Wits Mining Insititute

If you are not dropping 4IR, AI, automation, and Industry 4.0 at this year’s Mining Indaba, then you are not part of the "IT"-crowd.

The mining sector remains a critical part of the economy in South Africa contributing, in 2017, 7% to GDP, 27% to total exports and 19% to fixed investment.

Professor Fred Cawood, director of the Wits Mining Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand, discusses how the university is embracing digitisation in mining and the significant positive impacts it can deliver to the...