Project description
An Industry 4.0 digital twin for the mining industry: optimisation, automation, and robotisation
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.
Objective
In the context of industrialization, informatization and sustainable development of the mining sector, Mine.io solution will build a novel mining digital ecosystem and a systemic structure for the implementation of Industry 4.0 in mining industrial environments. Mine.io solution will embrace the whole mining value chain from resources’ exploration, extraction, and processing to waste management and post mining activity. Our fundamental concept is the provision of a manufacturing system architecture, under cloud environment, to be applied in the digital twin mining “shop floor”. Mine.io envisions an innovative cloud services system and a novel mining ecosystem of sharing, interconnection, and open cooperation. Mine.io will establish a unified data infrastructure and collaborative platform ecosystem to promote the openness and sharing of data and improve the cooperation environment between mining enterprises. Mine.io aims the enhanced systematization of the basic processes of the mining industry, that involve asset and process equipment optimization, through embedded predictive analytics, and optimization procedures based on completely data-driven processes and the integrated cyber-virtual and cyber-physical systems, automation and robotization of mining exploration and production processes, sustainable mining, and post mining management. To meet the increasing social and environmental concerns, Mine.io will enable a resource optimization and digital transformation framework, embedding specific circular economy and “low-impact mining” strategies. Energy innovations, including the transition to autonomous electric vehicles, will lead to socially conscious profit, while creating a safer and cleaner environment for front-line workers, including higher air quality for those working underground. Mine.io ecosystem will be validated in different demonstration sites, involving 4 operational mine facilities and 2 historic mine sites, in 5 EU countries.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringmining and mineral processing
- social sciencessociologyindustrial relationsautomation
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencedata exchange
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssimulation software
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09599 Freiberg
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1066 Nicosia
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10129 Torino
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106 82 ATHINA
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20009 DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN (GIPUZKOA)
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90014 Oulu
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96900 SAARENKYLA
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971 87 Lulea
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0663 Oslo
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1101 Lefkosia
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71004 Heraklion
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4200 465 Porto
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1121 Budapest
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157 80 ATHINA
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03-450 WARSZAWA
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40 189 Katowice
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30-059 Krakow
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09484 OBERWIESENTHAL
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111 41 ATHENS
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79588 Efringen-Kirchen
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1092 Budapest
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37008 Salamanca
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59301 Lubin
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80686 Munchen
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D03R8P3 Dublin
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