The Mine Central Control Room: From Concept to Reality

The Mine Central Control Room: From Concept to Reality

Kevin Short, Sr. Application Engineer

Mining, Minerals and Metals

Schneider Electric

SME Annual Meeting and Exhibition 2013

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● People and work● Increasing skills shortage● Reduced teams

● Sustainability● GHG / Emissions● Water scarcity● Energy Prices ● People Safety● Reporting

● Minerals scarcity● Cost escalation● Grade decline● Remote Operations

Mining Industry Challenges

Schneider Electric – The Mine Central Control Room: From Concept to Reality – SME 2013


● People and work● Increasing skills shortage● Reduced teams

● Sustainability● GHG / Emissions● Water scarcity● Energy Prices ● People Safety● Reporting

● Minerals scarcity● Grade decline● Cost escalation● Remote Operations

Mining Industry Challenges

Centralized Operations



Users Challenges

Control

Operations

Enterprise“I Conserve our enterprise resources”

“I Optimize our operations and assets”

“I Control our facilities processes”

The right information to the right people

C-level executives drive sustainability strategies efficiently, choosing best scenario that meets business objective and regulatory requirements to conserve enterprise-wide resources.

Functional managers can optimize operations, energy, and assets through smart analytical tools, at one or many sites.

Experts, on-site or remotely, can control process and network performance and ensure business continuity and power availability in real-time, while tracking energy consumption in a secure environment.



Domains

Security Management

Building Management

IT Room Management

Process & Machine Management

Power Management

Local Operation

Enterprise Performance Management

Technical ChallengeThe full integration of different disciplines

Sites supervision



Challenge: Bridging the IT/OT gap

IT

OT

Across industry segments, the largest untapped efficiency potential lies at the critical interface between Enterprise and Operational systems.

Across industry segments, the largest untapped efficiency potential lies at the critical interface between Enterprise and Operational systems.



Approach: Common Service Bus

„…Web services – The Service Bus - should become our next generation Modbus. Simple to use, widely accepted as a standard exchange mechanism.“ (Barry Coflan, at OPEN stage gate for WP10)



ISA 95 architecture framework

Level 4 Sustainability

Time FrameMonths, weeks, days

Level 3 Operational Efficiency, Statistical Analysis, Predictive Analytics, Optimization

Time FrameDays, hours, minutes.

Level 2 Monitoring, supervisory control and automated control.Time FrameHours, minutes, seconds/ subseconds

Level 1 Sensing

Level 0 Physical Assets / Process / Facility

Operational Intelligence and Analytics

Enterprise

Industrial Operations

BuildingOperations

Data CenterOperations

Batch Control

Continuous Control

DiscreteControl

Building Control

Data CenterControl



3 Levels & 7 functions

Control

Operations

Enterprise“I Conserve our enterprise resources”

“I Optimize our operations and assets”

“I Control our facilities processes”

From Shop Floor to Top Floor

Asset Management

SustainabilityPlanning

Energy Management

Business Operation

Power Availability

Process Control

Security



Scalable

Use what is required / Expand as needed

Operations

Energy Operation

Building Operation

Data Center Operation

Plant Operation

Asset Operation

Control

Power SCADA Expert

Power Monitoring Expert

Building Expert

Data Center Expert

Process Expert

Security Expert

Enterprise

Resource Advisor



Cloud Delivery

At the Enterprise and Operations levels, SaaS is gaining acceptance for non-critical data, such as energy consumption.

SaaS makes the business case for Efficiency a lot easier to sell, thanks to an “as you save” investment.

At the Enterprise and Operations levels, SaaS is gaining acceptance for non-critical data, such as energy consumption.

SaaS makes the business case for Efficiency a lot easier to sell, thanks to an “as you save” investment.

Additional investment flexibility!



ApplicationsBrief examples



Sustainability

Market Info:Internet

Emissions:Sites

Efficiency:Energy Projects


Mine Business Operation

Downtime:Maintenance

Downtime:Process Control

Cost: Financials

Downtime:CMMS


Process Control Operation

Supervision:Cameras

Supervision:Process Control


Energy Management

EM:Process

EM:Power Systems

EM:Financials


Building / Surveillance Operation

Supervision:Cameras

Supervision:Building Automation


Power Operation

Supervision:Power Systems

Supervision:Automation


Weather

Supervision:Camera Systems

Weather:Lightning Systems

Weather:Radar


Mine ExecutionSystems andSupervision

Energy Management

Video and security systems

Weather

Sustainability

Central Control Room


Main Messages



Thank You!

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The Mine Central Control Room: From Concept to Reality