ASSET HEALTH MONITORING AND PREDICTIVE ASSET
RELIABLITY

Asset Intelligence for Mining

Asset Health

• Early failure detection of critical components of an asset
• Remaining Useful Life (RUL) estimates
• Recommendations on how to address and take action

Asset Performance

• Apply out of the box asset performance calculations
• Receive alerts and notifications triggered on KPI thresholds
• KPI trend extrapolation

Condition Monitoring and Sensing

• Integrated condition monitoring system for critical loads
• Condition monitoring sensors
• Edge-based machine learning supervisory application that uses data from existing plant devices to monitor asset behavior, detect and identify anomalies, and notify customers of predicted equipment failures

MINE AUTOMATION

Validated architectures and dedicated functionalities for underground mining applications

• Ventilation control and optimization
• Compressed air systems - multi compressor management and surge control
• Safe and reliable hoisting control
• Crusher control
• Material handling automation
• Dewatering control
• Network systems
  • Unified backbone across the mine sub-systems
  • Reliable communications from the under-ground operations to the above-ground systems

Energy Management

Energy visibility at every level

• Aggregate and contextualize energy data from disparate sources
• Monitor analyze and compare energy performance in real-time across the enterprise
  • Energy consumption, demand, and energy intensity
  • Energy cost allocation
  • Emissions tracking
• Reporting
• Notification management

ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION

Intelligent Packaged Power

The Intelligent Packaged Power offering helps reduce risk by delivering motor control devices, and all elements of the electrical distribution system, in one package. Digitally integrate all these devices, regardless of which manufacturer supplied the device. This can provide plant personnel with total access to all the information in the substation:

• Better load management and energy management
• Real-time monitoring of electrical and process systems from anywhere
• One network, visualization, archiving and reporting platform
• Access to synchronized, time-stamped data from a single source
• Faster and easier system modification and expansion

INTEGRATED REMOTE MONITORING AND OPERATIONS

Data and operations integration

• Aggregates, cleans and contextualizes disparate data sets, real-time and historical, directly or indirectly related to physical assets, in a single unified location
• Integrates planning chain from mine to market (mine, process, transport)
• Integrates environmental, energy and water
• Unified maintenance and asset management activities
• Integrates / centralizes control rooms (monitoring, control and operations)
• Centralized video surveillance

Cybersecurity

• A proactive approach to industrial cybersecurity
  • Identifies risks to OT networks, systems, apps, data and services
  • Helps protect infrastructure
  • Detects threats before they cause disruption and downtime
  • Responds to incidents and quickly contain impacts
  • Recovers quickly and increase cyber resilience

Water Management

Water metrics and balances

• Water inflows and outflows associated with the site, including water withdrawal, discharge, and consumption
• Key water flows and dynamics internal to the site, including operational water reuse/recycle, operational water use and change in storage

Real-time water quality monitoring systems

• Remote real time water quality monitoring systems specializing in drinking water, surface water, ground water, industrial water and wastewater

DIGITAL WORKFORCE

Knowledge capture and management

• Experts can capture step-by-step procedures and best practices as they work
• Transforms those insights into reusable process documents, job aids and training materials
• Delivery of augmented 3D work instructions to frontline workers to optimize inspections for quality, safety and field maintenance use cases

Workforce collaboration and assistance

• Interactive, digital elements in a live, real-world environment
• Remote assistance powered by augmented reality (AR)
• Advanced AR collaboration tools with real-time video communications
• Connects a field technician with an expert so that they can both see and discuss the situation at hand

MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES MANAGEMENT

Digital solution to plan, track, and optimize maintenance activities

• Cloud-based, AI-powered computerized maintenance management system (CMMS). It helps mining companies manage all their maintenance, including thousands of assets, work orders, and parts, in one place, with just a few clicks.
  • Simple and easy to use
  • Cloud-based
  • Collect, analyze, and act on maintenance data
  • Create, complete, and record work orders
  • Keep track of the parts and supplies needed for maintenance

