Gemcom Software International Each Mining

Gemcom Software International Each mining or exploration project, as it progresses from exploration and evaluation to development and finally to production, is unique and significantly different from any other. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to defining the information systems to support finance, plant maintenance, material management, quality management, and mine production optimization. Each mining operation is unique and requires a highly customized solution. The wide variation in requirements across the mining industry has created a long-term market potential for service providers including Gemcom Software International.

This service provider concentrates on the three strategic phases of exploration and evaluation, development, and production, selectively adding it resources to each in order to integrate mining and ore treatment processes and achieve higher levels of operational performance over the long-term. Enterprise software including it systems delivers the most value to mining and exploration projects when they serve as the catalyst of greater accuracy in mining and metallurgical processes.

The intent of this paper is to discuss how enterprise software is streamlining the most critically important business processes, leading to mining and exploration companies becoming more efficient and productive as a result. Analysis of Software Needs in the Mining Industry Software applications used throughout the mining industry need to take into account five critical success factors to be successful in enabling mining and exploration companies to attain their goals. These five success factors include the following.

First, software designed for the mining industry must support remote site operations through collaboration techniques and platforms. Second, the software must give mining and exploration companies the ability to translate their internal efficiencies into a long-term cost and performance advantage. Third, any software being used in this industry must support the continual assessment of the mining operations' impact on the environment and community from a social standpoint. Fourth, the software must have support for maintenance schedules to keep complex and expensive mining equipment maintained and in good repair.

Fifth, the design of the software needs to include support for long business cycles and the costs associated with exploration and initially creating a new operation (Hulten, Bjorkstrand, 2009). Conclusion Based on these business requirements, mining software needs to be able to deliver a shared repository of information about the entire mining operation that is real-time in terms of performance. Often mining operations span multiple continents, and require an intensive level of collaboration and coordination at the project level. For many of them,.