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Company Insights
Hitachi Construction Machinery – Digital Transformation Strategies
Hitachi Digital Transformation Strategies Report Overview Hitachi Construction Machinery Co Ltd. (Hitachi) is focusing on advanced analytics technologies for its digital transformation. The annual ICT spending of Hitachi was estimated at $201.3 million for 2022. A major share of this spending is earmarked for acquiring software, hardware, and ICT services from vendors. Hitachi is a construction equipment manufacturing company that operates as a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. It manufactures and distributes construction and mining equipment for digging, loading, breaking, grabbing,...
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Analyst Opinions
Digging Deeper into Sustainability – Key Disruptive Forces in Mining (Vol. 1)
Key Disruptive Forces in Mining Report Overview The mining sector is undergoing transformation through drivers such as enhanced safety, cost-cutting, enhanced productivity, and ESG goals. To achieve these objectives, the industry is adopting industry trends such as automation, alternate energy sources, connected mines, and workforce monitoring. Overall, the sector aims to improve sustainability, efficiency, and accountability while reducing risks and costs. The ‘Digging deeper into sustainability: key disruptive forces in mining’ FutureTech series report categorizes key innovation areas in mining...
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Analyst Opinions
Digital Mine – How Technology is Transforming Mining from Prospecting to Reclamation
Digital Mine Report Overview Rapid technological advancements, including automation and digitalization, have had a profound impact on the mining sector. Emerging technologies such as 5G, AI, blockchain, IoT, and robotics are transforming how conventional company value chain operations or processes were carried out. Their implementation in a variety of operations ranging from ore exploration to final ore processing can be conspicuously witnessed. Mining companies need to maximize their machines’ productivity, and this is leading to greater use of AI to...
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Sector Analysis
Technology Investment Priorities in Australian Mining, 2016
Overall trends in the data revealed: The primary technologies expected to see the greatest increases in penetration over the next two years are UAVs/drones, followed by remote control/machine automation, and real-time video training. 80% of mines have already invested in collision avoidance, scheduling and shift optimization, tire monitoring, predictive maintenance, fleet management and environmental monitoring technologies. UAVs/drones have the least penetration of the technologies with only 40% currently invested. This was followed by real time video training with 42% of...
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Sector Analysis
Technology Investment Priorities in Mining in Asia-Pacific 2016
This report provides a detailed analysis of investment intentions across different areas of technology in the Asia-pacific industry. The analysis is based upon GlobalData’s survey of over 110 mine general maintenance and procurement managers including other mine-site and corporate decision-makers. The focus is on what technologies mines currently have and in which technologies they are planning to invest over the next two years. Areas of analysis include: Mining companies’ intentions for investments in the coming two years across a range...