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Polymathian Pushing Innovation Boundaries At Carrapateena

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Polymathian Pushing Innovation Boundaries At Carrapateena

Polymathian has updated details on its collaborative industry project to automate OZ Minerals’ Carrapateena Mine, a sub-level cave operation in South Australia. Polymathian has been applying ground-breaking technology through a METS Ignited Industry Growth Centre Collaborative Project. The $2 million industry-led collaborative project leveraging government funding was awarded to Polymathian to deploy ORB, its mine optimisation software, at OZ Minerals’ underground Carrapateena mine. Representing industry's continued investment in innovation, ORB is the world's first and most advanced Short Interval Control system for near real-time optimisation of mine planning and scheduling activities. ORB is currently being used for block cave mining in Australia and around the world, where it has demonstrated an improvement to mining productivity. Industry investment has enabled Polymathian...

Oil sampling joins automation age

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Oil sampling joins automation age

Anyone involved in the taking of oil samples would be aware that sampling methods and technologies have barely changed in the past 30-years. Improvements have occurred in minor areas however a methodology remains which relies on a person interacting with live equipment to take a representative oil sample in a bottle which is then sent to a lab for analysis. As the rest of the industry moves towards autonomous vehicles, Industry 4.0, and AI, oil sampling of mining equipment still requires placing people in potentially hazardous environments which are often noisy, hot, and have the ever-present danger of rotating equipment, pinch points, vehicle movement, or stored energy release. Over the years, countless injuries and tragically, even deaths have occurred caused...