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Digital integrated operations for sustainable Mining, Minerals and Metals
EcoStruxure™ for Mining, Minerals and Metals can help ensure your social license to operate, maximize stakeholders' return and community progress, and build a sustainable, efficient, and responsible mining, minerals, and metals business through digitally integrated power and process.Together with our strategic partner, AVEVA, EcoStruxure for Mining, Minerals and Metals creates integrated digital environments and redefines energy journey to maximize operational excellence and energy efficiency, optimize production and value chain performance throughout the entire project lifecycle.
EcoStruxure for Mining
Digitally integrated mining value chain is possible today. EcoStruxure software for Mining builds collaborative digital environments integrating process automation and analytics, electrification and microgrids.
Read the e-guideEcoStruxure for Metals
Green steel or green aluminum are closer than you think. EcoStruxure solutions for Metals increase sustainability hand in hand with productivity gains and value chain agility through digital acceleration.
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EcoStruxure for Glass
Decarbonized and quality glass is closer today. EcoStruxure for Glass integrates power and process for profitable and greener glass business.
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EcoStruxure for Cement
Efficient and sustainable cement with digital integration and electrification. EcoStruxure for Cement leverages software, automation, and energy management.
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Meet stakeholders' expectations mastering the transition to sustainable mining, minerals and metals through a step-by-step sustainability strategy: from electrification and renewables to integrated operations and process optimization.
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Gartner* Magic Quadrant for Manufacturing Execution Systems
AVEVA was named a leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES). Our industrial software solutions help to achieve superior performance by driving value, agility, and sustainability throughout resources industries’ supply chain.
See our solutionsRanked #2 in the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 for 2022
Schneider Electric is proud to host #1 position in Gartner´s 2022 Supply Chain award for Process or Technology Innovation and #2 position in Supply Chain Top 25 for 2022. Our adaptive ML-driven “self-healing” supply chain saves 100+ million EUR by optimizing performance-related parameters.
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Schneider Electric was recognized for its market-leading Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities for sustainability and smart buildings advancements, especially in energy management, reporting, predictive maintenance, and retail portfolio management.
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Schneider Electric was named a leader in the Guidehouse Insights Leaderboard: Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) Marketplace Solution Providers. Our NEO Network and Zeigo platforms simplify the cleantech buying process by connecting members to trusted experts and exclusive market intelligence to enable and accelerate transaction decisions.
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International distribution center (IDC) recognizes Schneider Electric as a leader in Worldwide Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems.
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ArcelorMittal Belval
ArcelorMittal sustainably modernized the electrical network at its Belval facility with EcoStruxure for metals in the steel manufacturing industry.
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Centralized operations, consolidated value chain, and increased situational awareness among three individual mine shafts improved data quality and in-shift reporting to a sustained 90%.
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By focusing on buying energy smarter and using it efficiently, the company has saved millions, freeing up resources to deliver leading-edge, sustainable solutions.
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Green mining - Pathways to sustainability in mineral processing
Learn how Electricity 4.0 with digitization helps in developing comprehensive energy strategies and long-term decarbonization roadmaps.
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Green Steel - Power distribution system and related challenges in electric arc furnaces
Learn more about the challenges of the move from fossil fuel-based to electrical energy-based steel production in new power-based furnaces.
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Green Cement - Key strategies to reduce carbon emissions in cement manufacturing
Learn how the future of the cement industry relies on embracing decarbonization, energy transition, new technology adoption, and digitalization to be resilient, profitable, and sustainable.
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Green steel - Is Energy-as-a-Service right for you?
Download the paper to learn more about the Energy-as-a-Service strategies to reduce emissions in carbon-intensive industries.
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Learn how you can take active steps forward in shaping a greener future.
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1. How can mining be made more sustainable?
Mining operations need to be conducted in a responsible and environmentally sustainable way for reducing their impact on the environment. To achieve this, mining solutions inclusive of digitization, mining industry software solutions, mining IoT solutions, and much more need to be worked out.
2. What is mine digitization?
Mine digitization refers to the use of digital or computerized systems or devices, mining industry software solutions, and digitized data for reducing costs of improving business productivity and transforming mining practices. The benefits of mine digitization include:
a) Creating smart mines and minimizing operational costs
b) Monitoring operational assets efficiently
c) Leveraging mining industry software solutions
d) Effective water management
e) Automation of operations or incorporating mining IoT solutions
f) Keeping the workforce safe
g) Ensuring data security
h) Monitoring operational assets
3. How digital innovation can improve mining productivity?
Digital innovation and IoT-enabled mining solutions can significantly improve mining productivity. Schneider Electric offers best-in-class mining solutions, metals solutions, minerals solutions, and cement solutions based on EcoStruxture, a new generation of process automation systems. EcoStruxure for mining solutions is our IoT-enabled architecture that is designed to leverage digital transformation. It includes apps, analytics, services, edge control with IoT networks, and connected products.
Similarly, EcoStruxture for the metal industry is a robust architecture to leverage digital transformation in the metals industry and is inclusive of software for metals, connected products, and much more. Our unmatched portfolio of mining software and hardware, interoperability of mining and metal solutions, metals industry software, accessibility to data via the cloud or on-premises makes our mining solutions unique and robust.
Such IoT-enabled mining solutions can significantly improve mining productivity as they leverage:
a) Data, computational power, and connectivity
With mine digitization, embedding a multitude of sensors in the physical objects, using mining industry software or architecture, and churning out a huge volume of data for analyzing and facilitating communication among machines has become increasingly accessible. In addition, smart grids also report power usage.
b) Mining IoT Solutions: Analytics and intelligence
From advancements in analytics to machine learning, better techniques for integrating data help turn datasets into insights about future events’ profitability.