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    Can AI help solve industry’s worker shortages?

    Aug. 21, 2025
    Honeywell’s Derain Pillay discusses how advanced technologies are recreating the roles of human workers in the metals, minerals and mining industry

    By their very nature, the metals, minerals and mining industries have often set the standard for jobs that are at once remote, dirty and dangerous, and as such are facing a particularly acute shortage of workers as Baby Boomers retire. But new cutting-edge technologies such as AI are poised to change that outlook, according to Derain Pillay, global vertical lead for the MM&M markets with Honeywell Process Solutions.

    Control’s Keith Larson caught up with Derain at the company’s recent Honeywell Users Group meeting in San Antonio to discuss how technology is reshaping how work gets done in this essential global industry.

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