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GE Predix-based applications connect mining and minerals processing assets – collecting and analysing data and delivering real-time insights Bringing it for optimising infrastructure and operations

water and emissions. Real-time data capture will all together allow the company to be even more transparent with, and accountable to, its local partners. And the use of digital technology will enhance The terms Big Data and Internet of Things do mean mine Barrick’s permitting activities, further increasing wide and complex solutions but at a smaller scale they transparency to stakeholders. Together, these also incorporate the smallest sensors and instruments, innovations will enable Barrick to deliver better, faster and safer mining. Here is just one metric: reports Paul Moore Barrick expects to reduce its production costs from approximately $800 an ounce of gold to n a recent interview with Canada’s The Globe business. Over the course of the partnership, less than $700 on a sustainable basis – a and Mail , John Chambers, Executive Barrick and Cisco will bring digital capabilities quantum improvement that would be IChairman of Cisco and John Thornton, to Barrick’s entire organisation, from its mines unmatched in the gold-mining industry. More Executive Chairman of Barrick Gold gave their around the world to Barrick’s head office in broadly, the partnership could serve as a model take on how far behind mining is in terms of Toronto. For instance, advanced sensing for digital transformation across Canada’s digitalisation and how they are working to technology and real-time operational data will business community, which has the potential to address this in partnership: “Canada was built improve decision making. Equipment will be grow the economy and create jobs.” on its mining heritage. Today, the industry automated for increased productivity and Over the course of the collaboration, Barrick contributes about C$54 billion a year to worker safety. Predictive algorithms will and Cisco will focus on research and Canada’s gross domestic product – a driving enhance the precision and speed of development, and jointly use their networks and force of the national economy. Yet mining lags maintenance and metallurgy. And real-time data expertise to drive Barrick’s digital reinvention. In behind other industries in one critical aspect: will provide greater transparency to local the first step of the collaboration, Barrick and digital innovation. That shortcoming partners, from indigenous communities to Cisco will work together to develop a flagship significantly threatens the industry’s ability to governments. Digital technologies will enable digital operation at the Cortez mine in Nevada – meet future demands and survive in the digital Barrick’s leaders to make decisions with greater “embedding digital technology in every age. By 2020, 75% of businesses will be a speed, precision and productivity, and will better dimension of the mine to deliver better, faster, digital business or preparing to become one. equip them to assess and mitigate risk. For and safer mining. The goal at Cortez is to Companies that fail to embrace this trend will example, real-time data, analytics and predictive redefine best-in-class mining.” not survive.” tools will allow company leaders to work They continued: “Mining needs to reinvent together across the organisation. An enterprise- GE’s Digital Mine itself. The only way companies will cut costs and wide analytics hub will enable performance At MINExpo 2016, GE Mining, a division of GE increase efficiency will be to embed digital management and financial and operational Transportation, unveiled the Digital Mine, technologies in every dimension of how mines benchmarking. And new digital tools will described as “a suite of technologies that can are operated and managed. This transformation improve scenario planning and portfolio improve performance, reliability, safety and will require technology companies and the management.” operations. Each mine is a mini-city, requiring mining industry to partner together in new The statement concluded: “Finally, digital power, water and transportation. Intelligent, ways. We are already seeing such partnerships technology will improve Barrick’s environmental real-time monitoring across the mine, allows take root. Last week, Cisco and Barrick Gold and safety performance. Predictive data and operators to make data-driven decisions that teamed up for the digital reinvention of Barrick’s analytics will improve management of energy, improve equipment reliability and optimise mine

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operations – yielding up to a potential $5 billion annually in savings.” Powered by GE’s Predix™, which the company says is the world’s only open, cloud-based operating platform built exclusively for industry, the Digital Mine “delivers interconnected technology needed to achieve breakthrough levels of efficiency and maximum performance. It combines machine sensors, connectivity, data capture, visualisation and analytics to support management of an asset’s lifecycle.” “Mining, as an industry, faces strong headwinds and must drive productivity and improve operational savings. Digital Mine, through advanced sensor technology and analytics, seizes the industry’s untapped data to help make a difference,” said Scott Phillips, Vice around 80% of the total cost of ownership for a Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, has launched ‘Perfect Order’, an President and CEO of GE Mining. “As we’re doing cement plant or running a mining operation, and industry solution experience for natural successfully for the rail industry, we’re using our energy is the single largest component. An resources that helps mining companies improve Industrial Internet mindset to actively monitor ongoing monitoring of processes makes it supply chain efficiency and profitability and diagnose equipment and operations to possible to increase productivity significantly.” improve assets, maximise efforts, boost fuel industries,” said Marni Rabassó, Vice President efficiency and lower costs.” Seeking a Perfect Order Natural Resources Industry, Dassault Systèmes. GE’s suite of condition-monitoring capabilities Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE “Dassault Systèmes offers a diverse set of collects information such as vibration data, Company and leader in 3D design software, 3D solutions to the mining industry that stems from temperature and pressure to inform mine Digital Mock Up and Product Lifecycle decades of technological expertise. With operators of machine health, and also detects Management (PLM) solutions, has announced ‘Perfect Order,’ mining companies will uncover impending failures before they occur. “Data the launch of ‘Perfect Order,’ an industry hidden value in increased efficiency of the collected from disparate systems enables the solution experience for natural resources