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Richmond firm partners in developing mining solution
Published 11:13 PDT, Thu June 11, 2020
Last Updated: 2:13 PDT, Wed May 12, 2021
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Wenco International Mining Systems of Richmond have signed a memorandum of understanding with British-based Oxbotica to develop a world-first open autonomy solution for mining.
Initial trials are underway, and the companies are actively recruiting mining partners with appropriate testing grounds.
The industry-leading system will provide customers flexibility and efficiency in autonomous mining deployment, allowing them to operate any open standard-based vehicle and integrate it into their existing fleet. It will help meet growing demand with the number of autonomous haulage trucks around the world expected to grow by more than 300 per cent by 2023.
A wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi Construction Machinery, Wenco has 30 years’ experience in developing technology solutions that assist mining companies in maximizing resource value from their operations. This latest advancement builds on the vision of open autonomy—first publicly announced by Wenco and its parent, Hitachi Construction Machinery, at the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum Convention in Montreal in May 2019.
“We are very excited to be collaborating with Oxbotica,” said Wenco president and CEO Andrew Pyne. “We are confident that combining Oxbotica’s proven capability in autonomy with our three decades worth of experience in interoperable fleet management systems for large mining customers enables us to create the industry’s first full-function open autonomy platform.
“Regardless of the strategies of other industrial autonomy vendors, Wenco and Oxbotica believe firmly in the principle of open systems and consider it the primary way to bring about our joint goals of widespread adoption of autonomous technology and safer, more productive industrial operations. Our joint platform will allow customers to choose any open standards-based vehicle and integrate it into their existing operations.”
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