Alliance – Strategic Missions and Industrial Research Projects

A strategic, structured, and coordinated vision for sustainable industry practices

Energy and digital transitions are driving profound changes across the industry. The Alliance pillar, orchestrated by MISA Group, mobilizes the strengths of industry, industrial research, and innovation to master knowledge and adopt the technologies that will guide these transitions.

MISA Group plays a dual and complementary role:

• Strategic missions, led by MISA Group and its collaborators, serve to mobilize ecosystem stakeholders around common issues and to orient the industry’s key priorities.

• Industrial research projects, coordinated by MISA Group, aim to generate knowledge, test, and validate concrete technological solutions that respond directly to the industry’s immediate needs.

Alliance brings ecosystem partners together around a common goal: accelerating the transition toward a more autonomous, intelligent, and sustainable mine.

A collaborative approach

The Alliance pillar relies on a rigorous method of collaborative innovation, encouraging the convergence of expertise from industrial, scientific, and technological fields:

• Fundamental knowledge: mining engineering, metallurgy, geology, environment, etc.

• Innovative knowledge: artificial intelligence, data science, automation, geometallurgy, etc.

This transdisciplinary integration allows major industry challenges to be addressed head-on, whether in process optimization, sustainable asset valorization, or energy transition.

A structuring portfolio for mining innovation

The Alliance pillar encompasses several flagship missions and programs that showcase MISA Group’s ability to catalyze innovation while addressing the industry’s strategic priorities:

• Autonomous Mine Mission: accelerating the integration of digital technologies into autonomous operations.

• Robotics Mission: developing and testing robotic solutions adapted to mining operations.

• Best Practices for a Control Room: a concerted approach to establishing operational standards for intelligent centralized management.

• Decarbonization Mission: a pan-Canadian collaborative roadmap toward a carbon-neutral industry by 2050.

• Consortium of Mine Builders: an innovative partnership model designed to showcase Québec’s mining expertise internationally.

A clear mission: accelerating innovation in service of the industry

The Alliance pillar supports industrial research aligned with the industry’s priorities. It creates the conditions to transform strategic visions into tangible results, while ensuring coherence between the major missions led by MISA Group and the industrial research projects carried out with its partners.

By bringing together the strengths of science, technology, and mining know-how, MISA Group is helping lay the foundation for the industry’s future vision — one that is high-performing, sustainable, and intelligent.