The following remarks were heard from people who attended the Mining Automation Symposium, in Sudbury, Ont., Oct 15-16, 1986. We think they provide a good illustration of the diversity of opinion in the industry.
Jon Baird at Scintrex takes a much different approach to marketing innovative technology. His company’s specialty is marketing technology used in mineral exploration. Instead of publicizing what his company’s researchers are working on and when they expect instruments to be available to explorationists, he prefers to sit quiet until the instruments have been tested in the field for about a year and accepted.
“Telling someone that your instrument is not yet working will stick in their mind for a long time,” he said. “And that kind of incentive not to buy is difficult to overcome.” The kind of technological change to which he is referring, however, is incremental and is not the kind of “quantum leaps” Walter Curlook, executive vice-president of Inco Ltd., has been talking about.
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