Implementing an Effective Energy Management Program: Katherine Van Nes, P. Eng with the systems and process control group of Hatch will share their experiences integrating the disparate procedural, physical, and information systems into an effective Energy Management Information System. This ...
Year: 2014
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Year: 2014
Optimizing uptime of Syncrude’s fleet of heavy haulers is key to cost-effective productivity at its oilsands mines. Beyond event data acquisition from the hauler’s sophisticated onboard systems, Syncrude has created procedures to raise secondary, synthesized events that are acted upon ...
Year: 2014
Two needs in the mining industry, to enable overall process improvements, are open systems and network connectivity in mines. The SymBot project, a collaboration between Symboticware, Glencore, Vale and CEMI, addresses these issues, and leverages the solution platform to deliver ...
Year: 2014
Equipment breakdowns, lost production and production delays are undesirable but often unavoidable realities of any processing plant. By accurately recording the factors that contribute to these events, we can turn these losses into learning opportunities, eventually reducing both the frequency ...
Year: 2014