From pit to port, Rio Tinto relies on a data infrastructure that provides real-time insight across multisite operations. Whether it’s improving engineering and operations or optimizing and modernizing plants, Rio Tinto is connecting the dots across its many sites and projects using data in context.
Engineering
“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
Challenge
Current digital tools can take three to six months to configure for a single project
Solution
Allowing engineering service providers to use a preconfigured, standardized system up front with AVEVA engineering tools, including AVEVA™ Asset Information Management, saved time and money
Result
Connecting design and engineering tools allowed Rio Tinto to streamline project delivery, making operations more efficient
Operations
“If we have a plant running at 100% availability and 80% utilization, how can we bridge that gap? This is the outcome of the data we get from the system that we want to act on to lead to improvement.”
– Diego Lachiavo,
Project Manager, Rio Tinto
Challenge
The in-house system for tracking downtime had fallen out of use
Solution
The aluminum business implemented AVEVA™ Production Management on top of the company’s widely used AVEVA™ PI System™, to easily track downtime and losses
Result
Teams across disciplines extracted analytics to investigate losses and mitigate them in the future
Optimization
“Our partnership with AVEVA was pretty essential. We had a local support team … in Australia that was able to help support a lot of this work.”
– Gordon Tsen,
Principal Control Systems, Rio Tinto Iron Ore
Challenge
The company needed to standardize HMI across all its mine sites to improve flexibility and response times
Solution
Using AVEVA™ System Platform and AVEVA™ Plant SCADA, Rio Tinto implemented a centralized HMI design with a goal of delivering one ASM standard across all mines
Result
The company created an intuitive library of new and legacy sites and can now update products 24/7
