Honeywell worked with the company to implement a Networking at its facility in Santiago, Chile. This center connects operating sites to essential facilities, creating a collaborative environment that is the key enabler for production improvement.
Operational Benefits: Expertise is centralized in a single, easy-to-staff location and was networking across multiple sites. The automation infrastructure, as well as applications such as advanced process control, can be deployed, maintained and optimized across mine operations with optimal efficiency and without requiring additional head count. The specific benefits of this project include:
Improved overall operational performance
Effective deployment of best practices and solutions across multiple mining facilities
Increased production throughput and copper recovery
Increased profit margins without major capital expansions
But What Really Matters: Similar to the aforementioned aluminum producer, this copper mining company improved operations using advanced process control. The challenge with any company that implements APC, though, is that they usually don’t have in-house expertise to sustain APC benefits as operating conditions of production targets change. Centralizing APC is a much more efficient method and allowed the mining company to sustain its APC benefits for the long term.
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http://www.automation.com/business-transformation-through-remote-collaboration-optimization-and-operations