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Mining Industry needs moving towards e-mainienance to mote operation adoption across mine sites and plants by
get rapid corrective actions taking the service of internet including additional data analytics and visualization for
of things. the next level of optimization. With the integration of the
mining process across the value chain, real time data from
Conceptual framework of e-Maintenance downstream process to upstream
processcan providean opportunity
for high impact improvementin in-
tegration.

IoT further enhances this because
of the integration which can lead
to game-changing activities like real
time databased mine plan optimiza-
tion.

However, the mining industry must
conduct cost-benefit analyses be-
fore implementations on any par-
ticular case to avoid high risk capital
investment. Optimization of mining
processes could be possible by ap-
plication of IoT and data analytics. It
is opined that organizations can look
at off-the-shelf products rather than
customized solutions for cost savings
but the important thing is the re-
Vasuki Upadhyay of WIPRO says mining industry could alization that even a small step towardsthis direction can
be highly benefitted by the recent developments in In- change the future of an organization.
ternet of Things (IOT). IOT solutions can complement re-

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