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Deep Automation Underground Drilling

Epiroc’s suite of automation solutions for face drilling, production drilling and rock reinforcement

Onboard and control room automation enable operators to control machines from a safe distance, minimizing exposure to hazardous mine environments.

Automation drives productivity through continuous operations and seamless data integration.

Through consistent execution, automation empowers mines to optimize operations and achieve fast, predictable, and high‑quality results throughout the entire mining cycle.

Driving productivity through intelligent automation in underground mining and tunneling

Work safely. Mine smarter. Think deeper.

Deep Automation for drilling is Epiroc’s suite of automation solutions for underground drilling and bolting. It enables safer, smarter, and more efficient mine development and stoping processes through data and information flow, drill planning, automated operations and precise execution. It supports customers at every stage of their automation journey, from remote operations to higher levels of autonomy, while ensuring predictable performance and consistent results.

Where automation creates value

Increased productivity

Shared and transparent data across planning, drilling, bolting, charging and blasting
Fewer unplanned stops and accelerated access to ore
Increased meters by up to 30%
Shorter development and stope cycles

Predictable, high-quality outcomes

Improve tunnel profile quality and accuracy
Reduced dilution and rework
Decrease overbreak/underbreak by 0-10%
Automated drilling improves repeatability and consistency

Greater precision, lower costs

Lower overall costs
Maximized return on capital investment
Minimized wastes and ground support costs
Each step contributes information that the next step can trust and use

Improved safety

Safer and more consistent working environment
Safer operations with reduced exposure and manual intervention

Female operator lifting drill pipe with remote controlled crane on Easer E10 S in underground mine

A solution for you - wherever you are on your automation journey

Laptop computer with Underground Manager 2.0 software on screen

Digital planning

Digital process that connects the information flow from planning to execution and reporting, ensuring precision, continuous improvement, and better decision‑making.

Automated operations

Minimize human interference during drilling and bolting with on-board and control room automation.

Operator holding levers on control panel in cabin of Easer E10 S raiseboring machine

Safety

Built‑in safety features that secure safe operations through controlled access, safeguarded machine behavior, and protected working environments.

Seamless operations benefit the entire mining cycle

Seamless operations across the mining cycle drive performance at every stage. Greater drilling accuracy enables more meters, less emulsion, and smoother blasting, resulting in better fragmentation and contour control. This improves downstream processes - from reduced ventilation needs and more efficient load and haul to less need for reinforcement and better and easier bolt installation. The result is a fully connected process delivering predictable, repeatable performance and optimized operations throughout the entire mining cycle.

Mine development

Deep Automation solutions for drilling optimize the entire underground drill and blast cycle. In mine development, it all starts with drilling and charging, the critical steps that set the pace for the entire operation. Quality at the beginning ensures faster and smoother progress in every stage that follows.

Boomer M20 SG at the face of underground mine, rear left view

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Optimize your mine development cycle

Maximize downstream value through precision and consistency.

Stope optimization

With Deep Automation solutions for drilling, stope optimization becomes a data-driven process that connects mine planning and geology directly to production drilling execution on Simba and Easer machines – with a clear pathway toward teleremote operation and higher levels of automation.

Simba E60 S in an underground mine, left rear view, low angle

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Optimize your stope cycle

Connect machines, data, automation, and people into one continuous workflow.

Deep Automation Underground Drilling