Designing a smart life cycle management system for a mining enterprise based on Industry 4.0 and circular economy technologies

The relevance of designing smart life cycle management systems for mining enterprises is defined by a number of global challenges that determine the development of the industry, such as the depletion of easily accessible deposits, increasing exploration and production costs, increasingly stringent environmental requirements, digitalization and automation of production processes. The purpose of the research is to create a research methodology and software and hardware support to improve the efficiency, safety and sustainability of mining in the context of depleting mineral resource base, more stringent environmental requirements and digital transformation of the industry. The research methodology is based on the integrated application of the system analysis, mathematical modeling, optimization and information systems design methods. The empirical basis is the data of geological and geophysical surveys, technological and commercial parameters of the mining and concentration processes, environmental and social indicators. As the result, a conceptual model and architecture of the smart life cycle management system of a mining enterprise were developed, as well as methods and algorithms for optimization of the key mining processes with account for the principles of the circular economy, and a prototype of the system tested on the data of real mining enterprises in the Russian Federation. The results obtained have a significant theoretical and practical value, offering prospects for scale-up and commercialization of the smart system to manage the life cycle of a mining enterprise in the mining industry.