Engineers at the pit, not in a slide deck
Forward Deployed Engineers work on site with the mine agent, fleet controller and store keeper — and ship to production on live shift data.
Industries / Mining
Run the whole mine on one screen.
Production, fleet, fuel, safety and survey on one operational record — built inside the mine, alongside SAP.
Trusted by operators and enterprises
The problem
A mine runs on systems that never reconcile. We build the one operational record it runs on — inside the mine, alongside SAP.
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Disconnected systems
ERP, OEM portals, fuel apps, weighbridge logs and spreadsheets. Every number has to be re-keyed to be believed.
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HQ sees yesterday
Production and fuel arrive as a next-morning MIS. By then the shift — and the decision — is gone.
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Paper is the record
Registers for fuel, spares, blasts and incidents. Nothing is queryable, nothing is auditable.
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Money leaks quietly
Parts replaced under live warranty and never claimed. Spares issued with no trace of the machine that used them.
Industry report · October 2026
The State of AI in Mining 2026
Where AI is delivering value for mine operators, why most pilots stall, and a 90-day playbook for capturing it.
- 2–5%
- higher site throughput from proven AI applications
- 2–4 pts
- of margin improvement
Five findings inside
- The industry has caught up, but unevenly.
- Value concentrates in a few proven areas.
- The biggest wins avoid capital spend.
- People and process decide outcomes, not algorithms.
- In India, digitisation and compliance come first.
33 pages. Draws on published research from BCG, McKinsey, Deloitte and BHP, industry market data, and KnackLabs’ own work with Indian mining operators.
Centralised operations
Production, fleet, fuel, stores, safety, workforce and compliance across every site, in one command center.
Runs alongside SAP
No rip-and-replace. The platform runs operations and posts to SAP; SAP stays the system of record for finance.
Ask, don't report
“Which equipment burned the most fuel this week?” — answered in plain English, in seconds, not a Monday MIS.
Every function the mine runs, on one record.
GPS and i3MS, reconciled daily
- GPS trips and i3MS figures side by side — the gap is visible, not argued.
- Coal, OB and stripping ratio against target, monthly and yearly.
- Declared production checked against survey and weighbridge parchis.
Your mine, drawn to bench
- A live map over the real site: pit, benches, OB dumps, stockpile and workshop as zones.
- Every machine colour-coded — active, idle, fuelling, maintenance, breakdown.
- Trips, tonnage, cycle time and fuel for each HEMM, with geofencing built in.
Every litre has a machine's name on it
- Vendor to site, tank to bowser, bowser to machine — the full custody chain.
- Machine, operator, litres and HMR/ODO reading captured at the nozzle.
- Hectronic dispensers and OEM/OBD telematics post directly — no manual register.
Which part, which machine, under what warranty
- A stock register down to the item: reorder level, valuation and status per material code.
- Warranty alerts before the spend, while a sub-assembly is still under OEM cover.
- Repeat-failure detection — the same assembly failing twice is a case, not a coincidence.
Audit-ready is a query, not a scramble
- DGMS-compliant incident reporting, near-miss capture and digital permits to work.
- Magazine to blast face: detonator control and blast logs with shot-firer compliance.
- A non-editable audit trail mapped to DGMS Circular 08/2020.
A drone survey the whole mine can open
- Orthomosaics, point clouds and terrain as an interactive 3D model, in any browser.
- Stockpile volume and cut-and-fill measured without opening CAD.
- Haul roads flagged where they run narrower or steeper than DGMS limits.
Cost per tonne, by tonight
- Revenue from weighbridge dispatch; diesel, workforce, explosives and contractor costs pulled live.
- Equipment-wise opex, comparable across mines, for any day, range or month.
- Ask the mine a question in plain English and get the chart back.
The MIS assistant is on the MineOps roadmap.
See it in MineOpsmineops / production/overviewLIVE
mineops / fleet/live-mapLIVE
mineops / fuel/captureLIVE
mineops / store/stock-registerLIVE
mineops / safetyLIVE
gis portal / site viewLIVE
mineops / mis-assistantLIVE
See it on your own shift data.
30 minutes. Bring one problem from your mine — leave knowing how we'd solve it.
MineOps puts an entire opencast coal mine on one platform for Sainik Mining and MineGate. In delivery, go-live FY 2027–28.
- 13 → 1
- functions on one platform
- 9
- role views, weighbridge to Mine ED
- 4
- enterprise integrations
- ~25
- DGMS obligations mapped
Client voice
In their words.
