Manish Chawla
“ Companies that get this journey right are on the way to being a Cognitive Enterprise ,” affirms Nelson . “ In our experience , critical areas for natural resources industries to get right on this journey are openness and collaboration , integration , intelligent workflows and cultural skills . In a time of continued volatility and disruption , open innovation and co-creation are vital to be able to partner across ecosystems and learn from other industries to achieve fundamental transformation as 90 % of the jobs in mining are changed , not necessarily replaced , through technology .”
How is IBM helping companies embrace Mining 4.0 and support the move towards the digital mine of the future ? “ We ’ ve developed a data-driven productivity platform with Sandvik , a leading supplier of underground mining equipment . This partnership has seen us connect their assets , their equipment , to our cloud to be able to pull data off . The value proposition to a mining company is not only to get data from the Sandvik equipment , but also from other vendor feeds ,” explains Chawla . “ Interoperability as well as the open data standard is critical for
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Manish Chawla
EXECUTIVE PROFILE
An ecosystem thinker , Chawla is an experienced Global Manager with a demonstrated history of leading and scaling technology-driven businesses in the energy & resources , industrial and construction , sectors . His passion is helping companies leverage exponential technologies ( AI , IoT , Blockchain , Industry 4.0 , AR / VR , 5G etc ) to fundamentally re-imagine their enterprises in the platform economy to survive ( and thrive ) in the face of the three climate changes - environment , globalisation and technology
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