Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Abdulla Azizov, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Almalyk Mining and Metallurgy Combine (AGMK) for digitalization, and specialists of the plant, at the invitation of the management of Huawei, visited the People’s Republic of China.

During the visit to the company’s head office, production plant and research center, AGMK representatives got acquainted with the company’s new developments, digital technologies and solutions in the mining industry. These are the digitalization of mining operations, the organization of a dispatch service that allows planning and monitoring of technological processes, the autonomy of cargo transportation in open deposits using artificial intelligence, wireless transmission of information in underground mines, video analytics, control via fiber optic cables, and others.

In the course of negotiations with the vice president of the company in the direction of the mining industry, an agreement was reached on joint cooperation.

“In the process of getting acquainted with the activities of the company, what attracted my attention most of all was that at present, more than 110,000 people work in the field of “Research and Development” (research and development) of the company and 25.1% (US$23.16 billion) of profit the enterprise is aimed specifically at R&D,” said Abdulla Azizov. “This means that it is time to stop copying from the leading developed companies, because they have already reached their level. It’s time to take the lead. Similar research centers should be created in our country as well. We should apply the Chinese experience without any fear. Now we do not have an urgent need to create innovations, we first of all need to implement existing ones. It makes sense to direct forces to the invention of something new after the completion of several stages, the achievement of the formed infrastructure.”