Our planners could open a web browser, pull up any mining site, and get a cut-fill volume or a haul-road safety check on the spot. No CAD, no waiting on the GIS team.
Himalay SharmaOperations Head, MineGateRead the GIS Portal story As featured in
We run the mine. SAP keeps the books.
ERP / SAP — system of record
Finance and enterprise control
- Finance & accounting
- Corporate procurement
- Enterprise controls & audit
- Payroll & HR master
- Statutory reporting
MineOps — system of operations
Everything that happens in the pit
- Production & dispatch
- Fleet, fuel & GPS
- Stores, spares & warranty
- Safety, explosives & DGMS
- Daily cost per tonne
Nothing is removed. MineOps posts operational entries into the ERP, updated as the shift happens.
Connects toSAP ECCHectronicGPSWeighbridgeBiometricOEM / OBDPix4DArcGIS
Why mining operators build with us
We don't hand a mine a product and leave. We embed engineers at the site, build on the systems you already run, and you own what we ship.
Compliance in the core
Digital Form-A registers, biometric attendance and a non-editable audit trail, mapped to DGMS Circular 08/2020 from the start.
Built for the pit
Attendance, fuel, parchi and checklists run offline where the signal drops, and sync when the pit comes back online.
Your cloud, your models, AI on top
You own what we ship. Anomaly detection, breakdown prediction and the MIS assistant layer on top of one system of record.
Our AI partners
Built with the labs shaping what's next.
OpenAI
OpenAI models and tools for building intelligent systems and AI-powered workflows.
Sarvam
AI built for India, with capabilities across language, voice and enterprise use cases.
LangChain
We run the LangChain community and events in India.
Where we start
Start with one mine.
One site, one integration, a running deployment your GM can judge on real shift data. Then decide about the rest of the group.
- 1
Discovery and process assessment at one site
- 2
Proof of concept on live shift data, with ERP integration validated
- 3
Group rollout roadmap and commercial proposal
Do we have to replace SAP to use MineOps?
No. MineOps runs mine operations and posts operational entries into SAP, which stays the system of record for finance, procurement, controls, payroll and statutory reporting. Nothing is removed. The ERP connector is endpoint-agnostic, so it can work with SAP ECC or another ERP such as Tally.
How does MineOps help with DGMS compliance?
Compliance is built into the platform rather than added later. MineOps maps around 25 DGMS obligations to its modules and is built to the DGMS Circular 08/2020 digital mandate, with digital Form-A registers, biometric attendance, machinery reference numbers, fatigue management and a non-editable, append-only audit trail.
Does it work in the pit where there is no network?
Yes. Critical field forms — attendance, fuel, parchi and checklists — run offline as a progressive web app on the device and sync automatically when the connection comes back.
Which systems does MineOps connect to?
MineOps integrates with SAP ECC, Hectronic fuel telemetry, biometric attendance and GPS, and works with weighbridge and OEM/OBD telematics data. Drone survey outputs from Pix4D, ArcGIS and CAD (GeoTIFF, LAS and PDF) feed the GIS Portal.
How do you reconcile production figures from different sources?
Coal extraction is captured three ways — survey, GPS trips and manual odometer or parchi readings via OCR — and reconciled into one number. GPS and i3MS figures are shown side by side, so the gap between them is visible rather than argued.
Can you calculate cost per tonne every day?
Yes. Because every module writes to the same operational record, a daily P&L combines dispatch revenue with diesel, workforce, explosives and contractor costs, giving cost per tonne for any day, date range or month instead of waiting for month-end.
Where does AI come in?
AI sits on top of one reliable system of record. The GIS Portal already measures stockpile volumes, cut-and-fill and DGMS haul-road limits in the browser. On the MineOps roadmap are fuel-theft anomaly detection, equipment-breakdown prediction and a natural-language MIS assistant that answers questions like "Which equipment burned the most fuel this week?"
What is a Forward Deployed Engineer?
A Forward Deployed Engineer is a KnackLabs engineer who works on site with your team — the mine agent, fleet controller, store keeper and safety officer — and ships to production on live shift data, instead of handing over a product and leaving.
How do we get started?
Start with one mine. We begin with discovery and a process assessment at one site, then a proof of concept on live shift data with the ERP integration validated, followed by a group rollout roadmap and commercial proposal. Your GM judges it on real shift data before you decide on the rest of the group.
Who owns the platform?
You do. We build on the systems you already run, and you own what we ship.