that supply chain, which also improves the linking of insights across machines and helps mining companies improve supply chain customers’ delivery experience.” processes, which can lead to better predictivity efficiency and profitability. ‘Perfect Order’ offers Specifically, the ‘Perfect Order’ industry and decreased likelihood of accidents – all while digital end-to-end supply chain management solution experience provides a single source of increasing productivity.” capabilities for more visibility, control and truth that connects all planning decisions, from GE Mining says its digital solutions have the predictability across operations. mine to port; improved shipment forecasting potential to help customers reduce equipment “As mining companies strive to deliver and logistics planning integrating market failures, deliver up to 5% improvement in commodity shipments to customers that are on demand forecasts, availability of commodities at mineral recovery, and increase optimisation. For time and meet quality specifications, an efficient minesites, and the capacity of transport example, a leading gold mining customer and cost-effective supply chain is critical. networks as well as predictive intelligence that maximised mineral recovery by 1.5%, which is However, lower commodity prices, more variable leverages historical data and causal factors such equivalent to nearly $1 million a year. A demand, and lower grade deposits are as price and GDP; and real-time key platinum mine customer increased smelter increasing supply chain complexity, making it performance indicators on the impact of throughput by 10% while improving recovery. harder for mining companies to meet customer planning decisions that allow for rapid In a further development, FLSmidth, the contract requirements.” adjustments to be made to keep deliveries, global supplier of equipment and services to the Based on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and specifications and budget on track. It also has global minerals and cement industries, and GE, leveraging Quintiq supply chain planning and the ability to match supply and demand to have joined forces to create digital solutions for optimisation capabilities, Dassault Systèmes’ resource capacity, “maximising fulfillment of increasing productivity. The new solutions ‘Perfect Order’ industry solution experience contracts and resulting in fewer penalties and developed on GE’s cloud-based Predix platform “offers mining companies a holistic view of an improved customer experience.” “will leverage FLSmidth’s expertise in cement what’s occurring throughout the supply chain, and minerals processing and GE’s Industrial from infrastructure constraints and bottlenecks, Trimble rolls out its Connected Mine Internet of Things (IIoT) capabilities to maximise to labour shortages or the financial impact of an Trimble has released its Trimble ® Connected the potential of connected equipment units, operational change. In a digital environment, Mine™ Visual Intelligence module with support helping the cement and mining industry to companies can plan across supply chain for mixed-reality technology including Microsoft increase productivity.” functions to ensure they meet forecast demand, HoloLens to provide visual collaboration of mine FLSmidth will build its solutions on top of visualise all activities in their supply networks spatial data. “Trimble Connected Mine is an GE’s Predix platform with applications for and optimise the flow of goods, resulting in integrated and complete view of mine data to managing process flows thereby allowing greater predictability for their business.” improve and accelerate operational and customers to leverage process data and “Mining companies are looking to experience strategic decision making. Visual Intelligence is analytics for monitoring, benchmarking their the digital transformation that has brought an optional module that enables the 3D performance and predicting maintenance of operational stability, enterprise agility and visualisation of Trimble Connected Mine data. their equipment. “Operating costs account for improved business performance to other With a proven track record of enterprise-level

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implementations in some of the largest mines worldwide, Trimble is transforming the way mines work by combining mining expertise, spatial technology, business analytics, visualisation and decision support tools to enable mining companies to fully optimise their resources for safe, productive and profitable mining. The portfolio includes mine information systems, planning and productivity applications, intelligent devices and technology infrastructure.” Trimble Connected Mine provides a live web environment for data to be collected and presented in easy-to-read tables, graphs, dashboards and spatial views. It enables a wide range of administrative and operations data to be connected and consolidated across language, currency, commodity, unit of measure, time zone and location, which can be viewed from a single Connected Mine offers a platform that Grupo México is also a long-time user of software solution. aggregates geospatial data and production data. Hexagon Mining’s MineSight Planning Suite. Toquepala’s engineers use MineSight Economic “With Trimble Connected Mine Visual The immersive 3D environment adds visual Planner to determine economic pit limits, Intelligence, management teams can be more context to the operational data and allows incremental pit shells, and plan preliminary confident in making key decisions by using a stakeholders to view operations in safety from pushback creation validated set of inputs and unique visualisation remote operations centres and offsite locations. that allow both strategic and detailed scenario HoloLens extends interaction with 3D models Enrique Sanchez, explained the company’s planning. Visualisation quickly reveals outliers, beyond the confines of a 2D computer screen, recipe for managing big data. “We are constantly with options to review historical data quickly.” creating new ways for the many stakeholders of working to improve, integrate, and optimise our “Using Trimble Connected Mine Visual complex, multi phase construction and mining processes for mining operations, utilising key Intelligence with Microsoft HoloLens provides an projects to visualise, collaborate, share ideas and technologies,” said Sanchez. “For many years interface to our data that has massive potential,” manage change. we have relied on Hexagon Mining’s Jigsaw said Johan Smet, General Manager of Trimble system for fleet management with much Mining. “It enables mining professionals to Mastering big data satisfaction.” improve collaboration and communication by Hexagon Mining believes that mastering big data “Grupo México has invested over $2 million in visualising and interacting with high-definition is the key to a successful digital mine. “Tough modernising our processes and our operations