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Design around the operator
Remote presence should preserve context, authority, and the ability to intervene.
Company / Operating thesis
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A mineral company designed for machines from day one.
Harnec is early. The thesis is simple: mining equipment should be designed for remote control and coordinated robotic work from the start.
Company thesis / 01
Pre-operationalTechnology should shape the operation from the start.
Harnec intends to operate mines and develop the industrial machines used in them. Robotics and operating discipline have to develop together.
Harnec is pre-operational. This site sets out an intended model, not a finished operation. The first technical and operating decisions are still ahead.
Working principles / Intended
How Harnec will test the thesis.
These principles are the tests for what gets built, adapted, or left alone.
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Treat machines as a fleet
Hardware, controls, sensing, and records should share an operating model.
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Make system state clear
Operators should know what a machine is doing, why it is doing it, and who has control.
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Expand trust deliberately
Automation should grow through bounded tasks, evidence, and a known fallback.
Open questions / Next decisions
What has to be decided.
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Which task first?
Find a narrow job where remote control has a clear purpose.
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What gets built?
Decide what needs a new machine and what can be adapted.
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What must be visible?
Give an operator the context to understand and interrupt the work.
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When is autonomy earned?
Set the evidence required before a bounded task runs on its own.
Next / Operating model
The next step is to make the thesis specific.
The technology page breaks the model into four parts: remote control, fleet design, coordination, and bounded autonomy.