is working and demonstrating enormous value to the operations when driven by a single digital strategy across the enterprise. Wherever you are on your mine digital transformation journey, you will learn how with ABB's structured approach, broad digital portfolio, deep domain expertise and ecosystem collaboration, you'll cut through the hype to the core of how to achieve value through digitalization.

Lecturers

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Eduardo Lima Speaker

Global Product Manager
ABB

Eduardo has over 15 years of experience in working with mining customers with specific focus in power and process automation. His experience spans from power and process control, plant asset management and operational management system. In the last 5 years, Eduardo has been heavily involved in digital transformation of mine operations through fleet manager, short interval control, automated scheduling and manufacturing operations management from mine extraction to minerals processing.

Eduardo holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree, an post-graduation degree in business strategic management and is based in Switzerland.

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Andreas Simoncic Moderator

Business Line Manager
Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions

Mr. Andreas Simoncic has 18 years of experience of working in the IT and Industrial Automation industries, with mission critical computer center systems and High-End Industrial automation/robotics solutions for companies like Data General, EMC, Siemens and Dell. He has been an entrepreneur in the mining industry for a decade and has in this role co-funded several junior exploration companies, incl. a mine re-opening project (large Iron Ore mine in central Sweden) working with feasibility studies, NI-43-101 reporting, environmental assessments and mining concession application process. Today Mr. Simoncic holds the position as Business Line Manager for Automation and Digitalization at Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions, supporting mining customers in Europe with Automation and Digitalization solutions to help them get more, safer and cost efficient tons out of their production units.