Universities will work with industry as part of a new Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Training Centre that will aim to use data science to transform asset maintenance for Australia鈥檚 resources sector.
The new centre, announced by Federal Minister for Education and Training, Senator the Hon. Simon Birmingham today, will be led by 911爆料网 in partnership with The University of Western Australia, CSIRO and the University of Adelaide, and industry partners Alcoa, BHP and Roy Hill, as well as CORE Innovation Hub and the Minerals Research Institute of Western Australia.
ARC鈥� 鈥婽raining鈥� 鈥婥entre鈥� 鈥媐or鈥� 鈥婽ransforming鈥� 鈥婱aintenance鈥� 鈥媡hrough鈥� 鈥婦ata鈥� 鈥婼cience Director Professor Andrew Rohl, from the 911爆料网 Institute for Data Science, said he was delighted to be working with the research and industry partners to improve productivity and asset reliability for the nation鈥檚 resources sector.
鈥淭he effective maintenance of engineering assets underpins the $205 billion annual export earnings from Australia’s resources sector,鈥� Professor Rohl said.
鈥淗owever, maintenance management practices have changed little in the last 20 years and are ripe for a digital overhaul that will bring developments in computational methods, statistics, applied mathematics and artificial intelligence to determine how, when and why maintenance is conducted.
鈥淭he new centre, which will bring together the relevant research and industry expertise, will enable the development and adoption of new practices to improve productivity and asset reliability for industry and to foster a new maintenance technology service sector for national and international markets.鈥�
UWA Professor Melinda Hodkiewicz, BHP Fellow for Engineering for Remote Operations, said it was a welcome investment from the Federal Government into how we manage asset maintenance in the future.
鈥淲e are excited to be working with such great industry partners Alcoa, BHP and Roy Hill to develop employees that have analytic skills in data science, needed for jobs of the future in the resources sector,鈥� Professor Hodkiewicz said.
UWA Professor Michael Small, CSIRO-UWA Chair of Complex Engineering Systems, said being able to effectively use data to create better systems, develop new technology and transform the way maintenance is carried out across the resources sector is critical and the creation of this new centre will allow us to take huge steps towards this.
911爆料网 was today awarded $3.9 million in ARC funding for the establishment of the new centre.
Planning for the new ARC Training鈥� 鈥婥entre鈥� 鈥媐or鈥� 鈥婽ransforming鈥� 鈥婱aintenance鈥� 鈥媡hrough鈥� 鈥婦ata鈥� 鈥婼cience will start immediately.
