Mining, Minerals and Metals | IS³ | AVEVA Select Partner

Mining Solutions

Modern, safe choices for mining operation and information management.

Mining is especially sensitive to fluctuations in the global economy

To stay ahead in this complex, competitive industry, owners and operators need to be extremely adaptable – and instantly responsive – to changing market conditions.

South Africa is internationally renowned for its wealth of mineral resources, as well as its expertise in mineral extraction. But there is more to being a roleplayer in this complex industry than reputation. Mining is one of the most competitive industries on earth. It relies on human labour as much as it does on technological advancements and expertise.

Fixed resource prices on the open market mean the only way to increase turnover is to increase mining volumes. It also means the only way to increase profitability is to
reduce costs in the face of ever-increasing energy and raw material costs.

In these times, the way to create shareholder value is through efficient mining practices, improved product quality and the ability to show employees that their demands are being considered in the face of these global realities. Doing so might mitigate industrial action and grow the spirit of competition required to restore this industry to its previous standard of excellence.

Digital Mining Transformation – It Starts With You

In a volatile market, it is essential to ensure that your mining operations perform as efficiently as possible.

To succeed, you require a strategy spanning your global portfolio – across the entire asset lifecycle. In other words, managing your assets safely and securely, maximising production while increasing profitability.

Digital technology can help you to unite, analyse and manage your engineering data, processes and supply chain in the most efficient, intelligent manner. It can also empower you to operate with the utmost levels of corporate social responsibility.

Proven Results, Delivered

Discover our comprehensive industrial software platform, which spans the entire operational lifecycle. Do away with silos, integrate your data, enhance collaboration and increase efficiency to maximise return on capital throughout your global portfolio, at every stage of the asset lifecycle. Find out how we can empower you to transform your mining organisation.

Value Chain Optimisation

Gain valuable insights and benefit from visibility across the entire value chain, in a unified environment – from planning to scheduling to inventory.

Asset Performance Management

Master the tools that can predict potential equipment failures. Digitalise your procedures and maintenance activities.

Production Optimisation

Transform data into insights with process optimisation, delay accounting and downtime analysis.

Next-Generation Workforce

Gain foresight into potential equipment failures. Digitalise your procedures and maintenance activities.

Challenges Facing the Mining, Metals and Minerals Industry

Health and Safety

Intelligent Information

Mining operations require access to accurate, real-time information, available anywhere, at all times, throughout the operation. It is crucial that this information is available 100% of the time, regardless of power outages, server malfunctions or network failure.

AVEVA System Platform
InTouch Access Anywhere
SmartGlance
Intelligence
Historian

Event Resolution

Whether it’s a production stoppage or a safety emergency, the relevant personnel must know, without any hesitation, what action to take during a time of crisis. This makes human workflow mapping and management mandatory.

Skelta BPM Workflow

Process Optimisation

At some point, “doing it the way it has always been done” may no longer be an effective option. For example, the redesigning of beneficiation processes may be a challenge – but at least one large South African company has done so – and saved hundreds of millions as a result.

Historian
Intelligence
MES/Performance

Improved Capital Plant ROI, Reduced Maintenance Costs

Mining machinery, such as refrigeration plants, conveyors, trucks, diggers, etc., is extremely expensive, and it is crucial for its lifespan to be extended as long as possible. This is possible – through the rigorous, real-time monitoring of downtime and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). Effective maintenance that is based on reality, rather than the calendar, also contributes to the extension of mining machinery equipment’s lifespan.

PRiSM
Mobile Operator Rounds
MES/Operations

Reduced Energy Costs

Simply “keeping an eye on the meter” is no longer sufficient in combatting increasing energy costs. Effective mine energy management requires the tracking of energy usage to batches and even shifts. This needs to be carried out on a time basis, in order to reduce energy usage during peak times, but without impacting production.

Corporate Energy Management

Reduced Downtime

Reductions in downtime are achieved through the real-time and historical trending of plant items, as well as the precise matching of production with demand.

MES/Performance
PRiSM

Reduced Industrial Process Control and Industrial IT Engineering Costs

The mining industry is under pressure, having to perform under increasingly tight budgetary constraints, but having to do so with fewer and fewer engineers. The proven answer to dealing with this scenario in an ever-changing world is the design, implementation, enforcement and maintenance of standards.

Standards cut engineering costs dramatically, while also lowering the cost of ownership for the automation system as a whole.

AVEVA System Platform
Intelligence
Historian

Preserving Past Assets and Investments

Most mines have a collection of disparate automation systems, which have evolved with the enterprise over time. Although these systems are valuable assets, the engineering time and effort invested in their proper operation is of even greater value. Required in such instances, is a system designed with this exact scenario in mind – one that can make all these systems work together.

AVEVA System Platform
Historian
Device Integration Server
InTouch