INTEGRATED PROCESS CONTROL

Distributed Control System for chemical processes

• Powerful project design capabilities
• High availability systems
• System emulation
• Native process capabilities
• Powerful device integration (process safety, instruments, power)
• I/O built for process
• Operator awareness and effectiveness
  • Multi-lingual support, multiple user modes
  • Integrated reporting tools
  • Trends
  • Effective alarm management
  • Powerful virtualization tools
• Integrated analytics
• Cyber secure

Process optimization and analytics

• It reduces the variability of processes which not only improves throughput, quality and reduces chemicals / consumables usage, but leads to a reduction in waste material generated from the process.

INTEGRATED PROCESS CONTROL

Distributed Control System for chemical processes

• Powerful project design capabilities
• High availability systems
• System emulation
• Native process capabilities
• Powerful device integration (process safety, instruments, power)
• I/O built for process
• Operator awareness and effectiveness
  • Multi-lingual support, multiple user modes
  • Integrated reporting tools
  • Trends
  • Effective alarm management
  • Powerful virtualization tools
• Integrated analytics
• Cyber secure

Process optimization and analytics

• It reduces the variability of processes which not only improves throughput, quality and reduces chemicals / consumables usage, but leads to a reduction in waste material generated from the process.

MINE TO MARKET OPTIMIZATION

Mine Operations Management platform

• Scalable, fit-for-purpose applications specifically designed for mining
• Leverages existing site infrastructure (ERP, Historian, LIMS, FMS…) to provide a single source of truth, and models that deliver data in the context of the value-chain
• Multiple architectural options to suit on-premise, centralized, cloud-hosted, or hybrid as best suits each site's infrastructure constraints
• Add applications at your own pace and easily expand to address additional requirements
  • Production & Performance Reporting
  • Asset Utilization / OEE
  • Downtime / Loss Accounting
  • Inventory Management and Storage Balances
  • Metal Reporting
  • Statistical Process Control (SPC)
  • Short Interval Control

SCALABLE CONTROL SYSTEM

Modular control system for DLE (Direct Lithium Extraction) systems from design to enhancements

• Design: Digital tools that enable designers to improve their collaboration and productivity with a more simplified and streamlined way to work. The result is faster time to market and systems that cost less to build and maintain
• Build and Integrate: Faster commissioning and advanced skid integration capabilities minimize disruptions to the critical path of the project timeline. Technology features in the control system enable global teams to quickly troubleshoot issues in the commissioning phases and remain flexible to adopt late-binding changes
• Sustain: Easier to maintain, operate, and modernize by reducing the total cost of ownership and simplified modernization path
• Improve: Drive improvement into the enterprise with the ability to expand and enhance with diagnostic capabilities, open access, and analytics and optimization tools

MINE-WIDE AUTOMATION AND CONTROL

Unified process, power and devices from pit to process

• A common platform to seamlessly integrate mine areas (processes, material handling equipment, and utilities)
• Unify process and power systems to create one operating environment and information database
• Connectivity from sensors to business functions (OT/IT) with open standard technologies
• Validated architectures and dedicated functionalities for mining applications
• Analytics capabilities with dashboards to quickly monitor process metrics

Process optimization and analytics

• It reduces the variability of mineral processes which not only improves throughput, quality, and reduces chemicals / consumables (water/energy) usage, but leads to a reduction in waste material generated from the process
• Proven solutions for:
  • Crushers
  • Grinding Circuits
  • Flotation
  • Material Handling
  • Furnaces

Smart Pumping

Pump control

• Operates all the pumps at their most efficient speeds to meet the demand while saving on energy consumption.
• Remotely monitor and control pumping stations with real-time monitoring and an automatic alert system.

Reliable operations

• Built-in motor protection features help to ensure the pumps and the motors have a longer life cycle while advanced predictive diagnostics protect the system against downtime due to damage from motor winding, motor bearings, motor shaft or even pump cavitation.