As mining operations push more production data into remote operations centres, cloud platforms and analytics systems, the industry faces a deceptively simple problem: how do you get useful data out of an operational network without creating another pathway back in? Chris Rule, General Manager Defence, Security and Resilience at GME, says the answer starts with knowing exactly how your mine is connected, who has access and which connections genuinely need to work both ways.
If you still think “energy recovery” belongs in the sustainability chapter of the annual report, Rockwell Automation would like a quiet word – preferably from inside a control tower humming with AI, digital twins and enough conveyor simulations to make your GPU blush.