Benjamin Miller

About Benjamin Miller

Decades of heavy industry experience across global operations spanning construction, mining, industrial manufacturing, and agricultural systems. Over the past decade, I\'ve specialized in autonomous operations deployment, working hands-on with companies transitioning from manual to automated systems in challenging operational environments worldwide.This extensive field experience revealed a consistent market gap: companies developing autonomous systems excel at the technology but struggle with the systematic operational safety management and efficiency optimization required for production deployment. Traditional approaches push most safety functions to expensive SIL 3/4 levels, creating cost barriers that limit adoption while missing opportunities for operational efficiency gains through intelligent automation frameworks.Mule.bot addresses this challenge directly. Through systematic operational safety management, we enable companies to achieve functional safety certification while optimizing operational efficiency by implementing comprehensive operational controls - training protocols, access management, procedural safeguards, and infrastructure design - that systematically reduce Safety Integrity Level requirements to manageable QM levels while maximizing automation benefits.Our approach works across construction equipment, industrial vehicles, agricultural machinery, and landscaping systems. By implementing proven operational methodologies rather than expensive redundant hardware, we often enable internal validation processes for SIL2 and lower systems, avoiding costly certification requirements while delivering measurable productivity improvements through streamlined autonomous operations.

Experience

1. North American Advisor

   AMPS - Your Partner in Technical Services

   Jan 2024 — Present · Denver Tech Center, CO, US

Education

• Colorado School of Mines

  Master of Science (MSc), Systems Engineering

• Colorado School of Mines

  Master of Science (MSc.), Mining and Mineral Engineering

• Colorado School of Mines

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mining Engineering

  2016 — 2020

• Carleton College

  Bachelor of Arts (BA), Physics

Skills

• Evaporates
• Aggregates
• Calcium Carbonate
• Mining
• Team Leadership
• Mergers
• Rock Dust
• Contract Negotiation
• Placer Mining
• Silver
• Zero-Waste Mining
• Classification
• Oil & Gas
• Negotiation
• Gold
• Industrial Minerals
• Theory of Constraints
• Project Planning
• Life-of-Mine Planning
• Lean Production
• Dry Milling
• Budgets
• Jigs
• Permitting & Compliance
• Due Diligence
• Change Management
• Crushing and Screening
• In-Pit Crush and Convey
• Strategic Planning
• System Optimization
• Dso Blending
• Employee Empowerment
• Milling
• Business Strategy
• Financial Modeling
• Truckless Mining
• Surface Miners
• Control System Design
• Project Management
• Open Pit