Download Free: Rio Tinto Iron Ore (Pilbara Iron) Centralized Monitoring
To meet the growing demand for their iron ore, particularly from the ever-growing Chinese market, Pilbara Iron were faced with the challenge of increasing production from their mining operations, or more importantly preventing stoppages in production, while maintaining quality.
Download this paper to learn more about the benefits Rio Tinto realized through the centralized monitoring project, including:
- increased visibility of the process control systems and how they affect performance
- identification of bottlenecks in the process, leading to improvements in production and reduction in downtime
- the ability to benchmark sites against one another in order to discover why some sites may be performing better than others
- significant reduction in numbers of nuisance alarms
- development of best-practice operating and maintenance strategies