Heavy Industrial Technology Adoption at Cambrian College (HITACC)

虽然加拿大的采矿和重工业流程自世纪末发展以来基本保持不变，但这些行业最近受益于新技术的可用性，这些技术有助于使工作更高效，环保和安全。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。导致新的颠覆性创新采用缓慢的一些可能原因包括大量的前期资本投资，缺乏竞争压力，创新场地条件的变化以及创新的未经证实的性能。重工业公司往往在考虑采用新技术之前等待新技术的成熟结果。因此，寒武纪学院的应用研究部门Cambrian R&D通过其技术访问中心智能采矿中心建立了良好的记录，提出了一系列项目，重点是解决将先进技术融入重工业的挑战。该学院计划通过专注于与合作伙伴的项目来解决重工业中技术采用和集成的挑战，这些项目对工业最终用户具有高价值，但需要转化应用研究才能实现部署和商业化的最后一英里。该投资组合将由寒武纪在重工业领域的技术专长项目组成，可以帮助寻求在这些领域部署解决方案的公司加速取得成果。我们的研究团队在高科技解决方案方面的专业知识以及他们在这些领域整合新技术时常见的陷阱方面的经验使这成为可能。该项目的新颖之处在于它专注于重工业以及产品开发、集成和部署的关键阶段。我们是加拿大唯一专注于重工业技术的学院之一，如移动的设备，选矿系统和工业物联网解决方案。此外，我们专注于帮助企业应对部署挑战，这是独一无二的，并为迫切需要这方面支持的企业提供了创新的价值声明。

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.