【非洲科技·非洲】 查尔·马拉伊斯：AI如何让非洲采矿业更安全

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Market Intel Dashboard\n\n在Electra Mining Africa 2026展会上，Charl Marais描绘了非洲矿业的愿景：这不是科幻小说中的机器人，也不是空无一人的静寂矿坑。通过将孤立的机械、控制系统和人工智能平台连接成一个智能网络，ABB正在帮助运营商在数百公里外的控制室里指挥危险的地下作业。在本期Coffee With...栏目中，PHATHISANI MOYO与Marais坐在一起，剖析为什么人类的专业知识——而不是自动驾驶机器——才是核心。\n\n在本周于约翰内斯堡举办的非洲最大矿业技术博览会之一Electra Mining Africa 2026上，各种展现矿业未来面貌的机器层出不穷。\n\n这里有电动汽车、控制系统、数字显示屏以及各种工业技术，它们让矿山不再只是一堆人员、机器和传送带的组合，而更像是一台巨大的计算机。\n\n但当我与Charl Marais共饮咖啡时，这位正协助全球电气化与自动化巨头旗下的ABB南非公司将这一愿景推向非洲矿业的人，却迅速将话题从机器上移开了。\n\n对于这位ABB过程工业自动化部门本地业务线经理来说，话题回到了工程学本身。\n\nMarais曾在前兰德非洲大学（现约翰内斯堡大学）学习电气工程，职业生涯始于设计电动机。在加入ABB的高功率整流器业务之前，他在工业设备的基础领域工作多年。

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At Electra Mining Africa 2026, Charl Marais laid out a vision for the continent’s mines that isn’t about sci-fi robots or silent pits emptied of human workers. By connecting isolated machinery, control systems, and AI platforms into a single intelligent network, ABB is helping operators run hazardous underground operations from control rooms hundreds of kilometres away. In this edition of Coffee With…, PHATHISANI MOYO sits down with Marais to unpack why human expertise—not autonomous machines—wi

At Electra Mining Africa 2026, one of the continent’s biggest mining technology expos, held in Johannesburg this week, there was no shortage of machines offering a glimpse of what the future of mining could look like. 

There were electric vehicles, control systems, digital displays and the kind of industrial technology that can make a mine feel less like a collection of people, machines and conveyor belts and more like one enormous computer.

But when I sat down for coffee with Charl Marais, the man helping ABB South Africa, a division of the global electrification and automation giant, push that vision into the continent’s mining industry, the conversation quickly moved away from machines.

It went back to engineering for the ABB Local Business Line Manager, Automation, Process Industries division.

Marais studied electrical engineering at the former Rand Afrikaans University, now the University of Johannesburg, and began his career designing electric motors. He spent years working with the fundamentals of industrial equipment before joining ABB in its high-power rectifier business.

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