While politicians clamour to ‘bring jobs home’, automation is increasingly taking those jobs away with the mining industry being the best example.
In 2015, McKinsey looked at the effects of automation in various US industries and found the production component of mining could lose over 80% of its jobs in coming years.
In a piece for Diginomica this week , I looked at a case study featuring Western Australia’s Fortescue Metal Group (FMG) from the recent AWS Summit in Sydney.When Fortescue planned their Solomon groups of iron ore mines in the Pilbara region of North-Western Australia in 2010, they estimated […]
Full Post at paulwallbank.com