• Loss Management System: Motivation, Conception and Recent Results

    Production loss accounting and optimization is an important focus for HYDRO Alunorte. This has historically been performed manually for the seven production lines, requiring a large engineering effort and resulted in lower precision and slower analysis than desired. Leveraging the ...
    Year: 2017

    Transforming Air Quality Compliance Reporting at the Goldstrike Mine with Asset Framework

    The Barrick Goldstrike Mine has three active Air Quality Operating Permits. Data is consolidated and reported in monthly compliance logs, which are then reviewed by the State of Nevada’s Bureau of Air Pollution Control. The data is obtained primarily through ...
    Year: 2017

    Photovoltaic System Monitoring and Analysis Using PI System

    The outdoor PV module monitoring has been widely applied in today’s PV systems. As the monitoring resolution continues increasing, the amount of data collected also increases tremendously. A powerful storage and analysis tool is needed in order to deal with ...
    Year: 2017

    Mine Haul Truck Health Monitoring System

    Mine production throughput and mining plans are sensitive to the variability of the maintenance availability. The mission of monitoring conditions is to detect those potential failures early enough for increasing equipment reliability and thus its availability. The problem was that, ...
    Year: 2017

    Enterprise Value: How APS Creates Corporate Wide Benefits

    Abstract APS had been using PI for many years. In 2015, APS began an Enterprise wide program to fully leverage PI and this has changed the way PI is deployed and used within the organization. Broadening the use of PI has ...
    Year: 2017