DRA Global wholly owned subsidiary, Minopex, and 4Sight join forces to create unique value proposition for minerals industry


Johannesburg, 23 Jul 2021

4Sight Holdings and Minopex, a wholly owned subsidiary of DRA Global, announce the signing of a joint memorandum of understanding to develop a distinctive service and solution offering for the mining and minerals industry. 

Minopex services customers operating in the base and precious metals, stones and bulk commodities sector. With two decades of experience managing operations and maintenance, and advising customers in this sector, Minopex is highly proficient at improving productivity sustainably and in real-time and has significant intellectual capital in this area.

“Our work involves large, highly complex systems and data sets, and 4Sight provides technology platforms that are designed for the minerals/bulk commodities sector, which we believe will allow us to work across the entire value chain. Through the use of data, simulation and automation, we will be able to improve productivity in a sustainable way – reducing plant and process variations, improving efficiencies and asset reliability and increasing performance. Such platforms allow the free flow of data that can be used for highly sophisticated analytics,” says James Smith, Executive Vice-President Minopex and Advisory at DRA. “4Sight are experts in utilising systems to exploit all this data, something that humans cannot hope to do unaided.”

Wilhelm Swart, Managing Director: 4Sight BluESP, agrees that the 4Sight/Minopex collaboration has great potential for the industry. “In the mineral resources sector generally, the big opportunity is to bring operational technologies (OT) and information technologies (IT) together, to realise the benefits of the fourth industrial revolution. When you combine our expertise in the OT/IT space, where we have a growing number of our own solutions, with the in-depth industry and process knowledge from Minopex, then you have something with extraordinary potential to change the game for our customers,” he says.

Swart says there are numerous opportunities where the collaboration between the two companies can yield substantial benefits. Key opportunities include simulation modelling and digital twins, prescriptive and preventative maintenance, and advanced process control. In all of these, exceptional analytics and modelling tools use data from the operational and IT systems to optimise complex operations. Taking into account Minopex DRA’s execution capabilities, the partnership’s solutions can quickly be taken from concept into practice, with a focus on delivering tangible results.

Cost reductions of up to 20% and capacity increases of 10% and more have already been achieved for customers. More importantly, sustained performance excellence is underpinned by continuous improvement, further enhancing the value proposition for customers.

Both companies have deep roots in Africa and a focus on global expansion, with existing customers across the Middle East, Australia and the Americas. 


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4Sight

4Sight is a JSE AltX (ticker: 4SI) listed, multi-national, diversified technology group. Our purpose is to leverage our extensive product and services portfolio, focused on 4IR technologies, people and data-focused solutions to design, develop, deploy and grow solutions for our partners (customers and vendors). Our mission is to empower our partners to future proof their businesses through digital transformation to make better and more informed decisions in the modern digital economy.

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DRA Global

DRA Global Limited (ASX: DRA | JSE: DRA) (DRA or the Company) is a multi-disciplinary engineering, project management and operations management group predominantly focused on the mining and minerals resources sector. DRA has an extensive global track record, spanning more than three decades and more than 7,500 studies and projects as well as operations and maintenance solutions across a wide range of commodities.

DRA has expertise in mining, minerals and metals processing and related non-process infrastructure including ESG, water and energy solutions for the mining industry. DRA delivers advisory, engineering and project delivery services throughout the capital project lifecycle from concept though to operational readiness and commissioning as well as ongoing operations, maintenance and shutdown services.

DRA, headquartered in Perth, Australia, and services its global customer base through 20 offices across Asia-Pacific, North and South America, Europe, Middle East and Africa.

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