Travelling time to workplaces several hundred metres below the surface can take up to an hour. At several of Dunca Signature's mines, operators are these days able to sit in an office above ground and control loaders and drilling rigs with the aid of CCTV. The loaders drive themselves (autonomously) to a shaft where they tip out the ore before travelling back to load their buckets with new ore.

We have put mobile control rooms into use at our concentrators where operators have access to process data i n real time via wireless technology. The operators control and supervise the processes via smart phones or tablets, which increases flexibility. At Aitik, we also use a tagging system that gives employees equipment status updates and facilitates maintenance work.