Heavy Industrial Technology Adoption at Cambrian College (HITACC)

虽然自19世纪末发展以来，加拿大的采矿和重工业流程基本上保持不变，但这些行业最近受益于新技术的可获得性，这些技术有助于提高工作效率、环境友好性和安全性。例如，采矿业受益于机器人技术和物联网(IoT)的出现，但该行业以外还有许多其他新兴技术，有可能改善运营和业务成果。然而，运营商很难采用和整合新技术。导致采用新的颠覆性创新缓慢的一些可能原因包括大量的前期资本投资、缺乏来自竞争的压力、创新场地条件的变化以及创新的未经证实的表现。重工业公司倾向于等待新技术得到证实的结果，然后再考虑采用这些技术。因此，寒武纪学院的应用研究机构寒武纪研发中心(Cambrian R&D)通过其技术获取中心--智能采矿中心--的过往记录，提出了一系列项目，重点是应对将先进技术整合到重工业中的挑战。该学院计划通过与合作伙伴合作开展对工业最终用户具有高价值但需要转化性应用研究以达到部署和商业化的最后一英里的项目，以应对重工业中技术采用和集成的挑战。这一投资组合将由一些项目组成，在这些项目中，Cambrian在重工业领域的技术专长可以帮助寻求在这些行业部署解决方案的公司加快取得成果。这是由于我们的研究团队在高科技解决方案方面的主题专业知识，以及他们在整合新技术时在这些领域常见的陷阱方面的经验。这个项目的新颖之处在于它专注于重工业和产品开发、集成和部署的关键阶段。我们是加拿大仅有的专注于移动设备、矿物加工系统和工业物联网解决方案等重工业技术的学院之一。此外，我们专注于帮助面临部署挑战的公司，并为迫切需要这一领域支持的公司提供了一种创新的价值宣言。

While mining and heavy industrial processes have fundamentally remained the same in Canada since their development in the late 19th century, these sectors have benefitted recently from the availability of new technologies that have helped to make work more efficient, environmentally friendly, and safe. Mining, for example has benefitted from robotics and the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), but there are many other bourgeoning technologies outside of the sector that have the potential to improve operations and business outcomes. Operators, however, have a hard time adopting and integrating new technologies. Some possible reasons that cause the slow adoption of new disruptive innovations include large upfront capital investment, lack of pressure from competition, variations in site conditions for innovation, and unproven performance of the innovation. Heavy industrial companies tend to wait for proven results of new technologies before they consider adopting them. As a result, Cambrian R&D, Cambrian College's applied research arm, building on its track record through its Technology Access Centre, the Centre for Smart Mining, is proposing a portfolio of projects that focus on addressing the challenge of integrating advanced technology into heavy industries. The College plans to address the challenge of technology adoption and integration in heavy industry by focusing on projects with partners that have high-value to industrial end-users but that require translational applied research to get to the last mile of deployment and commercialization. This portfolio will be made up of projects in which Cambrian's expertise in technology in the heavy industrial context can help accelerate results for companies seeking to deploy solutions in these sectors. This is made possible by the subject matter expertise of our research team in high tech solutions and their experience with pitfalls common in these sectors when integrating new technologies.This project is novel in that it focuses on heavy industry and the critical phase of product development, integration, and deployment. We are one of the only colleges in Canada that focuses on heavy industrial technology like mobile equipment, mineral processing systems, and industrial internet of things solutions. Moreover, our focus on helping companies with deployment challenges is unique and offers an innovative value statement to companies desperately needing support in this area.