
EcoStruxure solutions for Mining, Minerals and Metals
Use our software, automation, and energy management solutions to build sustainable mining, minerals, and metals business that is responsible, efficient, and profitable through an integrated digital environment.

How to transition to sustainable mining, minerals and metals?
Download the IDC Technology Spotlight and see why and how to embrace cleaner and decarbonized practices.

World’s first sustainable lithium mining power solution
We've partnered with Wärtsilä to create an uninterrupted power system that enables sustainable and remote lithium mining in areas without grid access.
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.
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.

EcoStruxure for Metals
Green steel or green aluminum are closer than you think. EcoStruxure solutions for Metals increases sustainability hand in hand with productivity gains and value chain agility through digital acceleration.

EcoStruxure for Minerals
Efficient and sustainable glass and cement with digital integration. EcoStruxure solutions for Minerals integrates power and process for profitable and green glass, cement and construction materials businesses.
Discover our EcoStruxure solutions for Mining, Minerals and Metals
Decarbonize and make the best use of precious resources
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.
Read the Saint Gobain story

Energy efficiency and control
Improve energy efficiency by optimizing usage and identifying and eliminating losses.
Production efficiency and control
Optimize process and production for yield efficiency and best use of resources.
Power availability, reliability, and quality
Target zero power incidents and guarantee business continuity with reliable end-to-end power distribution and automation.
Energy and Sustainability Services
Increase corporate sustainability and transparency with a holistic strategy, from audit and consulting to implementation.
Integrated operations management
Maximize operations across the value chain to make the most of resources, delivering more by using less.
Microgrids and renewables
Decarbonize, reduce energy cost and benefit from energy opportunities.
Green glass opens in new Window
Meet environmental quality and profitability targets with scalable grid-to-glass solutions.
Safety and security
Maintain the highest level of safety and security of people and assets with integrated solutions.
Green steel opens in new Window
Decarbonize through electrification and digitalization.
Maximize asset performance
Transform your mining, minerals or metals production to reduce cost/ton, and get closer to nameplate level through flexible and scalable integrated operations management.
Watch how Black Rock achieved double-digit growth.
Integrated asset performance
Minimize production losses with integrated asset performance.
Production management
Maximize nameplate capacity by visualizing and analyzing production and business KPIs in real-time with production optimization solutions.
Process optimization and automation
Improve operations efficiency and reduce process variability by optimizing power and process engineering and design with simulation.
Integrated workforce
Decrease costs by minimizing maintenance OpEx with an integrated and mobile workforce.
Power and process integration
Mitigate info silos for improved decision-making by unifying key power and process across the value chain.
AVEVA Unified Operations Center opens in new Window
Integrate and visualize operations, process, engineering, maintenance, and financial data.
Build an agile value chain
Increase flexibility and predictability to boost productivity and competitiveness through integrated mining, minerals and metals value chain visibility, automation, and electrification.
Learn how Baosteel boosted logistic efficiency

Material handling and warehouse management
Reduce transfers, damages, and debottleneck your value chain with automated material handling and warehouse management solutions.
Unified supply chain opens in new Window
Optimize visibility into the end-to-end value chain with unified planning and scheduling solution.
Integrated operations management
Improve decision-making by integrating key power and process across the value chain through integrated operations.
Empower your workforce and manage change
Retain knowledge and eliminate information silos for better decisions in real-time, with 360Âş learning programs, immersive training, and secure real-time collaboration.
Watch how Tenaris enabled instant machinery diagnosis.
Immersive training opens in new Window
Get your new and former teams up to speed on the latest trends and improve safety with immersive virtual training.
Augmented reality
Make faster and better-informed decisions with instant hands-off augmented reality digital diagnostics and maintenance.
Integrated workforce
Equip field workers with paperless, updated, and valid technical and process instant information.
AVEVA Unified Operations Center opens in new Window
Mitigate info silos for improved decision-making with a collaborative environment that integrates key power and process across the value chain — from scheduling to maintenance.
Corporate digital training program
Lower training cost and gain quick access to training modules, especially during production stoppage.
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Sustainable industries of the future
Driving sustainability at the source in Mining, Minerals and Metals.

Integrated Operations Management
Integrated digital operations drive profit, efficiency and sustainability across mining through the holistic insight of operations, from design to maintenance.
Awards and recognitions

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.

Ranked #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.

