AI-Optimized Drill Planning
This AI solution uses AI to plan, monitor, and autonomously optimize drilling activities across mine sites, from blast-hole layout through real-time rate-of-penetration control. By integrating geology, equipment, and processing data, it continuously improves drill patterns, reduces non-productive time, and aligns drilling with downstream plant performance. The result is higher ore recovery, lower unit costs, and safer, more predictable drilling operations at scale.
The Problem
“Your drilling plans are static while your orebody and equipment change by the hour”
Organizations face these key challenges:
Drilling performance and ore recovery vary widely between shifts, rigs, and operators
Blast-hole layouts are based on outdated models and rarely updated with real-time data
Non-productive time from stuck pipe, bit wear, and parameter mis‑tuning quietly erodes margins
Drilling decisions are made without clear visibility into downstream plant constraints and bottlenecks
Engineers spend hours wrangling data from geology, fleet, and plant systems just to understand what happened yesterday
Impact When Solved
Technologies
Technologies commonly used in AI-Optimized Drill Planning implementations: