Transforming Mining through Industrial Intelligence

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A new generation is rising, defined not by age or experience, but by the relentless desire for progress.

By harnessing trusted insight and ingenuity - your Industrial Intelligence - you can open up new avenues for growth, drive decarbonization, and reshape Mining for the future.

Maximize agility and productivity, while ensuring safety and sustainable practices from pit to port, through trusted insights.

Turn data into decisions

Transform disconnected data into decisive action.

Break down silos

Share integrated data across teams and systems.

Connect every link

Power collaboration and resilience throughout your value chain.

Turn insight into growth

Build new revenue streams and enable efficiencies.

Read how AVEVA customers harnessed their Industrial Intelligence

Rio Tinto
Norsk Hydro Brazil
Agnico Eagle

Rio Tinto's Industrial Intelligence turned disconnection into integration

Rio Tinto is one of the world’s largest metals and mining corporations, operating in 35 countries with more than 60,000 employees. Its operations – producing iron ore, copper, aluminium and lithium – span from mines and processing plants to ports and shipping facilities.

With an integrated network, the organization requires seamless data flow to maintain operational excellence and meet the growing global demand for resources to support modern life and the energy transition.

Data on its own is noise. Data, in context, is information. … We found AVEVA to be the best fit for our business in terms of what we wanted to achieve.

Paul Rushton

Manager of Digital Delivery

Rio Tinto

Tackling disconnected systems to support operational visibility

Rio Tinto’s operations faced significant challenges with their existing data infrastructure, including:

Digital tools that required between three to six months to configure for a new project.
Inefficiencies resulting from disconnected data between project delivery and operations.
An internally built in-house system for tracking downtime with receiving little and inconsistent usage.
Lack of standardized HMI across mine sites hampering flexibility and response times.

These challenges prevented the company from maximizing the value of its data. The company needed to streamline its project delivery process, improve operations tracking and standardize visualization to create a cohesive data infrastructure.

Creating a foundation for contextualized data

Implementing AVEVA’s software, Rio Tinto was able to address the issues it faced.

Engineering: Deployed AVEVA Asset Information Management to create a preconfigured, standardized system that allowed engineering service providers to use the tools upfront.
Operations: Built on the widely-used AVEVA PI System and implemented AVEVA Production Management to track downtime and losses.
Optimization: Used AVEVA System Platform and AVEVA Plant SCADA to standardize HMI across all mine sites with a centralized design.

The implemented solution established efficient project portals and created effective integration across the organization.

Extracting meaningful insights across operations

By connecting design and engineering tools, Rio Tinto has realized significant benefits - addressing current challenges and also positioning Rio Tinto to capitalize on future opportunities:

Time savings of up to 20% for operators and on-site personnel.
Approximately 1 hour saved per person per shift.
Reduced downtime and increased plant availability.
More efficient project delivery through streamlined data connections.
Enhanced ability to make data-driven decisions.

By unlocking its industrial intelligence, Rio Tinto has transformed how it manages data, creating a more efficient, responsive, and profitable operation, from pit to port.

Norsk Hydro's Industrial Intelligence turned raw data into refined insights

Norsk Hydro is a leading aluminium and renewable energy producer committed to a sustainable future. The business has 32,000 employees in more than 140 locations in 42 countries.

Norsk Hydro Brazil’s operations span the aluminium value chain from mining all the way to the final product. The team needed ready access to years of historical data to ensure that refineries, plants, and other work sites could run smoothly and safely. The company wanted to connect its teams with the data they need to avoid unplanned downtime and make fast, informed decisions with confidence.

We are an aluminium company, but data for us is extremely important to deliver our strategy [of] digital transformation.

Pedro Costa

Senior System Specialist

Norsk Hydro Brazil

The team faced the following key challenges:

High maintenance costs
Premature asset scrappage
Production losses due to asset failures

Integrating data with analytics to drive impact

The team came to AVEVA, looking for ways to reduce the time needed to collect data and to enable predictive analytics to drive efficient decision-making.

Through the combination of AVEVA PI System to streamline data collection, access, analysis, and reporting on maintenance with AVEVA Predictive Analytics for critical asset monitoring, Norsk Hydro’s first Asset Monitoring Center could visually track alerts and deviations.

Norsk Hydro Brazil achieved the following results:

Over $4.7M in maintenance cost savings
Costs avoided through asset failure anticipation
Reduced human exposure to unplanned maintenance risks
Increased operational efficiency and safety

Increased agility and conviction

Norsk Hydro Brazil has unlocked its industrial intelligence through better data access and insights combined with human ingenuity to enable quicker, more confident decision-making.

Agnico Eagle's Industrial Intelligence turned challenges into opportunities

Agnico Eagle is the world’s third largest gold producer, operating 11 mines from Australia to Canada. Its workforce exceeds 16,000 people across many challenging environments. The organization sought to seamlessly integrate their data to optimize performance and overcome challenges, such as:

Lack of integration between data sets, which limited opportunities for analytics related to asset health, operator performance and emissions.
Secure data integration needed to be easier and faster.
Creating a scalable data infrastructure across OT and IT was essential for the company’s future growth.
Difficulty combining data from multiple streams into a cohesive meaningful output.

The Digital Transformation team, established in 2022, identified that data access challenges were limiting their analytics abilities.

Leveraging CONNECT data services to seamlessly query time series data in the Databricks environment will open the door to many use cases where disparate data sets exist.

Karl Leetmaa

Metallurgy Subject Matter Expert

Agnico Eagle Mines

Unifying industrial data makes insight possible

Partnering with AVEVA on the lighthouse early adopter program, Agnico Eagle implemented a comprehensive solution that seamlessly integrated their industrial data sets along with relational data from a variety of business systems.

Apply advanced analytics of their haul trucks at their Nunavut sites in the Canadian Arctic region. This revealed critical correlations between fuel consumption and equipment parameters that would have remained hidden in siloed systems.
Eliminate departmental barriers, through their new Integrated Operations Center, enabling faster responses to operational changes and optimizing the entire mining value chain.

Saving through optimized operations

The CONNECT data services integration has already delivered significant improvements:

3x increase in total data transfer speed compared to original solutions.
Reduction in processing time from 8-9 days to just 1-2 days.
Improved asset health through predictive maintenance.
Lower carbon emissions from optimized haul routes and fuel consumption.
Enabled additional analytics projects including paste backfill integration, energy mapping, improved BI reporting, and process plant KPI dashboards.

By building a unified data foundation through CONNECT, Agnico Eagle has transformed how they access, integrate, and analyze industrial data. By unlocking the industrial intelligence within its information landscape, Agnico Eagle is creating the foundation for more efficient, sustainable, and profitable mining operations that will deliver value for years to come.

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