Sandvik introduces AutoMine® Core automation platform for mass mining operations

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions is introducing AutoMine® Core, a comprehensive automation platform for mass mining applications to support customers ramping up from manual operation to fully autonomous production.

Built on Sandvik’s proven AutoMine® Fleet and Manual Production Monitoring (MPM) solutions, AutoMine® Core provides users with multiple levels of interoperability for Sandvik and third-party OEM fleets. It provides access to industry-leading solutions for underground connectivity, data collection and analysis and an advanced fleet of automated equipment options, making underground mining safer, more sustainable and productive.

“AutoMine® is used in more than 100 mines globally, including more than 20 mass mining applications,” said Ty Osborne, Acting Director Product Line and Customer Projects Automation at Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions. “AutoMine® Core combines advanced planning and scheduling capability with top-tier underground autonomy, integrating seamlessly into a mine's digital ecosystem. This integration enables our customers to achieve end-to-end optimization, resulting in increased productivity and added value.”

AutoMine® Core also includes solutions for optimizing mass mining, which integrate seamlessly with Sandvik and partner products, providing insights to optimize operational safety and productivity. Integrated solutions like Polymathian’s ORB can further improve productivity by 20 percent, allowing for autonomous dispatching with real-time end-to-end optimization.

The AutoMine® Core platform uses Sandvik’s proven AutoMine® Fleet traffic management, from which customers are able to easily control traffic flow of multi-machine operations and handle complex situations such as advanced deadlock control, passing bays, dynamic dispatch and dynamic speed scaling, resulting in greater flexibility and mining output. AutoMine® Access Control System also improves safety.

Pairing AutoMine® Core with Sandvik’s lifecycle support solutions helps customers maximize uptime and improve efficiency through an extensive service and support offering. Customers can also gain further benefits by selecting from the wide range of personnel competence development and reliable global network of expertise.

“We believe this platform will transform mass mining operations, helping maximize safety, productivity and sustainability,” Osborne said. “We want our customers to automate with confidence.”

For further information, please contact:
Ty Osborne
Acting Director Product Line and Customer Projects Automation
Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions
Email: ty.osborne@sandvik.com

Sandvik Group
Sandvik is a global, high-tech engineering group providing solutions that enhance productivity, profitability and sustainability for the manufacturing, mining and infrastructure industries. We are at the forefront of digitalization and focus on optimizing our customers’ processes. Our world-leading offering includes equipment, tools, services and digital solutions for machining, mining, rock excavation and rock processing. In 2022 the Group had approximately 40,000 employees and revenues of about 112 billion SEK in about 150 countries within continuing operations.

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions
Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions is a business area within the Sandvik Group and a global leading supplier of equipment and tools, parts, service, digital solutions and sustainability-driving technologies for the mining and construction industries. Application areas include rock drilling, rock cutting, loading and hauling, tunneling and quarrying. In 2022, sales were approximately 57 billion SEK with about 16,200 employees.