Mining Industry today is adopting advanced technology into the world's oldest engineering profession. And, this is happening very fast. Robotics and automated machinery are now performing tasks that were once carried out by humans. Machines today perform the principal mining operations like drilling, blasting, excavation and bulk material handling with greater precision and consistency. Remote control, automation, semi-autonomy are now being popular in the mining and construction machinery. Physically challenged person also can now become an operator of a giant excavator or an off-highway truck with capacity to carry 270 te of ore or more. Mining Machinery operating at the rough terrain in mine now can be monitored, controlled for optimal performance by a competent engineer sitting in his air condition room tens of kilometers away from the site. Today's mining engineers will need to know a wide range of machinery to apply artificial intelligence and machine learning applications to analyze vast amounts of data from mining operations by these machines to optimize the processes, to predict equipment failures, and to inform decision-making for the safety, productivity and sustainable business dynamics.
Today's mining engineers must know automation at the machine level, semi-autonomous operations at the system level or a totally autonomous solution for the mining operations. The actionable decisions of a mine manager today depends on robust data analytics covering the geo-mining conditions, operational and deployment parameters and characteristics and signature of the machinery being use in a mining system.
This course is designed to enable you to take up machinery related learning activity and engineering project. You will be able to describe the machine elements and functional units that built a specific machinery. You should be able to identify the instrumentation and monitoring systems of the mining machinery for explaining their roles in achieving operational and maintenance goals. While undertaking this course you will continuously evaluate yourself for your progress in learning how to study technical literature and how to make graphical summary of your learning outcome for undertaking demonstrative engineering activities.