Verdantix Green Quadrant Leader: IoT Platforms for Smart Buildings 2022
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.

PPA Marketplace Solution Providers
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.

IDC Worldwide Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems
International distribution center (IDC) recognizes Schneider Electric as a leader in Worldwide Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems.
Explore our customer stories for Mining, Minerals and Metals

ArcelorMittal Beval
ArcelorMittal sustainably modernized the electrical network at its Beval facility with EcoStruxure for metals in the steel manufacturing industry.

Black Rock in South Africa
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%.

Saint-Gobain in France
By focusing on buying energy smarter and using it efficiently, the company has saved millions, freeing up resources to deliver leading-edge, sustainable solutions.
Explore the latest insights on IoT in Mining, Minerals and Metals
Move to sustainable Mining, Minerals and Metals with the Industries of the Future
Check how the Industries of the Future will enable you to contribute to the progress and meet demands using fewer raw materials and precious resources.
Integrated Operations Center demo
Gain a full holistic visibility into your control, operations and maintenance activity, for enhanced and agile decision-making. Integrated operation delivers simplicity and unleashes powerful collaboration potential.
EcoStruxure for Mining
EcoStruxure for Mining enables digitally integrated mining value chain.
EcoStruxure for Metals
EcoStruxure for Metals builds collaborative digital environments integrating process automation and analytics, electrification and microgrids to ensure social license to operate.
Digitally integrated steel
Integrated Autonomous Cranes automate and integrate crane operations into the supply chain and ERP software so steel producers can gain up to 30% improvement in productivity and maintenance cost reduction.
Make the energy supply transition with microgrids
With Schneider Electric’s microgrid solution, you can digitize the energy infrastructure connecting plant control and demand management.
Take a virtual tour of e-House
Digitally connected, pre-fabricated, and optimized power distribution is one of today's ways to achieve energy savings, from design to commissioning.
Maximize business resiliency with service partnerships
From energy and sustainability consulting to optimizing the lifecycle of your operations with field and digital services, you can minimize downtime, improve safety and maximize efficiency in operations.

Optimize for today. Build for tomorrow
Maintaining capital discipline in resources industries is key to play an integral role in the economic recovery to come. Integrated operations can minimize the overall cost per ton.

Remote management for business continuity
We find ourselves in a new work environment, with constraints on physical presence in the workplace. Learn how to capitalize on new technologies to remotely manage your operation.

Stay a step ahead of electrical hazards
Practicing electrical safety is a key priority. While you work to maintain vital energy infrastructure in Mining, Minerals, and Metals an arc flash incident can be devastating.

Integrated operations management strategy in Mining, Minerals and Metals

Practical applications of digitization in Mining, Minerals and Metals

Schneider Electric suggestions on Mining, Minerals and Metals

Industrial plant sustainability

Sustainable steel production is closer than you think

Digitization, the prescription for healthier steel production

Digitization and sustainability: how Mining, Minerals and Metals can benefit?

Predictive analytics in Mining, Minerals and Metals

2019 Global Digital Transformation Benefits Report
This report features 230 customers and details 12 ways how digital transformation of energy management and automation drives benefits in CapEx, OpEx, and beyond.

Cybersecurity strategy for the digital economy
According to E&Y 2019 Global Information Security Survey, 54% of mining and metals companies experienced a significant cybersecurity threat last year. Learn how you can protect your business.

Strategies for one planet prosperity
Companies that prepare themselves for a one-planet compatible economy are better primed to build and maintain their competitive advantage.

Our actions towards a sustainable future
Our promise to future generations: we will be part of the solution, taking urgent actions now to co-create a brighter future for everyone, everywhere.

World’s first sustainable lithium mining power solution
This white paper develops a recommended power system design for high altitude lithium mine.

Power distribution design for cost reduction
This paper develops a recommended power system design for mid-size iron ore mines.

Network architecture for optimized mining power system
This white paper describes the best practice in network architectures for an optimized mining power system.

IEC or ANSI switchgears?
MV switchgear for mining power system applications- IEC vs ANSI.

Guardian Glass
A leading glass manufacturer, Guardian Glass, uses EcoStruxure to ensure reliable performance.

CNBM
China National Building Material improved its energy and operational efficiencies using EcoStruxure with AVEVA software.

Novelis
Novelis realizes untapped energy cost savings of $1.9 million with EcoStruxure Power Monitoring Expert.