Production goals. Environmental goals. Reliability and safety. Everything counts when you need to optimise your mining operations.
Whether you work in underground mines, port facilities, material handling/stock pile, or the extreme conditions of discontinuous open-pit mining – it can be hard to select the best drive technology that can offer high availability in a mechanically robust design. That’s why ABB Australia has made it easier for you to identify what key features you should be looking for when it comes to selection criteria.
Should support all the demands of your high-quality specifications efficiently, and safely.
- Reliability: Increase productivity, process quality and throughput whilst avoiding unplanned shutdowns.
- Safety: Support the safest worksite to reduce the risk of a hazard that could ignite a fire or gas ignition.
- Service and support: Because operations can run 24/7, it’s essential to work with a provider that can offer a global service network with service engineers ready to assist. There is a heightened emphasis on making plant and personnel safety a priority.
- Environmental impact: Implement drives that have the ability to lower energy consumption, gas emissions and pollution levels.
- Lower operational overheads: Look for those drives that can reduce the need for other electrical network compensation devices.
- Easy to package with a motor: Look for drive-motor packages that precisely match your process requirements. This will provide you with advantages such as an optimised system design, reduced commissioning time, integrated manufacturing and delivery schedules, and accurate verification of the functionality and the load performance of your drive-motor package.
What about when it comes to new technologies? You want to rely on consistent, efficient power to keep costs low and operations running as smoothly as possible. Harmonic distortions can disturb or even damage sensitive equipment connected in the same environment. Beyond causing noise and increased power usage and surges, harmonics can also cause additional losses in the network. How to do you overcome this? Our new guide will show you how.
We'll also explain how to expand your operation's digital limits - from your mine, to the cloud, and more, with ABB Ability™ solutions. This offering combines connectivity and data analytics with ABB's expertise to make your operations efficient, predictable and safe.