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MINING
Digital solutions for the mining industry
Ammar Wahab, global sales director of Mining, Minerals and Metals at AVEVA, presented an online webinar on how AVEVA can help mining and metal companies optimise business performance by embracing digitalisation. Robert Daniels reports.
IN A GROUP STUDY conducted last year, Wahab began, 73% of enterprises failed to provide any business value from their digital transformation and yet studies from companies such as PwC and Deloitte have repeatedly concluded that the potential economic impact enabled by digital technologies by 2025 is estimated to be around US$370bn per year. AVEVA have provided the opportunity for a range of companies across the mining and metal industry to seize this value by maximising production, increasing asset reliability and improving workforce safety by guiding them along the path to digitalisation.
AVEVA’s goal is to uniquely integrate engineering operations and asset management enabling endtoend digital transformation. They cover the entire asset and operations life cycle from engineering and design through to providing real time visualisation of production. To do this, as Wahab explained, the company focuses on four key business benefits:
Engineering
Enabling a data centric approach, with the creation of a digital twin, and fostering collaboration, AVEVA’s engineering solutions support owner operators to manage their capital investment lowering the total installed cost (by a potential 10%), reducing time and risk on project execution (from FEED to commissioning) and setting the foundations for effective operations. AVEVA can provide 1D, 2D and 3D designs seamlessly handed over to the owner operator through web and centralised access.
AVEVA Solutions can guide any mining company along the path to digitalisation.
Operations
Through an endtoend solution AVEVA can help to integrate all the different components of the value chain both horizontally and vertically, improve visibility through the removal of data silos and improve overall performance. The creation of an optimised and dynamic plan will help customers understand their bottom line, adjust it as needs be and provide the ability to react to an unexpected downtime to replan, reschedule and reshift to get as close to the target state as possible.
Performance
AVEVA offers to develop a riskbased maintenance strategy to optimise the performance of all critical and noncritical assets. As an example, AVEVA deployed its predictative maintenance technology to a few sites ownded by the largest cemement producer in South America. At just the PoC phase, in its first month, the customer was able to achieve savings of US1mn a month and has now implemented this as standard across all of their operations.
Visualisation
Combining these three elements is the Unified Operations Centre, unifying IT, OT and IoT data systems into a single unified interface to provide endtoend visibility. In the centre, situation awareness is provided by the digital twin (connected to all edge and physical devices) while all functions are relayed and displayed giving a full 360° insight across the entire business.
As Wahab concluded, it does not matter how far along the digitalisation journey a company is, AVEVA is ready to speak to them, produce a plan to move them forward and help them realise the benefits digitalisation can bring. ■
