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Technology & innovation
The world around us is constantly changing; digital transformation is disrupting industries and reshaping how traditional business operate.
Harnessing current technology, AngloGold Ashanti is able to maintain flexibility in responding to changes in our operating environments. We use technological innovation to implement solutions that ensure our workplaces are safe, employees are healthy, motivated, and equipped to do their jobs, and that our processes are efficiently optimised.
AngloGold Ashanti has a multi-pronged approach to innovation, spanning what is currently underway to a ten-year horizon and beyond.
AngloGold Ashanti is in various stages of the implementation of several transformational technology-based solutions, including, but not limited to autonomous drilling, real-time fatigue detection and monitoring, accident collision avoidance, vehicle condition monitoring, plant anomaly detection, robotic platform automation and training bots.
For more information on progress made regarding technology and innovation in 2021, see <IR>21: Business model – Intellectual capital
Our innovation timeline:
- Short term – in collaboration with:
- Innovative companies
- Special organisations
- Universities
- Medium term:
- Collaborative research
- Funding/investing in innovation
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