TECHNOLOGY

Finding failure fast

GETTING companies to fail faster. That is one of the aims of Cooperative Research Centre Optimising Resources Extraction CEO Professor Ben Adair because he believes it will lead to them find the path to success a lot quicker.

Noel Dyson
With copper head grades falling dramatically, the focus is on finding technological improvements.

With copper head grades falling dramatically, the focus is on finding technological improvements.

“Failure is just as important as success,” Adair said. This way the companies can work out what does not work and move on with those that do. One of the problems many technology developing companies...

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