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Rockwell Automation’s innovative MOM suite addresses the industry’s toughest challenges, offering advanced tools and modules designed to optimise performance, enhance productivity and drive sustainable success in mining operations.


modules might include production reporting and inventory and storage management, among others.


Extensive mining- dedicated modules


Agile and flexible development of new user- created modules with easy integration for future users is standard in the Rockwell MOM suite. Some of the out-of-the-box modules that are critical to miners and unique to Rockwell Automation’s solution are: ■


OEE/asset utilisation KPIs: This module allows KPI benchmarking of performance over time and provides a clear indication to which plant areas and equipment are performing well and that are causing production losses. Not all process areas contribute equally to aggregation: the solution aggregates the proportion of time and losses intelligently.


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Downtime/loss accounting: The Rockwell module identifies the business impact of planned and unplanned stoppages, as well as the impact and cause of rate losses and systematic causes of failures.


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Short interval control: A brand- new module that factors the impact on performance, health and quality, and measures against known boundary thresholds then alerts operators when the circuit is not functioning as required. This allows operators to make meaningful changes within a shift to improve overall productivity.


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Production reporting: Automated reporting of actual feedstock blends, throughputs, consumption of reagents, flocculants and outputs in the context of where they are consumed, produced, recovered or recirculated.


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Metal reporting: A critical module that aligns sample results with material movements to calculate the constituent quantities of the various elements within the overall ore flow. Recoveries and losses can be calculated separately for each mineral within the ore body.


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Statistical process control (SPC): This module applies statistical methods to identify quality exceptions and deviations before reaching out-of-specification limits.


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Inventory management and storage balances: Reporting the net balance in stockpiles, stockpile partitions, silos, tanks and other storage vessels based on metered additions, depletions and survey adjustments. It tracks the grade from source to destination, allowing predictions of loadout grade based on source stockpile ratios before the lab results are available. Materials and grades can be tracked by either physical or virtual models.


The MOM suite from Rockwell Automation boasts powerful single data modelling and data corrections. The MOM suite stores data from various sources with full transparency as to what data has been manually manipulated. Its robust data collection


strategy and comprehensive product capabilities handle independent systems with high data availability in differing time horizons, offering data reprocessing with little to no user intervention, creating a single source of truth for operational and enterprise decision-making. Rockwell offers a responsive, modern web interface, which detects the device type and automatically switches from desktop to mobile mode. The system is designed to provide self-service facilities for mobile field operators, field technicians and other remote personnel. The MOM suite offers modern connectivity with ERP systems for production reporting, maintenance systems and enterprise-wide reports, such as Power-BI. Rockwell’s solution delivers genealogy specially designed for bulk-commodity handling, relating downstream material movements to upstream sources – from ship to mine. Rockwell Automation’s MOM suite was conceived and designed to transform your mine with enabling technology that takes flexibility and performance to new heights. Make the most of existing data and transform decision-making from day one with a suite that is easy to deploy, maintain and scale, with out-of-the-box features developed for mining. ●


For more information about the Mining Operations Management suite from Rockwell Automation, visit booth 6113 at MINExpo 2024.


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