Mining, Minerals, Metals solution: Process Control Solutions for Mineral Processing

•  Architectures based on Ethernet TCP/IP
  

Provide the greatest openness and transparency at all levels of the enterprise. Ethernet simplifies your overall communications infrastructure by expanding the horizon of components and innovation, and it provides consistency and simple integration of factory systems with business level communications. Open Ethernet technologies promote scalability and flexibility required to give a long life to mining installations  

Transparent integration with field devices and instrument networks (Hart, Profibus and Foundation Fieldbus)

Linked to Ethernet backbone will allow users to get data, visualize, configure and maintain these devices in a wider plant approach (not restricted by process area)

[ Ethernet is the right technology for plant expansions - Validated and future proof technology where its evolution is driven by the market ] 

 

• Distributed system based on the real process hierarchy:

Our advanced design and generation software tool integrates process controllers and supervision systems in a common database.  It structures the mine application according to the process functional diagram and delivers a true distributed control system environment that is flexible and open.

 
[ Tools that can save 20% to 35% on project schedules ]

• Powerful control systems associated to integrated engineering and programming tools.

Combining innovation and power, our process control platform responds to critical demands of the mining industry:

- Use of the highest performance equipment in its category offering high availability functions (redundant systems)
- Advanced Process control and  mathematical functions
- Process simulation (off line) without risk of actual operation, saving time and cost in commissioning, plant expansions or process improvements/modifications
- Flexible programming languages covering both process engineering and the demands of electrical and maintenance teams

[ Advanced process control allows for a 5% increase for the grinding circuit performance ]

• Supervision systems gives a complete visualization and operation for mine processes.
  

The operator has a graphical and a friendly view from all systems and variables, allowing them to make the right decisions and actions in real-time

Advanced Clustering Technology
- Provide a seamless operator view across existing control systems, 
- Provide a combination of control (including alarms, reports and trends), local to the process, paired with a central standby server ,
- Support additional processing for expansion requirements by simply adding a new server to the control system,
- Control system segmentation to ensure changes in one process unit do not affect the others,
- Use cluster swapping to re-use graphics screens between similar systems or for simulation /replay