holograms of the mine.” economic times mean companies no longer seek and teams. For example, in the past we would “This powerful but practical technology partial solutions to make their mines safer and transfer materials to the crusher via train or delivers immediate value to mine management more productive. Now the foundation for success trucks but today we leverage a system of and confirms Trimble’s commitment to provide is one digitally integrated solution that conveyor systems and tunnels, of more than 2 km innovative measurement, reporting and decision harmonises data from surveying, monitoring, in distance, which sends materials directly to the support solutions for the industry,” said Smet. planning, operations, and safety.” crusher in this case. The purchase of equipment “Trimble’s broad technology portfolio delivers Nowhere is this digital future more apparent and technologies leveraging Jigsaw systems has revolutionary analytical tools to mining than at Grupo México’s Toquepala mine, high in been especially important in Toquepala, where in management teams and tailors those tools to the the Peruvian Andes. Grupo México has partnered the past few months we have installed Jigsaw type and size of their operations.” with Hexagon Mining to make sense of big data systems with much success.” Using Microsoft HoloLens and Trimble and set new standards for integration and Grupo México is also a long-time user of technology, mine management can clearly optimisation. Hexagon Mining’s MineSight Planning Suite. visualise large spatial datasets to rapidly identify Toquepala is the fifth-largest copper mine in Toquepala’s engineers use MineSight Economic exceptions without the need to visit the site, the world, measuring 2.5 km across and Planner to determine economic pit limits, improving safety and reducing the need to travel. descending more than 700 m into the earth. In incremental pit shells, and plan preliminary Trimble Connected Mine includes a range of 2015, the mine won approval for a $1.2 billion pushback creation. They use MineSight Schedule reports including material, product, delay, budget expansion of the pit, which will double the mine’s Optimizer for short-term, mid-term, and long- tracking and KPI dashboards that can be processing capacity. “Grupo Mexico foresaw term planning. personalised for a fast deployment and are tough economic times and decided to integrate “MineSight systems help us optimise our flexible to align with most mine workflows. “Now, Toquepala’s operations and planning production for maximum gains that correspond to the CEO, COO, mine manager, business technologies,” said Hexagon Mining President, the overall value of the mine. Hexagon Mining’s improvement manager and metallurgist can share Hélio Samora. “By unifying systems and state-of-the-art technology is critical to our the dataset to examine and solve issues from a cultivating these synergies, Grupo Mexico knew it strategy. The idea is to have a single system for single data source.” would be better positioned to weather the monitoring and standardisation of the automatic For remote operating centres, Trimble downturn and selected Hexagon as a partner in cycles, as well as the dynamic systems for Connected Mine offers an immersive environment this alignment strategy.” increased optimisation of production. Hexagon’s to understand workflow and site issues. Trimble Grupo México Senior Technical Adviser, integrated mining solutions allow us to greatly

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improve our efficiency by shortening the gap sense of the data they’ve collected, and how do this technique to monitor exhaust port between planning and execution.” they know that their analyses are correct? How temperatures, and was able to quickly observe Sanchez said the company is now pursuing do they then turn the collected data into an issue with a cylinder; further diagnosis Hexagon’s safety technologies for further information, and then into action?” revealed that the cylinder had a failed injector. As integration. “We are in a constant search for When analysed and applied effectively, the a result of this early detection, the mine avoided optimisation and key technologies,” said vast amounts of data collected from hardware, a possible engine failure and associated repair Sanchez. “Upon installation of the Jigsaw system software, and other equipment systems can costs, which are often upwards of $350,000.” for our communications, we have also worked significantly impact a mine’s productivity and Maintenance systems with trend analysis, with Hexagon to add mobility and to be able to asset health by increasing uptime, maximising threshold limit detection, and real-time event transmit HD-quality video with 100% guarantee. equipment and personnel utilisation, and management capabilities help maintenance We currently offer seven applications on the reducing overall maintenance costs. In order to personnel make sense of collected data, same platform such as radar control, pump accomplish these gains, mines must utilise an translating it into concise insights about the systems, video systems, etc. All of this is intelligent maintenance management system specific equipment faults (and potential causes) integrated in a single platform, thanks to modern capable of handling massive data collection and occurring across their mine. Typical maintenance technology by Hexagon Mining. We are very translating that data into actionable information. organisations can perform in excess of 60% of happy with these systems.” Davidson states: “Modular Mining Systems’ maintenance in an unscheduled manner, and Sanchez added that the company is also MineCare ® 3 Maintenance Management solution, unscheduled downtime can often be much impressed by the IDS Interferometric Mine Slope released last year, is the latest evolution of our costlier than scheduled downtime. “By Radar, a revolutionary remote sensing monitoring asset health solution and does just that. As a leveraging the data from the MineCare system, system offered by Hexagon Mining. “With one cloud-based solution, it is designed to monitor, an Australian coal mine was able to identify radar, we could achieve 360° coverage for store and manage large amounts of equipment numerous defects and work towards reducing or monitoring the profile of the mine within one health data; an integral piece to the big eliminating the defects that were most plan,” said Sanchez. “Aside from the 360° view, data/asset management entanglement. detrimental to their operations. This resulted in a the system is portable so we do not need to Speaking specifically to maintenance 150% improvement in MTBF (Mean Time Between install electricity or additional construction for management in mining environments, cloud Failure) in the first year. An increase in MTBF the equipment.” computing enables the combination of powerful translates directly into a decrease in unscheduled Hexagon concludes: “Industry-wide, data