Mining, Metallurgy and Materials

The PI System helps us stay alive in a competitive marketplace by allowing us to uncover latent potential within the enterprise. With PI, we have better focus, can highlight best performance levels, highlight lost opportunities and reduce clerical functions. It allows us to turn data into information.
George A. Troy, Aughinish Alumina Ltd.

Overview

The OSIsoft PI System is a critical foundation for successful implementation of metals, materials and mining industry applications. The PI System is a flexible, powerful and continually growing family of applications and tools that gather, manipulate and make operational information available to everyone who needs it—in the proper context for each user and in an instantly understandable visual form.

PI System Solutions

The capabilities provided by the PI System are especially important in today's global economy, where metals, materials & mining companies are faced with ever-increasing demands on processes, equipment, and people. Remote site operations, lower ore grades, large capital investments, increasing energy costs, and tightening environmental compliance issues create a challenging environment. Furthermore, volatile metals prices, increased production targets, and stricter quality standards are forcing companies to work at higher and higher peak performance levels.

The ability to control costs, optimize asset utilization, empower people, increase performance, and create flexible connectivity between systems — all while maximizing enterprise-wide performance efficiencies — can be the difference between success and failure. The PI System helps companies capitalize on vast quantities of data, using it to attain real-time intelligence and quickly make sound strategic decisions. The PI System is enabling customers to facilitate the deployment of their Six Sigma, Quest for Zero, and Operational Excellence programs.

PI System customers are integrating all their operations at the corporate level to leverage production tracking, improved energy management, asset optimization, composition tracking, costs reduction, safety and environmental issues. The majority of the top ten innovative metal companies have turned to OSIsoft experience for the strategic information infrastructure provided by the PI System.

Benefits

The economic benefits that are realized through utilizing the PI System include:

• Asset Optimization (Extended Equipment Availability)
• Energy Management (Overall Costs Reductions)
• Improved Grade Recovery Management
• Integrated Metallurgical Process Optimization
• Reduction of Metal Losses
• Reduction of Waste
• Improved Long-term Capital Investments