ORGANIZATIONAL WARPING IN THE TRANSITION AND INTERACTION PROCESS BETWEEN OPEN PIT AND UNDERGROUND MINING. THE SOMMELIER MODEL

Abstract

Codelco Chile will revolutionize underground mining as we know it today. The large infrastructure developed should be automated and monitored according to the most recent advances in the field. It implies a systemic conception of the operation to allow the remote control of communications and connectivity of the organization, making possible its coordination, cohesion, and management. The foregoing requires the implementation of an integrated technological model, which includes semi-autonomous operations from an integrated operations and control centre, but for this to happen, the entire organization needs to be adjusted. We propose a systemic model based on the control of the Organizational Waste (Variety No Required VNR). To reduce the loss of value (waste) need to evaluate and correct the incoherence in the decision-making processes, break in the continuity of the information flows by poorly designed organizational structures and by the elevated risk in redundancy values because of the disconnection between these.