analytics software and dynamic resource downtime.” operational staff and managers are increasingly process scaling. But rather than just accumulate Increasing the visibility of operational data, being overwhelmed with huge volumes of data and regurgitate ‘all data, all the time’, cloud and making it more accessible and from multiple sources, much of it in real time. As computing goes a step further to present big understandable for mine personnel across the data is collected, and distributed to various data not as an unintelligible collection of board, empowers maintenance professionals to systems at the mine, it is replicated and metrics, but rather as streamlined insights into make the right decisions about how to best massaged before countless hours are then spent the asset health of a site or organisation’s entire maintain their equipment. The increased reconciling and rationalising this information. fleet.” awareness of in-pit conditions and equipment Hexagon Mining’s partnership with Grupo México Cloud-based maintenance management performance criteria also facilitates crucial addresses this issue and embodies a smarter solutions can offer an intelligent alternative to adjustments in a timely manner, going beyond way to mine. By integrating design, planning, and information overload by providing maintenance equipment maintenance to also maximise operations technologies, Toquepala can connect personnel with relevant, real-time data. The equipment and labour utilisation. For example, people and processes, make sense of big data, MineCare 3 solution, for example, uses since cloud-based maintenance systems and rely on one version of the truth.” state ‐of ‐the ‐art data collection algorithms to constantly and continuously monitor equipment, capture the right amount of data required for a units no longer have to be brought online for Managing Big Data with cloud-based particular organisation. The solution’s inspections and troubleshooting. Additionally, maintenance capabilities provide real ‐time, conditional, and cloud-based systems provide technicians with all Recent strides in information technology have aggregate data monitoring, alone or in the insights and information they need, so resulted in increasingly complex hardware and combination, depending on current data analysis they’re better prepared with the necessary tools software for the mining industry. In addition, the needs. Raw, real ‐time machine ‐specific data can and parts to quickly resolve the problem without on-board computer systems on today’s trucks, be collected continuously, or as frequently as making multiple trips into the field. shovels and other heavy equipment units now desired, and adjusted to suit the rate of change “Cloud computing also improves the scalability generate massive amounts of information about of the parameter over time. “This avoids of data collection, allowing mining organisations the machines they monitor. Eric Davidson, Vice collecting non ‐value ‐adding data that may of any size to collect pertinent information about President, Business Development, at Modular ultimately affect network bandwidth, system their fleets across one minesite or many, and Mining Systems, Inc told IM: When factored performance, and storage capacity. For example, make vital maintenance decisions based on that across an enterprise-level fleet, the amount of instead of collecting engine exhaust port information. Large mining enterprises can data is even more staggering. As more mining temperature differential data continuously at a monitor many fleets across many sites, from one organisations turn to big data and predictive high frequency, users can set the data sampling central location. Small mines and quarries, which analytics to better understand their mobile rate based on behaviour; once the temperature typically have a very small number of units to equipment health, they face many new differential hits a conditional threshold the monitor, gain significant value with a standalone challenges in managing the vast amounts of system samples at a higher rate to provide more maintenance system that requires only limited collected data and the infrastructure required to insights into the failure mode and severity network communication; these systems, maintain it. How, for example, does a mine know without bogging down the system with including MineCare 3, eliminate the need for if it’s collecting the right data? How do they make extraneous data. One Modular customer used costly onsite server infrastructure, which then

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also eliminates capital expenditure investments.” Network outages can pose an additional challenge for data management in mines; gaps in data collection as a result of these outages can threaten data integrity and further confuse analysis. The Store&Forward feature, part of the MineCare solution, ensures that data integrity is maintained in the event of a network outage.

Huawei FusionCloud for one-stop service At the recent HUAWEI CONNECT 2016 event, Huawei and Accenture underscored the momentum of their existing alliance agreement and expanded on their future goals. The two companies jointly provide verified enterprise SAP and Oracle cloud solutions which are based on Huawei FusionCloud solution for global Huawei installed Australia's largest private 4G communications network for Santos' coal seam gas enterprise customers' core applications to operations, while in China it helped coal giant Shenhua raise the capacity of its Shuohuang railway with a customised eLTE solution. The wireless broadband system guarantees the communication provide one-stop service. between the master and slave locomotives located at both ends of trains, which could be up to 2,500 “As companies continue to manage ever more m apart. The eLTE network also enhances operational and maintenance efficiency with trunking complex business environments, organisations dispatching, remote data acquisition, wireless video surveillance, data transmission and other services. It is the world's first LTE network for heavy-haul railways. It will allow them to continue to are increasingly recognising the enormous expand transfer capacity from 200 Mt to over 350 Mt of coal per year benefits of cloud and cloud-based solutions. Cloud computing has become a key contributor Huawei and Accenture strategic alliance solutions chosen partner; and the discovered technical to agility and market competitiveness for these will optimise clients IT workload, reduce cost and issues have been solved through close organisations.” leverage competitive advantages.” cooperation between the Agnico Eagle and Two years ago the companies formed a “The development of cloud computing brings a Endress+Hauser teams. Its Memosens and strategic alliance in order to address clients’ historic opportunity to us. We have always been Liquiline platforms are used as a solution for the cloud requirements and provide better cloud on the road to