The 5S Innovation Model: A Tech-Innovation Strategy for the Mine of the Future

This book is aimed to help us look into the future of mining by defining ultimate operational conditions that will be present in a typical mining operation regardless of how far in the future. It introduces an innovation strategy designed to identify current and future technologies to achieve specific ultimate operational conditions that will be present in ‘the mine of the future’.

The mining innovation strategy presented here is the result of several innovation projects where the author had...