Symx.ai spent years unlocking mining data. Now it’s building “an operating system” for heavy industry

Sudbury, Ontario’s Symx.ai got its start nearly two decades ago as a technology startup called Symboticware that aimed to solve data communication challenges in the mining industry. The company spent nearly 13 years building specialized hardware to pull, standardize, and transmit data from underground trucks at mines and establishing itself with mining clients, creating a small-but-successful business funded by its own revenue and government grants. “A lot of companies talk about industrial AI.