Reduce Mining Production Downtime
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (GMT -05:00) Eastern Time (USA, Canada)
Language: English
Webcast Information
Mining Operations, Maintenance and Management personnel are constantly struggling to identify and eliminate the root cause of downtimes through the implementation of targeted improvement strategies.
Register and learn to:
• Improve safety and reduce operating costs by reducing unplanned maintenance
• Increase plant efficiency and performance
• Benchmark plant performance such as OEE, availability and utilization in real-time
• Defer capital expenditure for plant expansion by utilizing hidden plant capacity
Integrate downtime reporting with existing plant control systems to provide valuable information on your production cycle, enabling you to target and repair the causes of the most costly delays and minimize disruptions that have the greatest impact on productivity.
Improved accuracy and timeliness of downtime information supports an agile decision process necessary to achieve and maintain a competitive advantage.
Automatically collect downtime and production data from the plant control system and log all changes to data and system configuration for traceability, accountability and compliance.
Instructor Information
Mike Brown
M.A.Sc., P.Eng.
Mike Brown continues to serve, as he has for the past 15 years, as an advanced process control consultant providing implementation expertise and technology guidance for many operating companies. Mike sits on the ISA-SP18, Instrument Signals and Alarms standards committee where new alarm management standards and practices are updated to reflect the changes in automation control systems and alarming functionality. Mike was presented with the Ray Molloy Award for co-authoring the best selling ISA book in 2002 entitled "Advanced Control Unleashed: Plant Performance Management for Optimum Benefit".