“The sixth National Low-grade mineral Resources Efficient use of new technology exchange meeting” was held in Yichun City, Jiangxi Province, known as the “Asian lithium capital”. As one of the world’s leading enterprises in the field of industrial automation, informatization and digital transformation, Rockwell Automation has accumulated a lot of practical experience and successful cases in the mining industry, and was invited to attend the conference and deliver a keynote speech “Rockwell Automation enables smart, low-carbon and high-quality development of low-grade mines”.
China is both a large country of mineral resources and a large consumer country, but compared with the development of international mineral resources, China’s mineral resources have the basic national conditions of low grade ore, more associated ore, more refractory ore and less per capita mineral resources. According to statistics, China’s self-sufficiency rate of copper ore in 2022 is 18.3% and that of bauxite is 41.8%, both at a low level. In addition, with the increase of mining intensity, the grade and mining grade of various mineral resources represented by gold, copper, aluminum, lead, zinc, nickel, vanadium and titanium resources have decreased significantly. In this case, it is particularly important to accelerate the transformation of resource development and utilization methods, strengthen the efficient use of mineral resources, and accelerate the digital transformation and intelligent construction of mining enterprises, which is also an inevitable choice to promote the sustainable development of mining economy.
Rockwell Mining industry business development manager Wu Yang in the keynote report further introduced through automation, machine self-learning, digital twin and other technologies to help OEM equipment manufacturers to build intelligent mining and smelting equipment; Use intelligent operation and maintenance Rockii solution to enable low-grade mining enterprises to upgrade equipment, low-carbon process optimization, and improve production efficiency; Founded the intelligent operation and Maintenance Rockii Alliance, cooperated with enterprises, associations and scientific research institutions in the ecosystem, systematically innovated incubation mode, gathered high-quality resources in the industry, coagulating cross-border innovation force, and helped the integration of production, university and research and intelligent manufacturing talent training.
During the same period of the conference, after several rounds of selection by the organizing committee experts, the “Rockwell Automation to build a domestic high-altitude low-grade copper mine wisdom Mine Case” recommended by Rockwell won the “Scientific and Technological Innovation Award”.
The conference also invited universities, research institutes, mining and metallurgical enterprises and equipment service providers to exchange, around the major needs of resource development technology development and green mine construction problems, digital frontier technology and new technology to make a special report.

Rockwell will continue to promote the progress of common technologies of low-grade ore, co-associated ore and complex and difficult mineral resources, strengthen the green development of mineral resources and the construction of ecological civilization, actively promote the concept of ESG, help the mining industry achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050, and promote the sustained high-quality development of the mining economy.