Interoperability is the term used to describe information exchange between technologies used to manage, coordinate, monitor, and control fleets of autonomous and manually operated mining equipment.

Under a collaborative project, the mining industry is looking to establish, test and trial interfaces, across mining operations in Australia.

METS Ignited has established the collaborative project with Roy Hill, Gold Fields Australia, and numerous contractors and technology developers.

The collaboration, dubbed the transformative interoperability project, is part of the Transformative Automation for METS and Mining initiative funded by industry and the federal government.

METS Ignited transformative automation lead Gareth Dean said the backing of multiple industry leaders had been the catalyst for the success of the METS Ignited-sponsored project to date.

"And we continue to see more getting involved in the next stages of the project," he said.

The venture will focus on validating information requirements and information exchange technology to support mining process.