Remote operation centres: The term remote collaboration centres in mining means different things to different people. Andy Sherring weeds out the misunderstanding and presents the hard facts

摘要

Remote operations misunderstood I see a lot of confusion about the subject. I think people are talking about different things and aren't necessarily clear on the goal. This isn't helped by different terminology - so you hear remote operations, remote operation centres, remote collaboration centres, collaborative decision making environments, monitoring centres. All of these have got a place, but it is rather confusing. I prefer to use the term 'integrated operations' and 'integrated operation centres'. For me that's a much more positive term for the broader strategy and goal of what we're trying to achieve here. Remote has got a negative connotation - it's about distance, out of touch. Integrated means positive, trying to make it better. So integrated operations and IOC is integrated operation centres.