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EcoStruxure for Mining, Minerals and Metals Processing & Plant Refining

Our process control, optimization and operator training solutions ensure you’re getting the most from your resources.

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Overview

Mining, minerals and metals process operations are becoming more complex. The decline of mineral grades, strict regulations, and today’s economic landscape require mining, minerals and metals companies to optimize their operations, processes and use fewer consumables (from energy to reagents) to become more cost-effective. The global mining, minerals and metals industries need new, intelligent, and easy-to-use optimization and process control tools. Our process control solutions provide simple and seamless integration of mining, minerals and metals processing automation. They help align business objectives with requirements across operations and the entire plant.

Process automation and control

Automation in the processing and refining of minerals is highly complex. Managing multiple processes and machines requires a multitude of controllers and field devices in a highly distributed configuration.

Solutions and benefits

Our integrated control system for mining, minerals, and metals processing automation delivers flexibility for engineering, operations, and maintenance besides seamless integration and transparency between operations in simple environment. 

Our scalable process automation systems integrate power and control to meet production, operational, and quality objectives.

  • Advanced Ethernet distributed architectures able to manage complex instrumentation networks and motor-driven applications
  • A single environment for plant design, operation, and maintenance
  • Process and object-oriented; the application follows the actual layout of the mine
  • Dedicated object library for mining, minerals and metals operations
  • Simplify and standardize to reduce engineering costs
  • Enhance plant operation and visibility
  • Easy to maintain, modify, improve and expand

EcoStruxure Process Expert harnesses the power of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) to bring your plant into the future. It is a single automation system to engineer, operate, and maintain your entire infrastructure for a sustainable, productive, and market-agile plant.

See how ArcelorMittal’s Dunkirk factory ensures more consistent quality with the Modicon M580 PAC from Schneider Electric.

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Mining, Minerals and Metals process optimization

The decline of ore grades, increasingly complex mineralogy, and the need for water and energy conservation require greater efficiency from metal and mineral processing plants and operators.

Advanced Process Control stabilizes and optimizes critical production processes and ensures consistent, high-quality output and reduced energy consumption.

Solutions and benefits

Process optimization uses real-time process and economic data to determine setpoints that ensure maximum operating profit while satisfying all regulatory requirements, delivering sustainable plant performance, and increasing return on investment. It moves the process closer to its active constraints reducing the process variability in specific metals and minerals processes such as kiln cooler or mill optimization.

  • Stabilize and increase product quality, reduce variability
  • Maximize production rate and equipment utilization
  • Reduce energy, water, and chemical consumption
  • Get real-time visibility of plant and business operations
  • Capture, aggregate, and transform data into manageable, insightful information
  • Obtain faster and more stable grade changes
  • Support operator decision-making

Our Cement Production Optimization Solution helps cement producers monitor, control, and identify process inefficiencies and, thereby, improve plant and energy efficiency. Watch the solution in action at the Quzhai Cement plant in China, with customer feedback on its value to their business.

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Dynamic simulation for engineering and operator training

AVEVA Dynamic Simulation is a comprehensive, dynamic process simulator that enables users to meet and beat the dynamic challenges of designing, commissioning, controlling, and operating a modern process plant safely, reliably, and profitably.

Solutions and benefits

Dynamic Simulation is a comprehensive computer-based process simulator that enables users to meet the challenges of designing and operating a modern process plant safely and profitably. By assisting in process design, controls checkout and control system design, Dynamic Simulation improves yield and reduces capital investment and the operator training simulator ensures safer operations while improving performance and productivity.

  • Validate your process design and save engineering and commissioning time 
  • Verify control systems before going on-line and avoid costly mistakes 
  • Train operators in a life-like plant environment 
  • Facilitate knowledge transfer

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Virtual reality immersive training systems

Interactive VR training environment for operators and field personnel.

Solutions and benefits

The virtual reality immersive Operator Training System (OTS) provides a high-fidelity virtual reality environment that mimics the actual plant, providing a realistic learning environment in which to train personnel.

Use it for procedural training, operator familiarization, safety response training, knowledge capture, or maintenance planning and improve the overall operations and safety of your plant.

  • Supports knowledge capture and transfer of best practices 
  • Increases operator and field personnel efficiency 
  • Reduces costly avoidable mistakes 
  • Helps prevent unnecessary maintenance and repairs

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How can mining, minerals, and metals companies optimize their processing and refining activities to become more cost-effective and energy-efficient?

Schneider Electric helps the global mining, minerals, and metals processing and refining industries accelerate digital transformation by providing new, intelligent, cost-effective, easy-to-use optimization and advanced process control solutions that reduce environmental risk and improve profitability.

As an industrial technology leader with our IIoT expertise, we can help bring innovation to each level of your highly complex mining, minerals, and metals processing and refining operations through connected products, edge control, and analytics and services.

Our scalable process automation systems integrate power and control to ensure consistent, high-quality output and reduced energy consumption objectives.

EcoStruxure Process Expert, our IIoT-enabled single automation system, helps deliver innovation to the multiple processes and machines in the processing and refining plants of the future sustainably and productively.

Our process control solutions provide simple and seamless integration of mining, minerals, and metals processing automation besides delivering flexibility for engineering, operations, and maintenance.

For cement producers looking for plant and energy efficiency, our Cement Production Optimization Solution helps achieve consistent, high-quality output and decreased energy consumption.

Process optimization in specific metals and minerals processes uses real-time visibility and economic data to ensure maximum operating profit while satisfying all regulatory requirements, delivering sustainable plant performance, and increasing return on investment.

Dynamic Simulation, a comprehensive computer-based process simulator, assists in process design, controls checkout, and control system design.

Operator Training System trains operators and field personnel in an interactive virtual reality immersive environment and facilitates knowledge transfer.

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