"Hack Mining!" - Germany's original raw materials techathon for students
Hack Mining 2024 was a complete success!
Three days of hard work and many more days of preparation have paid off: The student team from RWTH Aachen University, Bochum University of Applied Sciences is the winner of Hack Mining!
Daniel Makschakow, Lucas Tan, Taci Emre Altintas and Maximilian Reisner worked on a multidisciplinary block model visualization tool provided by our challenger Castalytics GmbH.
With a Minecraft-inspired selective visualization of mining-related 3D data, the developed tool provides a crystal-clear holistic representation that facilitates interdisciplinary understanding and collaboration.
In a very close competition with all other participants, the jury was convinced that the team had solved the task of implementing the most innovative approach with efficient precision. The potential for marketability was also part of the jury's decision criteria.
Well done to the winners and to all the teams who took up the challenge, traveled to Essen and took part in the Techathon presented by the DMT GROUP and its partners RWTH Aachen University and VDMA as part of the MiningForum 2024.
We would also like to thank TÜV NORD GROUP Immobilien for providing the inspiring venue on the Essen campus.
DMT GmbH & Co. KG
DMT provides engineering services and consulting, globally and with 280 years ofexperience. With 13 engineering and consulting companies at 30 locations around the globe, we focus on the markets of plant engineering & process technology, infrastructure & construction, energy, and mining. Excellence and innovation in everything we do – that is our claim as an independent global engineering services and consulting company. Sustainable value creation for our clients is the goal. Knowledge, digitisation and globalisation are the keys to this. The group's headquarters (DMT GmbH & Co. KG) is located in Essen, Germany. We lead the engineering division of TÜV NORD GROUP, have numerous state-approved experts and accredited testing laboratories, and employ morethan 100 recognised experts in this area alone. We are involved in more than 40 innovation projects, the majority at international level, and work on the digitisation of existing and new business models, services and products for ourselves and our customers. Furthermore, we act in partnership, in a spirit of trust, solution-oriented, sustainable and ethical – without exception and for the benefit of our customers. This is what we call engineering performance, and this is our attitude and our commitment to the good of a future that we all work to develop positively at all times.
Institute for Advanced Mining Technologies of RWTH Aachen University
The Institute for Advanced Mining Technologies of RWTH Aachen University develops technologies for the automation and digitalization of mining machines and processes toenable safe, efficient and responsible raw material extraction. An important core area of the institute is the development of sensor technologies and corresponding algorithms for thegeneration, acquisition and processing of data and information along the entire data-information-value-chain. The challenging environmental conditions in mines place particularly high demands on people, machines, sensors and algorithms and require robust, connected and intelligent systems and solutions.
VDMA
The VDMA represents over 3,200 mainly small and medium size member companies in the engineering industry, making it one of the largest and most important industrial associationsin Europe. With an export quota amounting to 96 per cent, mining technology is one of the most export-oriented branches of the German engineering industry. VDMA Mining represents well-known, mainly medium-sized companies from the sectors open castmining/materials handling, underground mining, mining processing technology and consulting, research and development. 145 companies merged in VDMA Mining representing more than 90 per cent of the entire trade volume.