Published: 9 October 2025
At Wenco International Mining Systems, we are committed to continuously improving our solutions to meet the evolving needs of the mining industry. As part of this commitment, we are excited to announce our journey towards transforming our flagship product, Wencomine FMS, to a cloud-native architecture. This transition promises to bring numerous benefits, including enhanced efficiency, scalability, and security. However, we also want to set the right expectations: this transformation will take time and will be implemented in stages.
What is Cloud-Native Architecture?
Cloud-native architecture represents a modern approach to designing and building applications that emphasizes scalability, resilience, and maintainability. At Wenco, we're embracing these principles to develop solutions that can be deployed either in cloud environments or on-premises, offering mining companies valuable flexibility in their digital transformation journey. This architectural approach creates loosely coupled systems that are highly manageable, observable, and adaptable to changing operational needs.
Our adoption of cloud-native architecture means we're developing solutions that perform consistently and reliably across modern, dynamic environments, whether deployed in the cloud or within your on-premises data centres. This architectural foundation ensures that your mining operations can choose the deployment model that best suits your current needs while maintaining a clear path for future cloud adoption. By building on these principles, we're creating systems that not only meet today's operational demands but are also ready to evolve alongside your business.
Why Cloud-Native?
Cloud-native applications offer several advantages that are particularly beneficial for the mining industry:
- Scalability and Flexibility: Cloud-native applications can easily scale up or down based on the needs of the mining operation. This flexibility allows companies to efficiently manage resources and adapt to changing demands without significant upfront investments.
- Cost Efficiency: By leveraging cloud infrastructure, mining companies can reduce costs associated with maintaining and upgrading on-premises hardware. This shift to the cloud helps in optimizing operational expenses and capital expenditures.
- Increased Reliability and Uptime: Cloud providers offer high availability and disaster recovery solutions, ensuring that mining operations can continue with minimal disruption. This reliability is essential for maintaining continuous operations in remote locations. Many of the resilient capabilities can also be implemented in on-premise deployments, allowing organizations to achieve similar benefits within their own infrastructure.
- Modularity and Maintainability: Cloud-native applications are built as collections of independent services, making them easier to update, maintain, and evolve over time. This approach reduces system downtime during updates and allows mining companies to adopt new features and capabilities with minimal operational disruption.
- Deployment Flexibility: Whether deployed on-premises or in the cloud, cloud-native applications maintain consistent functionality and performance. This flexibility allows mining operations to choose their preferred deployment model based on their specific requirements, regulatory environment, and digital transformation timeline.
- Enhanced Security: Cloud providers invest heavily in security measures to protect data and applications. This includes encryption, access controls, and regular security updates, which can be challenging for remote mining companies to implement on their own.
Flexible Deployment Options
We understand that every mining operation has unique requirements and constraints when it comes to system deployment. That's why our cloud-native solutions are designed to support both on-premises and cloud deployment models. This flexible approach allows mining companies to:
- Deploy on-premises today while maintaining a clear path to future cloud adoption
- Leverage cloud-native architectural benefits regardless of deployment choice
- Maintain operational sovereignty and data residency compliance
- Scale applications effectively within existing infrastructure
- Transition to cloud deployment at their own pace, when business needs align
Our First Step: Stockpile Manager
We are proud to share that our first cloud-native product, Stockpile Manager, has already been delivered. Stockpile Manager revolutionizes how you manage stockpile inventories, providing accurate, high-resolution data that enhances planning, operations, and processing. By integrating seamlessly with Wencomine FMS, Stockpile Manager ensures that you have the precise information needed to make informed decisions, reduce variability, and improve plant feed consistency.
Key Features of Stockpile Manager:
- Detailed Data Capture and Enhanced Precision: Stockpile Manager consolidates dig and dump events to a block model, offering a granular view of your stockpiles. This high-resolution data allows for better visualization and understanding of material attributes as the stockpile evolves.
- Effortless Integration and Rapid Deployment: Built on Wenco’s new architecture, Stockpile Manager integrates effortlessly with Wencomine FMS. This bi-directional integration means that stockpile model data is continuously updated and fed back into Wencomine FMS, enhancing blending decisions and production accuracy. Designed for quick deployment, Stockpile Manager ensures minimal disruption to your operations.
- Optimized Operations: Stockpile Manager allows you to manage your stockpile inventories with the same granularity of information available for the in-situ ore blocks, ensuring that you have the accurate, reliable data needed to optimize your operations and drive efficiency.
Looking Ahead
As we continue our journey towards a fully cloud-native Wencomine FMS, we are committed to delivering these benefits in stages, ensuring a smooth transition for our customers. Our goal is to provide unmatched efficiency, reliability, and security, helping you unlock the full potential of your mining operations.
Stay tuned for more updates as we roll out additional cloud-native solutions designed to enhance your operational capabilities and drive success in the mining industry.
Published: 9 October 2025
Last Updated: 9 October 2025