As customers in the mining industry increasingly seek solutions to support the crucial electrification of their vehicle fleets and the transition to making the operation completely carbon-free from environmental, social and economic factors, ABB and Epiroc claim to meet this with specialized and mutually complementary expertise. This allows them to develop integrated offerings already with today’s existing technology.
“Reducing carbon emissions for mining vehicles is becoming increasingly urgent as we look to the 2030 sustainability goals,” says Max Luedtke, Global Business Line Manager Mining at ABB Process Industries. “We need to encourage collaboration across the industry to accelerate the change needed, and our collaboration with Epiroc is just that. We know from our recent Mining’s Moment report that 71 percent of mining companies agree that successful partnerships are key to accelerating the energy transition. Technology players who demonstrate a strong commitment to open standards and interoperability between assets facilitate these efforts, so we look forward to discovering what more we can achieve with Epiroc and the industry at large.”
MORE ABOUT EPIROC’S PLM INITIATION
As noted in the intro above, Epiroc has launched a very interesting and proactive program on the PLM side. In PLM&ERP News’ in-depth interview with the company’s digitalization manager, John Nydahl, he notes that when it comes to PLM tools, that they work with Siemens Digital Industries Software’s Teamcenter as the data backbone, PTC’s CREO within CAD, while on the business system side they use Infor’s M3. Armed with this software arsenal within PLM, virtual variant management and business IT, this Swedish world player in rock drilling rigs, giant loaders and rock excavators is now taking powerful steps forward in accordance with both a vision and in accordance with a more concrete three-step model. “Epiroc is accelerating the journey towards the digital future,” says Nydahl in the article.
Epiroc’s three-year step-by-step plan started in 2024. But what do John Nydahl’s and his team’s thinking around this? Among other things, it is clear that a heavy basic goal is to build an integrated common platform for the entire organization that not only includes things like virtual configuration management (VC), but also deals with the construction of a Product Master Data platform, to get a single consolidated source of truth.
Click on the linked title below to read this exciting in-depth report that says a lot about what the digital future looks like.
