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Getting computers to talk to each other can save maintenance costs

MINING companies should adopt ontology – or the machine-interpretable definitions of shared concepts – to improve their maintenance functions and make decisions based on reasoning provided to them in a multitude of formats, according to University of Western Australia school of engineering professor Melinda Hodkiewicz.

Getting computers to talk to each other can save maintenance costs

"A ‘digital thread' using ontology will enable computers to talk to each other by being "systematically interoperable", she told the Future of Mining conference in Sydney yesterday.   "Data should...

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