Talison Lithium, the world’s leading lithium producer, is driving the green energy transition through the production of lithium for the large batteries that store solar, wind, and wave energy. With complex processes, multiple plants and sites, and many data sources, Talison Lithium created a unified system with cloud capabilities for production reporting and tracking from pit to port. This integration has resulted in reduced downtime and increased end-of-month reconciliation efficiency and accuracy.
“AVEVA’s downtime system has allowed us to accurately identify downtime and causes of downtime in each of our plants. The maintainers and operators then can use this data to reduce downtime and improve efficiency.”
Chris Milford,
Chief Information Officer, Talison Lithium
Goals
- Enable users to access a trusted, single source of accurate data whether they are at home or in the field
- Shift “institutional knowledge” from a handful of team members to an accessible, real-time database
- Achieve ongoing measurement, analysis and reporting of production losses due to equipment utilization and process bottlenecks
- Automatically capture production stoppages and rate loss events, reducing downtime
Challenges
- Standardizing KPI calculations that enable consistent calculations across the plants
- Multiple similar data sources, with production reporting based on manual data collection and entry, Excel sheets, and complex calculations
- Standardizing the time usage model (TUM), equipment types, cause and effect classification model for the crushing, technical grade and chemical grade plants
- Enabling workers to access data remotely without time-consuming license management
Solutions
Results
- Intuitive end-user experience blends contextual data from plant operators, engineers and metallurgists with historical performance information in a combined interface
- Provides clear root-cause analysis and, by moving tags into AVEVA Production Management, the team accelerated the analysis process by 50% and improved accuracy
- Automated data collection increases end of month reconciliation efficiency and accuracy
- Reduces downtime by accurately identifying causes and locations
- One unified system that tracks data across mining, crushing, stockpiling, production, product storage, and shipment
- Enables users to access trusted, accurate data wherever they are with licenses activated in hours instead of weeks through AVEVA™ Flex
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