Omnia Holdings company BME has strengthened its blasting software offering beyond its premium Blastmap™ blast planning platform through a new partnership with technology leader Strayos. This alliance brings together BME’s blasting expertise and Strayos’ advanced image processing and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, delivering enhanced functionality, precision, and next-generation software solutions to the mining industry.
XPLOSMART™, the new AI-enabled suite of software for integrated mine-to-mill solutions from BME will empower mines, quarries and construction companies with geospatial tools and AI-driven modelling across a single data platform, according to Nishen Hariparsad, BME General Manager for Technology and Marketing.
“This collaboration marks an important milestone for BME in strengthening our value proposition to customers,” said Hariparsad. “With XPLOSMART™, we empower our customers and partners through streamlined workflows that integrate geospatial, time-series, and visual data with intelligent analytics. The result is powerful predictive insights, post-blast analysis, and optimisation across the mine-to-mill value chain — all while further enhancing safety and reducing risk..”
He highlighted that the new system also provides more insight for customers, allowing them to define pain points in their operations, both upstream and downstream of the blasting circuit. With a footprint across over 5,000 sites and growing, the alliance with Strayos brings a proven track record and reputation for quality and a 24/7 customer service support network.
Best of both
“Our new premium software offering is aligned with BME’s brand identity and reputation, ensuring that we leverage the ‘best of both’ technologies from a symbiotic relationship between BME and Strayos,” he explained.
XPLOSMART™, powered by Strayos technology includes 3D photogrammetry, drone fragmentation, rock mass analysis and smart drill analytics, as well as geotechnical analysis and modelling. Hariparsad said that this enhances BME’s offering as a future-fit, mine-to-mill solution with modular and integrated solutions underpinned by AI – extending our capabilities into ore body movement, haul-road intelligence, highwall safety and rock mass AI.
“Significant advantages can be gained within the comminution circuit, enabling mine-to-mill benefits to be realised,” he said. “Each blast is designed to achieve the best outcome on the bench and downstream.”
Customers have access to improved data, allowing them the opportunity to interrogate their benches from the perspective of geology, drilling, blasting, and mill throughput. Hariparsad noted that the benefit extends beyond financial performance to the ESG imperatives of customers – such as the wellbeing of communities and the environment.
Cutting edge innovation driving strategic global growth
“Automation integration is now possible with AI technologies, where doing more with less has always been the target,” he said. “This has been achieved by pairing AI-enabled technologies with premium blasting solutions.”
As a leader in the field of AI, Strayos continually invests and grows in this sector, which aligns with BME’s value proposition of staying ahead of the innovation curve.
“This alliance presents an excellent strategic fit between our two companies, with significant growth opportunities through various streams,” concluded Hariparsad. “These avenues include digitisation, digital twinning, AI-technologies, infrastructure optimisation, cost savings, improved efficiency, automation and others, that our customers will reap the benefits from. There is also scope in terms of our technical services and shared resourcing, providing a platform for continual innovation to expedite global growth and strategic expansion initiatives, adding to the excitement this alliance provides.”
