Kevin Urbanski. Photo: Emanuel St-Pierre

Early in his career, Kevin Urbanski was on the team at Matrikon (now part of Honeywell) that built one of the first systems to gather sensor data from mobile mining equipment. Years later, working at Teck Resources, Urbanski was in the position to use that data to assess equipment health—and hit a major challenge. With hundreds of sensors on each piece of a fleet’s equipment, there was almost too much information, making finding actionable insights “like a needle in a haystack.”