A Holistic Digital Mine 4.0 Ecosystem

Over the last couple of decades, digital twins – virtual representations of real-world entities or processes – have allowed sectors from manufacturing and supply chain logistics to healthcare and retail to test and predict the behaviours of the ‘real’ twin in many scenarios. They support well-informed decision making that enhances product performance, process efficiency, and/or human safety to name only a few. The ambitious EU-funded Mine.io project will extend the application of digital twinning to the mining industry. The manufacturing system architecture in a cloud environment will enable enhanced systematisation of mining industry processes, automation and robotisation of mining exploration and production processes, and sustainable mining and post-mining management.