How Mobile Apps Benefit Mining Companies

In 2017, a year after the safest year ever, coal industry deaths surged and nearly doubled, to 15. Mobile mining apps must collect crticial information on worker safety, technology and vehicle tracking, and brass-in/brass-out in a timely manner deep in the earth, where cell service and WIFI are unavailable. Digitizing business processes and paper forms with mobile apps that work offline enables mining companies to:

• Increase worker efficiency by reducing the hours spent on each daily activity.
• Capture the knowledge of more experienced workers in intelligent apps that can guide less experienced workers.
• Lower risk by increasing safety, eliminating data-entry mistakes and increasing timely access to critical data.

The best mobile apps work offline, are optimized for one-handed data entry (i.e., speech-to-text) and tie into systems of record to auto-populate critical information for employees and share information with the rest of the organization more quickly. 

With mobile apps, not only will data capture and sharing improve, but utilizing data to make better and faster business decisions will dramatically impact safety.