create excellent value for our challenges concerning pH measurements. “The solutions. The alliance leverages Huawei’s clients by open cooperation, joint innovation and Liquiline digital transmitters and the Memosens extensive experience in ICT infrastructure, and customer-orientation.” said Matt Ma, President of sensors are the perfect set-up for demanding Accenture’s capabilities in consulting, systems Data Centre Solution Dept, Huawei IT Product liquid analysis. The Memosens sensors perform integration and outsourcing. Over the past two Line. reliable measurements even in extreme years, experts from Huawei and Accenture have conditions and in demanding applications. The worked side by side to develop enterprise cloud Making sense of sensor data non-contact digital signal between the sensor solutions to help clients reduce large capital The ore at the Kittilä mine in Finland goes and the transmitter is very reliable and is not investment in IT and meet flexible and scalable through a treatment process of grinding, disturbed by any external factors, such as system requirements. flotation, pressure oxidation and treatment in moisture. Calibration can already be performed The companies state that successful carbon in-leach circuits. The primary chemical outside of harsh field conditions. Furthermore, cooperation between Huawei and Accenture is used in the separation process is cyanide, which the devices facilitate preventive maintenance. getting wide recognition from clients and the due to its highly toxic nature places strict Correct calibration is the basis for reliable global market. Huawei and Accenture joint reliability and accuracy demands on pH measurements and analysis. Thanks to the solutions have been applied to organisations measurements. An inaccurate or incorrect Memosens technology calibration is easier than from a variety of industries including resources, reading could result in a potentially hazardous ever before, and no longer needs to be carried where the joint team helped a large state-owned situation. At the very least such an occurrence out in difficult and hazardous field conditions.” enterprise define its data centre strategy, and rewould result in difficulties, delays and higher A complement is the calibration diagnostics design its cloud-based data centre architecture. costs. and lab measurement software MemobasePlus. It In 2016, the Huawei and Accenture strategic Agnico Eagle was not fully satisfied with the allows for a connection between a computer and alliance leveraged solution centres in Shenzhen, functionality and reliability of its existing the Memosens sensor via USB port, giving the Milan and Manila, where clients can develop instruments at the time. Inaccuracies in pH user virtually instantaneous access to the sensor solutions for specific requirements and better measurements resulted in diminished safety and condition and diagnostics information. For grab understand the end-to-end business benefits process efficiency. Also, the calibration of sample measurements, Agnico Eagle decided to delivered through a cloud strategy. instruments was taking up a considerable use Liquiline To Go. The handheld option allows Huawei and Accenture “will continue to focus amount of time and resources. the client to use the same sensor types for grab on helping enterprise clients accelerate their Therefore, the company wanted to significantly sample measurement as in the process. This digital transformation through cloud-based boost process control with measurements and at eliminates deviations resulting from the use of solutions. The alliance works to drive Community the same time improve the maintenance of the different sensor technologies. The cleaning of Clouds, IO Cost Take Out, and SAP/Oracle measurement devices. Agnico Eagle carried out devices positioned outdoors was difficult, time solutions on an enterprise cloud platform. With an extensive year-long field trial with various consuming and inconvenient, especially during utmost sensitivity to data privacy and security, manufacturers. Endress+Hauser finished as the the -20°C t0 40°C winter months. The automatic

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true collision avoidance system. We’ve taken the road vehicle safety system developed by Hitachi and custom fitted it for the challenges of mining. Sensors with peer-to-peer technology gather live data from the mine. Then, our system processes it through logic based on guidelines from the Earth Moving Equipment Safety Round Table. In split-seconds, Fleet Awareness V2X knows the likelihood of a collision and it sounds an alarm to keep operators safe — but without false positives, only when necessary.”

Real time data Cummins Inc revealed its newest offering – Data Enabled Mining Solution – at MINExpo 2016. This prognostic capability allows Cummins to monitor Endress+Hauser's Memosens and Liquiline platforms are used at Agnico Eagle Kittila as a solution engines and deliver accurate, real-time operating for the challenges concerning pH measurements information, enabling a quicker and more focused response to potential issues. The cleaning feature of instruments provided Agnico embedded instruments provide vital information solution ultimately allows miners to optimise Eagle measurable improvements in terms of both about the operation, condition and health of profitability by lowering total cost of ownership. efficiency and staff satisfaction. components.” “Cummins Data Enabled Mining Solution enables The time spent on calibrations and field customers to reduce costs by extending engine repairs was reduced from 2,200 to approximately Wenco unveils new intelligence suite life, preventing catastrophic failures and 240 labour hours per year. This means a Wenco Mining Systems, the Hitachi Construction decreasing unplanned maintenance expense.” reduction of 90%. The consumption of chemicals Machinery Group Company, launched System 6 at “Customised maintenance and operations such as the expensive sodium metabisulphite MINExpo 2016. The flagship Wencomine fleet solutions will also reduce costs by providing was reduced by up to 50% – because of the more management system has gotten a complete operational data visibility such as driver accurate pH measurements. The optimised overhaul. Its two main applications – Fleet behaviour and idle mapping. With real-time dosing saves money and increases process as Control and MineVision – have now merged into a analysis, customers can quickly address well as occupational safety. single, easy-to-use interface. “Dispatchers have operational matters which would otherwise have Studies have shown that companies that have even greater flexibility and control when a significant impact on productivity and invested in IIoT systems such as Flowrox’s assigning trucks, adjusting haul routes, or efficiency.” Malibu™, are performing in the top 25% tracking production. We’ve also rewritten the The Cummins Data Enabled Mining Solution compared to their