Connected Mine. Better mining production data, more profitable mines.

Connected Mine gets the right mining production data to the right people at the right time. No more delays, no more errors, no more confusion.

With Connected Mine, you’ll finally be able to trust your data and pinpoint exactly where to focus and get huge results.

25+ years, 70+ mines.

Connected Mine home screen showing drill productivity, tonnage by time, day comments and process data against budget

25+

years building mining data systems

70+

mine sites using us globally

50+

mining system integrations

Tier 1

used by some of the world’s biggest miners

Is your mine running on numbers nobody trusts?

Have you ever seen someone stuck in a problem, burning their tires trying to solve it with virtually no impact? Sometimes, the solution is as simple as stepping back and looking at the whole value chain.

But when every system tells a different story, nobody can see the whole value chain.

  • ✕Fleet, drill, survey and plant systems that never agree
  • ✕Waiting a long time for data and reports, then rebuilding them by hand
  • ✕Worrying you are off plan, but always finding out too late
  • ✕Nobody can tell you why you didn’t hit the numbers for the week

Better Mining Production Data Quality and Reliability

Connected Mine integrates your source systems so production data arrives clean, consistent and ready to trust.

Save Time and Money on Insights

Get tailored solutions that significantly reduce the time needed to develop meaningful insights.

Increase Governance Over Mining Production Data

Ensure your data is consistently prepared, interpreted, and utilised correctly.

Maximize Operational Impact

Empower your best and brightest across all departments to take action on valuable insights.

Mining Production Data and Analytics you can Rely On.

Most people just want accurate and reliable production reporting, without all the hassle we’ve grown accustomed to in the mining data world.

That’s why we created Connected Mine, software that delivers rock-solid reporting while offering analytical capabilities that are second to none.

Trusted by 70+ Operations Globally

Built into Caterpillar’s MineStar Reporting

Cat® MineStar™ Reporting was launched using Connected Mine technology, in partnership with Information Alignment, to bring MineStar and other vendor data into a single interface.

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Colowyo Coal: one source of truth from mine to rail

Colowyo Coal Co. in Colorado chose Connected Mine to consolidate data from three onboard systems and other sources between the mine and its rail load-out.

Read the case study

What is Connected Mine?

Connected Mine is enterprise software for mine production data. It runs at more than 70 mine sites, and Information Alignment has built it in Perth, Western Australia, since 2001. Getting to one version of the truth takes three steps. See how the Connected Mine platform fits together.

1

Connect your site systems

Fleet management, drill and blast, survey, mine planning, SCADA, plant historians, weighbridges and ERP, whatever the vendor.

2

Apply one set of business rules

Delay codes, material classes, tonnage factors and shift definitions agreed once and applied everywhere.

3

Report it the way you work

Connected Mine reports and mining dashboards, or Power BI, Fabric and Databricks through FactStream and StarStream.

Uncover your biggest opportunities in seconds.

With Connected Mine, you get an end-to-end view of your entire operation, including Geological, Survey, Drill and Blasting, Mining, Processing, Product, Rail, and Shipping. Stop relying on manual spreadsheets and explore our enterprise mining dashboards to get real-time visibility across your operation.

Geological›Survey›Drill and Blasting›Mining›Processing›Product›Rail›Shipping
Connected Mine connector library: fleet, drill and blast, plant, ERP and planning systems all feeding one Connected Mine model

Mining Production Data Management and Reporting Systems

Enhance the management of your mine.

C-MP

Connected Mine Performance

Unlock the Potential of your Mining Production Data

Integrates disparate and siloed sources of production data into one central source.

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C-PP

Connected Process Performance

Complete the cycle

Production data management and reporting system for plants and operations that correlate Mining and Process data.

Explore Connected Process Performance

C-DAS

Connected Data Analysis Services

Add meaning to your Mining Production Data

Diverse and rich set of tools to create dashboards, reports, and analysis reports, integrates with C-SI to provide visualization of data.

Explore Connected Data Analysis Services

C-SI

Connected Spatial Intelligence

Right before your very eyes

Toolset to create detailed visualizations of operations, and operational and transactional data in a true temporal 4D view.

Explore Connected Spatial Intelligence

FactStream and StarStream

350 standard metrics every 10 minutes, and a ready-to-go star schema for Power BI, Fabric and Databricks.

Explore FactStream and StarStream

STIC short interval control

Alerts the control room to critical events, so problems are fixed during the shift, not after it.

Explore STIC

Mining dashboards

Production, time usage, drill and blast and reconciliation dashboards on one validated data model.

See the mining dashboards

Smaller site or quarry? See Connected Mine Lite, MDC-Core and GuidEx, or browse all our mining software products.

Extensive library of Source System Integrations

Free yourself from endless hours inside analytical tools.

This means you can stop spending so much time wrangling data and start using your data to make a real impact in your business.

Without Connected Mine

  • ✕You find out you are off plan too late to recover
  • ✕“I said we were 120kt ahead. Sorry boss, 79kt behind.”
  • ✕Meetings spent arguing over whose number is right
  • ✕Engineers stuck in spreadsheets, not improving the mine

With Connected Mine

  • ✓Plan versus actual is the same number for everyone, every shift
  • ✓Problems are spotted during the shift, not after the month
  • ✓People spend their time analysing performance, not building reports
  • ✓More productive, more profitable mines

Frequently Asked Questions About Connected Mine

Connected Mine by Information Alignment is an enterprise mining production data platform trusted across 70+ mining operations globally. It centralizes operational data across the full value chain, planning, geological, drill and blast, load and haul, processing, rail, and port.

Through Connected Data Analysis Services (C-DAS) and Connected Spatial Intelligence (C-SI), Connected Mine provides real-time mining dashboards and automated reporting, integrating directly with Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, Fabric and custom other reporting tools.

Connected Mine connects directly to fleet management systems (FMS), Drill and Blast Systems, Mine Planning Systems, SCADA, plant historians, weighbridges, geological modeling tools, and ERPs to eliminate data silos and produce audit-ready operational metrics.

Connected Mine is deployed as a secure web application tailored to your site architecture, supporting on-premise, cloud, or hybrid environments.

Connected Mine is developed by Information Alignment Pty Ltd (INAPL), based in Perth, Western Australia. Information Alignment has built mining data systems since 2001.

See Connected Mine on your own data

Talk to us about one version of the truth for your operation.

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