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AI and IoT in the Mining Industry | Razor Labs' Michael Zolotov | Internet of Things Podcast

IoT For All Podcast · 28 May 2025 · 19m · Episode 376

AI in practice: 2 real uses of AI described

What this episode covers

Michael Zolotov, CTO and co-founder of Razor Labs, explains how their flagship product DataMind AI uses sensor fusion to predict maintenance failures in heavy mining operations. He details the challenge of high-vibration environments causing false alarms in traditional vibration-only systems and describes how combining camera, oil, and vibration data allows for accurate root-cause diagnosis. Zolotov highlights a specific case where they prevented a major mill failure, saving over $100,000 per hour in downtime, and discusses the importance of building trust through transparent AI evidence rather than black-box predictions.

AI in practice

Where this conversation describes AI being used to build or deliver a product. Part of the AI in practice tracker.

Engineering & simulationRazor Labs' AI Sensor Fusion technology

The AI fuses data from diverse sensors (cameras, oil, vibration, pressure, flow, motor current) to diagnose machine root causes and prevent failures without requiring customer-specific training.

“we actually needed to go to Memphis that are much more similar to how ChatGPT is trained to give the customer a model or a season that already works. So we put the sensors, whatever is missing, and we turn up the system and it just works, we don't require it from the customer to do any training or teaching of the AI…”

Speaker 2 · Hear it at 4:11

Engineering & simulationRazor Labs' AI diagnostic engine

The AI analyzes combined sensor data to identify specific failures in noisy mining environments that traditional vibration-only systems miss, enabling preventive maintenance.

“because our system is able to look at many sensors together, it's able to always compare the machine to its same operation mold and to reduce this noise, and uh, we're actually able to find the failure in a machine called meal … they took apart, they had an upcoming issue with their motor. They took it apart before it failed.”

Speaker 2 · Hear it at 6:03

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Companies
Razor Labs, Glencore, Axon Pulse, Axon Vision, Compie Technologies
Products
DataMind AI
Also
ChatGPT

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