Data digitalisation in the mining industry – a scoping review protocol

J Duarte,Fernanda Rodrigues,J Santos Baptista

doi:10.24840/2184-0954_003.001_0006

Abstract

The new trends in technology, allied to the industrial revolution has been creating opportunities for developments in almost every industrial field, which includes the mining industry. Mining 4.0 is a recent conception, trying to achieve optimal production control through digital and technological innovations. However, it is of fundamental importance to know what are the existent methodologies for data digitalisation, as well as the data that is actually been used. In order to do so, the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews was used to write a guideline for conducting a scoping review on the subject. All information regarding the review are explained: screened sources, research methodologies, used keywords, exclusion and eligibility criteria, amongst others. The methodologies to handle the collected information is also clarified, as well as the research team’s instruments.

Highlights

The past few years have witnessed the emergence of the fourth industrial revolution, known as Industry 4.0
The link between the real world and the virtual world is provided by the informatisation of data in several fields (Zelko & Spišák, 2013), and technological development is seen as a central factor which leads to the increase of the growth rate of market shares of the companies at the micro level economy, and profits at the macro level (Çaliskan, 2015). This industrialisation stimulated some changes in the mining industry, being currently known as Mining 4.0 (Jurdziak, Blazej, & Bajda, 2019)
Zelko and Spišák (2013) suggest that such system will be crucial for workers, once it will allow taking the necessary actions to increase productivity and decrease energy consumption in underground mines

Summary

INTRODUCTION

The past few years have witnessed the emergence of the fourth industrial revolution, known as Industry 4.0. The link between the real (physical) world and the virtual (digital) world is provided by the informatisation of data in several fields (Zelko & Spišák, 2013), and technological development is seen as a central factor which leads to the increase of the growth rate of market shares of the companies at the micro level economy, and profits at the macro level (Çaliskan, 2015). This industrialisation stimulated some changes in the mining industry, being currently known as Mining 4.0 (Jurdziak, Blazej, & Bajda, 2019). As a secondary result can be emphasised the need to acknowledge what is the type of information currently being digitalised

METHODS

Eligibility criteria

Information sources

Selection of sources of evidence

Synthesis of results