Mining
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End-to-end solutions for the digitally enabled, hyperconnected mine
The mining industry is becoming increasingly complex. Mining houses need to achieve sustainable profitability in markets characterised by volatile commodity prices and oversupply, competition and consolidation, and ever-changing equipment, quality, and safety regulations.
These developments are being driven by advancements in Fourth Industrial Revolution technology, such as cloud computing, the Industrial Internet of Things, and big data and analytics.
To stay relevant and competitive, mines need to become hyper-connected, digitally enabled organisations.
Journey to the digitally connected mine
As your digital transformation and technology integration partner, iOCO brings advanced skillsets, expertise, and digital capabilities that transform your operations and reduce friction in your mining production processes.
We help mines to navigate challenges such as capital expenditure constraints, compressed design cycles, and workforce capability. Our end-to-end mining industry solutions help you:
- Drive operational profitability
- Improve asset reliability and availability
- Enhance performance management and decision support
- Optimise resource consumption, throughput, and output
- Enhance efficiency and productivity
- Improve site and workforce safety
- Improve the efficient and relevancy of reporting
- Achieve real-time visibility of operational and business performance
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Digitisation In Mining
A clearly defined set of digitisation requirements, coupled with the implementation of relevant connected technologies will deliver tangible benefits to your organisation.
Digital Trends In Mining
Modern technology is impacting the ability of miners to use data in an integrated and holistic manner to unlock potential value across the mining value chain.
iOCO’s mining industry solutions
What does it mean to solve for the end-to-end mining value chain?
For iOCO, it means enabling your entire ecosystem using advanced digital infrastructure, technology, applications, data, and architecture integration, while always prioritising safety and security and managing risk.
Here’s what that could include:
Business management & enhancement
Enabling cross-functional and business-to-process integration and optimisation through reporting, analysis, and decision support.
Our business management solutions cover:
• Health, safety, and environmental compliance
• Supply chain management
• Finance management
• Human resources
iOCO’s IT and operations consulting capabilities for the mining industry
Not sure where to start? Our experts can help you design a strategy, roadmap, or business case to bring about change or bring your vision to life.
Target operating model development
In helping you to design and implement your digital operating model, we’ll cover:
- Business and IT due diligence, governance and compliance assessment and information strategy management solutions
- Business process design; enterprise, business, and system architecture design; data and reporting strategy; portfolio strategy and management
- Performance measurement and metrics
- Integrated business, systems and data strategies and architectures, including process, data, skills, governance structures, reporting lines and service level agreements
Technology-driven industry transformation
No matter where you are in your journey to digital mining operations, iOCO brings the IP, processes, people, and results to get you there faster.
As one of the strongest converged IT/OT provider in South Africa able to fully bridge the divide between infrastructure operations (IO) and operational technology (OT), iOCO brings an unmatched ability to solve for the end-to-end mining value chain.
With expert understanding and experience within the industry and detailed knowledge of technology options available for every aspect of the mining operation, we’re able to guide your mine’s digital journey while supporting current and future operations.
We’re a client-focused technology consulting partner that’s committed to finding the best solution for you, delivered through our own IP and extensive OEM partner base.
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