Effective mine production information has been difficult to gather because mining IT systems used in processes such as engineering design, production scheduling, equipment performance and material handling have not been designed for data sharing and communication. Further, software solutions developed to integrate data in other industries have not been widely adopted in part because they are not able to effectively reflect how mining operations function. This is because a mine site is essentially a giant engineering project that never ends – one that involves ongoing construction, material movement and processing.

Other industries such as manufacturing have been exploiting the value of their operations data for decades to drive process improvement and control costs. With InSite, the mining industry has the ability to match them.

One of the biggest challenges that mining companies face is accessing the operational data needed for performance management. The problem is not the lack of information, but rather the isolation of valuable data.

To address this problem, Gemcom InSite, ties mining applications together through a common framework, enabling all mining professionals to participate in optimizing their company’s mining business. InSite provides analytics, reports, queries and other intelligence needed to understand how well various aspects of mine production are performing. InSite provides the data management system needed for business process improvement. InSite gathers production data from diverse systems and processes and generates analytics for evaluating mine performance and productivity.

By providing a team-based platform for mining, we enable our clients to take proactive, collaborative actions to solve problems before they become issues. A mine manager, for example, may ask his team to look into why production fell unexpectedly on a particular day. What was the cause? Was it due to a variance in what the geological model of the ore body deposit predicted and what was actually mined, was it caused by a reduced capacity to haul material, or was it a combination of factors? Without Gemcom’s technology, which delivers near-real time access to data, these are difficult, if not impossible questions to answer.

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