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Basic Materials

AI Case Studies

Big River Steel

Mining And Metals

Big River Steel makes more accurate demand predictions using machine learning

Supply Chain

Big River Steel

Mining And Metals

Big River Steel reduces cost of outbound transportation and optimises delivery windows using machine learning

Supply Chain

Roy Hill

Mining And Metals

Roy Hill iron ore project optimises mine operations planning based on predicting supply chain outcomes

Supply Chain

BHP

Mining And Metals

BHP saves $5.5M by predicting mining truck maintenance requirements with machine learning

Strategy

Big River Steel

Mining And Metals

Big River Steel optimises production and minimises unplanned events in the production process process with machine learning

Strategy

Freeport-McMoRan

Mining And Metals

Freeport-McMoRan improves rock face assessment for better planning of steep blasting mining using drones

Strategy

Goldcorp Inc.

Mining And Metals

Goldcorp plans to increase accuracy of identifying potential mining prospecting areas using IBM Watson and machine learning to analyse drilling and geological data

Strategy

Jerritt Canyon Gold LLC

Mining And Metals

Jerrit Canyon Gold identifies high prospectability areas using Goldspot Discoveries' machine learning geological model

Strategy

Gemological Institute of America

Mining And Metals

Gemological Institute of America predicts with 90% accuracy a diamond's grade from camera images using neural networks in partnership with IBM Research

R And D

AngloGold Ashanti

Mining And Metals

Researchers investigate a cost-effective machine learning method for identifying gold from waste during ore sorting at an AngloGold Ashanti mine

R And D

Big River Steel

Mining And Metals

Big River Steel maximises energy consumption at off-peak times to minimise energy costs using an AI powered optimisation model

Operations

Big River Steel

Mining And Metals

Big River Steel predicts and optimises the maintenance of its machinery and equipment using machine learning.

Operations

Newcrest Mining

Mining And Metals

Newcrest Mining prevents mill downtime at its Lihir mine using machine learning to predict when an overload is about to occur

Operations

Roy Hill

Mining And Metals

Roy Hill iron ore project is developing a transportation vehicle maintenance prediction and prevention recommendation platform

Operations

South32

Mining And Metals

South32 trials first fully autonomous drone system from Airobotics for mine surveillance

Operations

Rio Tinto

Mining And Metals

Rio Tinto machinery operators wear SmartCaps to detect dangerous levels of fatique by applying neural networks to brain signals

Human Resources

Big River Steel

Mining And Metals

Big River Steel is predicting the availability of scrap steel using a predictive AI engine

Finance

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Chemicals

Researchers at EPFL predict chemical shifts of molecular solids and their polymorphs to within DFT accuracy with machine learning

R And D

University of Glasgow

Chemicals

Researchers at the University of Glasgow have developed an AI-powered robot to discover new molecules from known chemical reactions

R And D

Kebotix

Chemicals

Kebotix aims to speed up materials discovery with machine learning

Information Technology

Connecterra

Agriculture

Connecterra increases dairy production by as much as 30% by tracking and analysing the health of cows with machine learning

Strategy

Deveron UAS Corp.

Agriculture

Deveron is a vendor offering technology for crops counting and yield measuring leveraging drones and machine learning

Strategy

Open Agriculture Initiative

Agriculture

Open Agriculture Initiative identifies optimal growing conditions and correlations for optimising basil flavour using machine learning

Strategy

PlantVillage

Agriculture

PlantVillage detects multiple diseases in Cassava plants with machine learning

Strategy

Small Robot Company

Agriculture

Small Robot Company is a vendor which hopes to deploy robots to reduce chemicals and emissions while increasing farm profitability

Strategy

United Phosphorous (UPL)

Agriculture

United Phosphorous (UPL) and Microsoft machine learning predictions were used to alert farmers to the likelihood of pest infestation resulting in the doubling of farm income

Strategy

Beck's Hybrids

Agriculture

Beck's Hybrids is predicting the highest-yielding corn seeds from more than 30,000 genetic possibilities using an AI powered modeling engine

R And D

IBM

Agriculture

IBM Brazil researchers develop device to measure chemicals in samples of water and soil using machine learning and vision

R And D

Monsanto

Agriculture

Monsanto plans to increase agriculture product research using Second Genome to predict outcomes of protein use

R And D

Monsanto

Agriculture

Monsanto plans to speed up crop protection product development using Atomwise's convolutional neural network technology for molecule interaction discovery

R And D

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