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.
Someone in the audience suggested the mining industry take a goal-oriented approach similar to the American drive in the 1960s “to put a man on the moon before the decade is out.” He suggested the industry’s motto should be: “Not a man underground by the year 2000.”
Someone else suggested Canada’s mining industry is at war with competing countries and that all Canadians should stand up and fight. “You can count on the thumb of one hand the number of mining companies which are doing anything about automation,” he said. (He was probably from Inco).
Managers at Noranda Inc. are grappling with the problem of integrating mine maintenance and mine financial reporting into one computer system. The intention is to set up the system so that 1) accountants can obtain whatever information they need, 2) maintenance foremen, who require a higher level of detail, can draw off what they want and 3) engineers can get the performance data they need without receiving all the other information. “Essentially this a problem for librarians,” one manager suggested.
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