Mine Mineral & Metal

Challenges

You must make the production environment safe for employees and maintain profitability with significantly lower commodity prices. You must manage energy consumption in a highly variable production environment, while reducing environmental impact for increased sustainability. You must comply with government regulations for emissions reporting and respond to load-shedding.

Our solutions

Schneider Electric's integrated solutions and expertise make energy management for mining, minerals, and metals safe, reliable, productive, and efficient. Your facilities can produce up to 30% more megatons per megawatt with our Production Energy Optimisation solution. Utility costs are reduced by up to 15% with the Enterprise Energy Management solution, and plant stoppages by up to 50% with our Delay Account solution. Intelligent Power & Motor Control Centre (iPMCC), imaging, and access detection improve power safety, reliability, and security.

Main drivers

• Safety:  Reduce Lost-time accidents and protect equipment; Security Systems
• Sustainable Development: Reduce consumption of energy and water and reduce all environmental emissions
  
• Capacity:  Expand output to meet increasing demand – bring this capacity on-line as fast as possible
  
• Reduced cost per ton: Improve competitiveness -  reduce operating expenses and increase total productivity
• Optimize Capital Expenditure: Get the most out of your capital expenditures by minimizing pay back period while maximizing output and quality
  
• Reduce energy consumption: Reduce cost while addressing power availability limitations and increasing power quality
  

What can Schneider Electric do?

• Safety: Safety Systems and Solutions for process and power
  
• Sustainable Development: Total Energy Efficiency Solutions
• Capacity: Collaborative Design Solutions using pre-tested software standards
  
• Reduced cost per ton: MMM Operations Management Solutions to increase Overall Equipment Effectiveness
  
• Optimize Capital Expenditure: Global Projects and Execution Centres for consultation, design, installation and commissioning
• Reduce energy consumption: Total Energy Efficiency Solutions