Mining 4.0: A Digital Transformation Approach to Mining Sector: A Peruvian Case Study

The mining sector remains as the principal in the Peruvian industry; its considerable contribution to GDP, its exploration and integration projects with other sectors; determine its attractiveness. With the consolidation of Digital Transformation discipline to Industry, the term of Mining 4.0 gets attention. Thus, an important element in the understanding of this sector is the characterization of its Digital Transformation involving mainly at the level of convergence. The present work is aimed at employing the benchmark of Digital Transformation into the companies and the Mining 4.0 concept to investigate the convergence in the mining sector of Peru. The methodology of the investigation is descriptive and qualitative, based on a Case Study on seven companies in the mining sector. The unit of study analysis is the Digital Transformation leverage in Peruvian mining. The main research questions are: In what way the Digital transformation has been implemented in the mining firms? What kind of Mining 4.0 principles have been involved during that transition process? At what level of convergence has been developed? As a result, it must be most companies managed Digital Transformation to restarts the operation control systems, incorporating remote control principles of Mining 4.0.