Forge - December 2008

Partnership with MinLog strengthens Maptek MineSuite™ capability

Maptek has entered into a strategic partnership with fleet management and management information systems specialist, MinLog.

This will provide a greater global marketing, delivery and support capability as well as enhanced product functionality in the short and long term. Maptek has a longstanding, successful relationship with MinLog in its capacity as distributor of Maptek’s MineSuite™ product in Africa.

The success of MinLog in this region is reflected in superior technical and service abilities, and the outcomes they deliver through MineSuite. In addition, MinLog’s dedicated Production Performance Management Information System (PPMIS) software, is well respected and highly valued by their customers.

Customers will reap the benefits of combining the skills, technology and experience of MinLog with Maptek’s global reach and substantial ongoing commitment to enhancing the functionality of the MineSuite product.

‘It is a logical partnership, with the potential outcome for our global customers being greater than the sum of its parts,’ said Peter Johnson, Maptek General Manager, Australia. ‘Integrating MinLog’s already successful PPMIS with MineSuite will form the basis for developing an industry leading Mining Execution System (MineSuite MES). The MES will significantly improve the functionality and deliver benefits to the mining industry at the production execution level,’ he added.

Managing Director of MinLog, Karel Gilliland, agrees that a mining execution approach at the operational level is essential for optimising productivity across the executional value chain. ‘The partnership allows us to leverage our combined expertise to successfully deploy and support the existing fleet management and MIS solutions. More importantly, it allows us to meet the challenge facing industry with regards to managing across process boundaries,’ he added.

‘A single MES to be used by all disciplines will provide an offering which bridges the gap between process and enterprise levels, and ultimately result in optimisation across the mining value chain.’

Effectively linking and integrating production execution data and reporting with the computerised modelling, mine planning and design functions, which Maptek has pioneered through its Vulcan software, is a core component in the innovative solutions which deliver ever- improving outcomes to operations.