peers. Malibu™ is intelligent code base to give the system faster and operates over cellular networks, and in the near 3D smartware that is designed to monitor high- smoother processing and to allow for more future, satellite communications systems. The value critical assets. Companies investing in IIoT enhancements down the line.” Along with this system is able to stream real-time, high- systems can gain as much as one full month of update, Wenco unveiled a number of new frequency data which, when coupled with production per year while benefiting from a solutions that it says “push Wenco into new support from the expertise in its solutions centre, significant reduction in energy consumption and frontiers of mining performance.” allows monitoring of the entire fleet, 24/7. maintenance costs. One of these is the Avoca Intelligence Suite Lori Cobb, Cummins Vice President – Flowrox Smart Solutions™ allow process which builds on the technology already Connected Solutions™ – said, “We are very conditions, equipment status and performance to engineered by Wenco, giving it new focus with excited by the new technological advances that be monitored on a handheld device. The heart of the power of business intelligence. Drawing on a Data Enabled Mining Solution offers our mining the Flowrox Smart Solutions is the Flowrox platform from BI leaders Tableau Software, Avoca customers. By reducing the time to intervene on Malibu platform, an operator-friendly user “offers mines unprecedented control for viewing fault notifications, equipment availability can be interface that connects plant performance and and exploring their data. Our custom-built data improved, and progressive damage can be equipment. All new Flowrox SMART Pumps and warehouse blends information from Wenco and avoided. Additionally, adaptive learning SMART Valves are IIoT enabled. SMART pumps & other systems used in mining. That lets Avoca approaches will be incorporated on an ongoing valves are delivered with the Flowrox Malibu user shine a light on relationships and trends long basis to improve the mine’s productivity.” interface. Malibu is easy to operate, enabling hidden from even the most data-savvy mines. access to all product-related information, While other BI systems have struggled to adapt Rajant’s new historical data tool documentation, online monitoring & preventive to mining, ours was built from the ground up Rajant, the pioneer of innovative mobile mesh maintenance tools. A SMART positioner delivers with industry knowledge. As a result, it handles technology for private wireless networks, detailed information on valve operations. the unique data challenges of mining with flair recently announced BC|Enterprise, “a powerful Flowrox says its SPVE is the first pinch valve in — especially plotting large volumes of tool that adds historical data analysis to Rajant’s the world capable of complex analytics and IIoT geospatial data.” management and monitoring functionality, giving ready. SMART pump sets are equipped with Another development is the next evolution of administrators strategic insights into their intelligent instrumentation, motor diagnostics its Fleet Awareness safety system — Fleet networks.” and controls for continuous measurement and Awareness V2X. “More than just another fleet BC|Enterprise augments BC|Commander, a extensive feedback. “SMART sleeves and other safety tool, Fleet Awareness V2X functions as a desktop application that provides a real-time

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networks. We’re able to optimise all aspects of version adds functionalities for advanced our Rajant networks as well as provide analogue loop control, further facilitating the performance metrics on individual nodes. The engineering processes and widening the scope of ability to select a single node, subset of nodes, visible information to improve the situation or an entire network gives us visibility above awareness for operators.” and beyond other Mesh NMS platforms, lets “This solution update focuses on improving us build bigger networks and helps us provide the operator’s ability to monitor, analyse and better solutions.” efficiently control safe production,” said Eduardo Providing a complete history of every Gallestey, Global Technology Manager at ABB. BreadCrumb on a network, BC|Enterprise also “The next generation of Minerals Library builds minimises overhead traffic and enables upon our long history of helping our customers administrators to get to the root of use the latest technology and tools to optimise problems. It monitors BreadCrumb radio- their operations. Leading global mining and Together, Rajant's new BC|Enterprise and specific functionality, including BreadCrumbs that cement companies have relied on this software BC|Commander ® offer a comprehensive monitoring and management solution for a comprise the Internet of Things (IoT). For IoT solution for more than 15 years as a key element Kinetic Mesh ® network devices that are clients of a Rajant mesh network, of their plant operation to reduce downtime and BC|Enterprise helps ensure backbone availability. maximise production performance.” view of a mesh network as well as other The tool, which replaces Rajant’s Remote With the new loop control connection (LCC), management functionality. Used for networks of Advanced Diagnostic System (RRADS), typically the Minerals Library applies the successful any size, the web-based tool monitors and resides on a locally hosted web server in lieu of concept of "intelligent objects talking to each graphs the individual performance and the cloud, meaning it is not necessary for data to other" to the world of loop control. The environmental attributes of mesh radio nodes leave the network for monitoring or analysis. consistent linking between objects enables and administratively designated groups of nodes Together, BC|Enterprise and BC|Commander engineers to design complex control concepts over various time periods. provide a complete mesh management and with a standardised structured approach. The “BC|Enterprise lets administrators know what monitoring solution. actual control strategy and dependencies the network has been doing over time, a strategic between objects are directly visualised on the perspective not available before,” said Marty Joy updates on Smart Solutions operator interface. Lamb, Vice President, Software Engineering at Integrated throughout the Joy Global booth at “LCC is available for all existing loop control Rajant. “These insights include the current state MINExpo 2016 was the company’s new JoySmart blocks as well as for the newly added loop of the RF environment as well as data for Solutions; “fully customisable service, technology control blocks for actuators, ratio, split-range individual nodes or groups of nodes, such as and equipment offerings designed to deliver value and adaptive PID (proportional integral those on trucks and shovels, loading docks, or to today’s mining operations. JoySmart Solutions