{"id":8414,"date":"2017-07-21T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T19:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/07\/21\/news-2188\/"},"modified":"2017-07-21T11:00:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T19:00:15","slug":"news-2188","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/07\/21\/news-2188\/","title":{"rendered":"IIoT is alive and well in Ekaterinburg!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Gregory Conary| Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:30:31 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"At the beginning of July I had the honour of speaking at the Smart Manufacturing conference at Innoprom 2017, an annual Russian\u00a0trade fair focused on the priorities driving world industry and technology \u2013 and especially on the priorities that support Russia’s program of industrial and manufacturing development.<\/p>\n

The event was held in Ekaterinburg, Russia.\u00a0 Ekaterinburg is Russia\u2019s fourth largest city and a centre for mining<\/a> known for its rich mineral wealth.\u00a0 Such is the importance of the area and its contribution to the Russian economy that Russian President Putin opened the event on his way back from the G20 summit in Hamburg.\u00a0 The panels I spoke on and the speech I gave to the strategic council may not have been as well attended or met with as much enthusiasm as Mr. Putin\u2019s opening remarks, but there was a genuine buzz at the event and participation was high.<\/p>\n

At first glance, and not being from the mining industry, I wondered why all the excitement around digitization in mining.\u00a0 After all, humans have been digging for metal ore, coal and precious metals for thousands of years.\u00a0 What\u2019s changed?<\/p>\n

Well, if we dig into the matter (sorry couldn\u2019t resist), digitization is having a huge impact on mining. In fact, I would go so far as to say it is changing the entire landscape. \u00a0Why? Because it\u2019s an industry with large, expensive assets and highly complicated logistics that run from the mine itself all the way to the ports from which the product is shipped all over the world.\u00a0 Mining operations consume huge amounts of energy and have a need for ever-improving safety.\u00a0 So, in effect, it is an industry that actually is a perfect fit for today\u2019s digital technology.<\/p>\n

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Just a few examples:\u00a0 Mining haul trucks, the real life multi-story size versions of the toy dump trucks we had as kids, can have hundreds of sensors on board.\u00a0 And just about every process in a mine uses some kind of large, expensive, moving or rotating equipment.\u00a0 This is a sweet spot for Asset Performance \u2013 the ability of IIoT<\/a> to monitor equipment health, provide early warning diagnostics of issues, and even schedule repairs and order spare parts before an operator even realises there is a problem.\u00a0 Easy to see how this would result in improved asset availability, reduced production losses, minimised logistics issues and improved safety.<\/p>\n

At the conference, virtual reality and augmented reality technology were also on prominent display.\u00a0 This makes perfect sense when you consider the\u00a0geography of mining operations and how they are spread over an enormous amount of acreage.\u00a0 Having a maintenance person leave the field and head back to a central depot every time he needs a maintenance manual, diagnostic support or to order a spare part is extremely inefficient.<\/p>\n

Remember the study I quoted previously by Cisco that spoke about \u201cwrench time?\u201d\u00a0 They stated a typical oil field maintenance worker is only fixing something about 25% of his time – the other 75% is wasted traveling to and from a site searching for manuals, etc. etc.\u00a0\u00a0 Mining operations would face the same issues and the benefits of the \u201caugmented operator\u201d are again easy to see.<\/p>\n

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From these simple examples, we can move to the overall \u201cpit to port\u201d operation.\u00a0 These can be huge endeavours with decades long supply chain planning.\u00a0 From a data perspective it\u2019s even bigger \u2013 our mining experts tell me full pit to port operations yield well over a terabyte of data per minute!\u00a0 What can you do with all that data?\u00a0 Where do you start?<\/p>\n

Well, this is the sweet spot for big data, cloud analytics and AI. Fully integrated operational software that provides decision-making support for planning and logistics can have a huge impact on the overall operation.\u00a0 As just one example we\u2019ve work on, Sam Walsh, the head of Rio Tinto, has publicly stated that the first year they employed big data, Rio Tinto squeezed $80 million dollars from its cash flow.\u00a0 Big data, big rewards!<\/p>\n

To me this a great example of one of the oldest industries in the world embracing some of the newest technologies.\u00a0\u00a0 A digital world where, as we see it here at Schneider Electric, Life is One for Everyone at Every Moment!<\/p>\n

Click here to learn more about increaseing value through digital solutions.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Credit to Author: Gregory Conary| Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:30:31 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

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