Metals & Mining companies must integrate multiple sites, often in very remote locations, into one standardized information system providing headquarters with access to real-time data from across the enterprise. To stay competitive in a regulatory environment, companies must empower their people with real time data to optimize mining and metallurgical extraction and production processes, and to streamline and document regulatory compliance efforts.

Metals & Mining companies worldwide use the OSIsoft^® PI System^® to provide the real-time data infrastructure and collaboration tools they need to meet key challenges, including:

• Increasing energy efficiency
• Managing water consumption
• Maximizing asset performance
• Mitigating risk and achieving regulatory compliance

Become more energy efficient.

• Gain a single, accurate, real-time data source that tracks energy inputs and consumption across all mines, smelters, and refineries.
• Empower better energy-management decisions that reduce environmental impact and lower costs.
• Integrate real-time energy usage information into a corporate portal that enables employees to identify ways to balance load distributions.
• Monitor real-time energy usage within refineries using exception-based policies and benchmarks, and automate corrective action.
  
  

Maximize asset performance through real-time monitoring.

• Improve grade recovery management and future forecasting with accurate information on actual production process costs, including energy consumption, yields, and efficiency.
• Reduce waste and associated costs by having real-time updates on production status and required inventory levels.
• Prolong asset life and minimize long-term capital investments using condition-based maintenance programs that send scheduled-repair notifications before breakdowns occur. 
  
  

Mitigate risk and comply with regulations more efficiently.

• Reduce unaccounted-for metal losses with the ability to analyze historical data and identify the problem sources.
• Effectively meet regulatory requirements and achieve certification, quality assurance, and Six Sigma goals with complete and accurate reporting.
• Ensure that mines, smelters, and refineries can run efficiently and safely with real-time monitoring that enables people to identify and prevent problems before they occur.