derivative) control. These elements deliver specific drilling sites. The result is the ability to are integrations of Joy Global’s smart, connected powerful out of the box functionalities ready to identify and address potential issues before they products and systems, advanced analytics, and be used on a broad array of advanced control impact users, adding huge value to the network direct services customised to solve its customers’ challenges.” environment. For Rajant Kinetic Mesh partners, toughest challenges.” The interlock status viewer provides an BC|Enterprise strengthens their servicing Connected products deliver data to JoySmart improved user interface to support efficient fault- capabilities because the tool reduces the time experts, who partner with customers through Joy finding and displays more information like time needed to diagnose potential network issues.” Global’s direct service network. The analytics to trip to enable the transformation from reactive In addition, it addresses queries related to produced deliver necessary information on to proactive plant operation. The group step historical data like, “What transpired on the machine health and performance, providing viewer shows all steps of a group sequence in a mesh last March or 15 minutes ago?” Its default direction for the mine operation to help format easy to understand by operators. It raises dashboards, based on years of Rajant experience anticipate service needs and optimise machine awareness of potential changes in the process providing support services, graph the most performance to achieve or exceed their financial before starting a group sequence. The detailed useful data for network operators. and operating goals. status viewer for engineers and maintenance “Such data is crucial on large networks “Reducing or eliminating unplanned downtime teams provides an innovative view that shows a running many applications. For example, if users using predictive analytics and automated global, functional representation of the process, tell the administrator they see issues with a processes is essential to running a lean operation all in the same chart. The detailed status report video monitoring application, he or she can capable of adapting to today’s marketplace,” said of its assets and the abnormal situations are all examine graphs to determine activity. If the Joy Global President and CEO Ted Doheny. in the same chart. This helps provide information administrator sees more LAN traffic than “Employing advanced analytics and technology, needed for quick analysis and action to resolve expected, he or she can go back in time to smart connected machines and direct service issues. determine traffic spikes and root causes. Such support, JoySmart Solutions are tailored to each insights will drive solutions, such as adding customer’s specific challenges, to deliver the Moving up the data utilisation value network capacity or isolating a troublesome highest production, lowest cost per tonne and curve device or app.” zero harm.” While the Internet of Things and Big Data are “BC|Enterprise is an amazing add-on to our popular concepts and receiving a lot of industry Rajant toolset,” said Dustin Jurman, CEO of Rapid ABB updates 800xA Minerals Library attention, Dingo argues that most mining Systems, a full-service Internet and IT company. ABB, the power and automation technology companies aren’t equipped to handle the “It's extremely responsive and allows us to drill group, has released an updated version of its advanced data capture, analysis and decision- down deep into large scale Kinetic Mesh System 800xA Minerals Library. “The latest making that are required to capitalise on this Big

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for many mining operations. measures to ensure smooth and efficient On a recent trade mission to Latin America, operation of the machinery as well as safety of Dingo CEO, Paul Higgins, found that miners were personnel and property.” generating volumes of data, but were struggling The mine that invited Azima DLI to perform a to produce practical insights that improved demonstration analysis is an established maintenance decisions. Higgins believes the longwall mining facility. Coal processing and issue stems from technology systems that can't production carries an inherent risk, since coal handle the wide variety of data sources, along dust can be explosive, and processing facilities with technology providers’ lack of maintenance handle mountains of coal alongside a system of expertise. “If you’ve never worked in mining conveyors that transport the coal to transfer maintenance, it's difficult to know how to apply towers. Mechanical failure, whether under- or the technology in a practical way.” above-ground, could be catastrophic to The Trakka condition management system was production, as well as to human life and safety. designed by mining engineers for maintenance To combat the mine’s safety concerns, Azima DLI operations, and utilises all of a mine’s condition analysts were brought in to perform vibration data to improve decision-making. Plus, Dingo’s analysis on their machinery. Analysts normally system is supported by a team of Condition shy away from exploring complex machinery such Intelligence experts who have over 800 years of as gearboxes and conveyors during a first-day Dingo’s Field Inspection App brings inspection combined mining maintenance experience. demo, but the analyst recognised the crucial role data directly into Trakka for instant expert The maintenance manager of a large North of conveyors in this longwall mining facility and analysis American coal mine said the Trakka software decided to tackle them anyway. developed by Dingo had major cost advantages “Within a single day, Azima DLI analysts Data. “We have seen very few mining for the operation. “Trakka allows our team to run caught two severe faults that had not been organisations, including the biggest ones, with a highly effective condition-based maintenance previously detected. If these faults had been the systems and/or processes in place to program that helps our mine operate at the neglected any longer, they could have resulted in manage and extract the value from the lowest cost per hour. One of the key points is catastrophic fire and explosion, risking lives and mountains of data being generated.” According that Dingo and Trakka help us manage risk by harming production.” to a McKinsey report, see www.mckinsey.com/ continuously assessing the condition of each Azima DLI builds aggressive vibration analysis industries/metals-and-mining/our-insights/how- component. We use this information to ensure programs that target strategic points in digital-innovation-can-improve-mining- we hit availability targets and deliver our mine machinery systems. Analysts place measuring productivity most miners use less than 1% of the plan.” point fixed pads, junction boxes, and remote data collected from their equipment. “Yet, in this