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Digital technology is key to meeting the industry's goals of reducing environmental impact and improving productivity. Digitalisation can quickly transform our ability to respond to big challenges. However, the current pace of change in the use of digital technology in mining remains slow due to the prevalence of obsolete and proprietary automation hardware and the conservative approach of the industry.

FLSmidth is investing heavily in the digital transformation of its products and ways of working, embracing agile development, co-creation of value with partners within the industry and with third parties and universities.

ECS/ProcessExpert™ (PXP) Advanced Process Control systems now have a module to allow data scientists (at the customer side) to integrate their own AI algorithms into PXP using common tools like Jupyter Notebook. AI Models can be trained in either customer or FLSmidth cloud and deployed into production in the PXP server at the mine.

For any Advanced Process Control and AI/ ML models to work we need reliable and smart instrumentation.

We are exploring possibilities of integrating the following instruments with the advanced process control:

Bridge and boulder detection at crushers
Crushed rock particle size
Load IQ on the ball mill
Moisture sensor on the filter press
Turbidity on individual filter press plates
Grade estimation from froth camera
Digital twin
Plant optimisation

Site-wide digital boosters

ECS/PlantDataManagement

An information system that transforms your process and quality data into real-time operations intelligence. Part of our ENABLR portfolio of digital solutions, ECS/PlantDataManagement automatically generates online Key Performance Indicators, supporting the decision-making process and promoting collaboration.

ECS/UptimeGo

A downtime analysis solution to help plant staff to identify the issues that interrupt operations and to prevent unwanted future downtime. Part of our ENABLR portfolio of digital solutions, ECS/UptimeGo calculates the economic value of downtime, allowing plant staff to focus on finding the root causes of the problems that impact plant productivity.

SiteConnect™ Mobile Insights App...

...connects you to critical asset performance and health data – anywhere and at any time in real-time. Part of our ENABLR portfolio of digital solutions, SiteConnect empowers asset management, shortening response time to unplanned events and enabling optimum productivity.

Highlights from MINExpo 2021

Mark Fielder (Head of Service Line Management) and Rebecca Siwale, (Director Productivity & Digital Service Solutions) examine the mining flowsheet through the perspective of the cost savings and efficiency gains that miners can achieve through service, upgrades and easy-to-implement digital solutions.