sensors on machines, depending on the same report, McKinsey highlights the incredible Advanced vibration analysis particulars of each machine. This ensures upside - an estimated $100 billion of economic Predictive maintenance vibration analysis offers consistent and repeatable vibration test results. impact in 2025 - of tapping into this latent data many benefits across multiple industries, After data is collected with a TRIO™ vibration to optimise equipment maintenance in these including mining operations. Quick and early analyser, it is transmitted to a cloud database areas alone: improve anticipation of failures; detection of problems and faults in complex where it is run through Azima DLI’s automated reduce unscheduled breakdowns; and extend machinery like conveyors is crucial to the smooth diagnostic system and reviewed by a live analyst. equipment life.” operation, reliability, and safety of mining A report of the findings, including actionable Based on decades of experience working with operations and coal distribution. Safety in a coal- advice for faults detected, is posted to the maintenance departments, Dingo’s point of view mining environment remains a paramount WATCHMAN™ Reliability Portal and sent to the is that there is only value in data when it is concern for miners and operators: the mine’s staff in PDF format. applied with the end result in mind. All data flammability of coal dust and the dangers of Quick and efficient vibration analysis allows should be put through the filter of "Will this underground mining require stringent care of on-site mechanics a greater window of time in information help improve maintenance outcomes machines and plant environment to preserve the which to plan repairs, allowing the mine more and the health of the asset? If it doesn’t check safety and lives of workers. leeway to plan according to production needs. these boxes, it's simply creating noise in the Azima DLI analysts conducted a survey and Azima DLI streamlines the monitoring process by system.” analysis of a longwall mine’s machinery as a training on-site personnel and mechanics to The company adds: “This is where technology demonstration of Azima DLI’s predictive collect vibration data, improving the skill set of applications such as predictive analytics and data maintenance techniques. After building a the client’s employees and providing one more management come into the picture. Used wisely, database and conducting a single day of data safeguard against machinery failure. Competent with the desired outcome in mind, these tools collection, the analysts discovered serious on-site personnel can be crucial to plant safety, can process and analyse enormous volumes of damage on crucial conveyors. especially in a volatile mining environment. data, leading to actionable insights that help “Left unchecked, this problem would have Azima DLI’s vibration program also drives root miners make faster, better maintenance inflicted severe damage on the conveyor and shut cause analysis. Root cause analysis takes failure decisions and keep equipment performing at its down the plant for at least a week. The damage information and probes for the patterns and best. While technology is an important part of would also expose the plant and its workers to causes behind the failure, in order to circumvent the solution, the whole maintenance system, the risk of fire or explosion. Azima DLI’s fault similar failures in the future. Root cause analysis, including people and processes, must be set up detection averted a potential safety hazard and performed by personnel at the facility, takes into correctly to capitalise on these insights.” ensured continued production and distribution of account the machine, the environment, the According to Dingo, that's a big opportunity area coal. As a result, the mine instituted new personnel involved and their level of expertise,

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was authorised to train mine personnel in The product was officially launched in the US vibration data collection. These maintenance at MINExpo 2016. Tough Tracker is wholly owned strategies, built on root cause analysis, minimise by Concirrus Ltd, a cloud software and the risk of the reoccurrence of similar faults in connectivity company based in London, UK. mine machinery. “Built as the market’s most durable asset The coal facility hired Azima DLI as their tracker, Tough Tracker is capable of withstanding primary predictive maintenance provider. Azima repeated impact from a sledgehammer, ensuring DLI analysts returned to the mine to prepare 100 reliability in the harshest of conditions and acting machines for vibration data collection and as a deterrent to would-be thieves. In fact, Tough analysis. Azima DLI analysts also trained Tracker is so robust, it broke testing equipment personnel to operate TRIO data collectors, at the Rockwell testing facility in the UK. More, ensuring independence and another level of the product sends impact alerts to the asset vigilance safeguarding secure and efficient mine owner when under attack, and temperature alerts production. Azima DLI continues to monitor, in the event of fire.” analyse, and recommend actions regarding the Tough Tracker utilises cellular (Dual-Band At a coal operation, vibration data was collected with an Azima DLI TRIO™ vibration analyser and information mine personnel upload to the Azima UMTS/HSPA+, Quad-Band GSM/GPRS/EDGE) transmitted to a cloud database where it was run DLI cloud database. and satellite (16 channel) technology to provide through Azima DLI’s automated diagnostic tracking data via a simple, secure interface. system and reviewed by a live analyst Asset tracking toughness Multiple assets can be managed simultaneously, Advantage PressurePro has just announced that with geo-fence alerts available via SMS. Tough the tools, parts, and treatments (including grease it is the official US distributor of what it says is Tracker runs off an internal battery and does not and lubricant) used, as well as any potential the world’s toughest tracking device known as require an external power source. contaminants or maintenance issues that may Tough Tracker, a bullet-proof tracking and asset “With millions of dollars of mining equipment, have contributed to the failure. Root cause management device to be made commercially farming apparatus, construction equipment, analysis, when performed correctly, minimises available worldwide. “With a highly robust Kevlar vehicles and other heavy assets being stolen the possibility of reoccurrence. outer shell, Tough Tracker allows asset owners to every year worldwide, Tough Tracker is leading A vibration data collection work order was keep track of both static and mobile assets 24/7 the fight against asset theft and streamlining implemented on a monthly basis, and Azima DLI while minimising the risk of theft or vandalism.” asset management for fleet managers.” IM

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