ABB Ability™ Stockyard Management System

• Ensure highest quality requirements
• Keep the inventory updated and accurate as possible
• Connect different steps in the value chain of materials handling
• Strike a balance between quality, performance and flexibility for your operation
• Managing one or multiple inputs of different material qualities
• Mixing and blending material in a certain range
• Preparing one or multiple outputs of different material qualities
• External influences and duration of storage can change the material properties
• Prove the quality of your material in regular reports
• Manage the high handling effort between planning, quality department, maintenance and operators

The ABB Ability^TM Stockyard Management System provides material tracking and quality management for a dedicated bulk material quality management system. This digital application includes several functions that can minimize handling efforts and increase the efficiency of bulk material handling terminals, coal-fired power plant stockyards, steel plants or mines.

It is a configurable system that can be used to digitalize the complete material handling chain. The material flow can be modelled across all belt conveyors and transportation equipment. All available material properties and quality information can then be associated with the material via automated data interfaces.

This digital twin of the stockyard provides the operator with an inventory overview at any time, without the need of an extra survey. All data can also be used for operational optimization such as efficient space utilization in a yard, better planning and scheduling, or more accurate mixing and blending processes.

• Modelling the transportation and stacking/ reclaiming process of a stockyard
• Integration of fully automated operating yard machines
• Real time and real live overview of stock condition
• 3D and 2D visualization of stockyard layout, stockpiles and yard machines
• Color coded visualization of different material qualities in stockpiles, cut views into stockpiles
• Real-live pile updates by drones or laser scanners
• Laboratory system integration
• Downtime management
• Interfaces to different systems provide a seamless workflow from ERP to control system for stockyard operations
• Material quality and mass tracking during transportation and modelling the stockpile build up

• Detailed inventory information of the material stock at any time
• Increase storage capacity without a huge investment
• Reduce the gap between theoretical and real capacity
• Job overview for efficient production decision
• Improve operational execution
• Enable fully automated operation with manless machine control
• Cut handling efforts by automated data interfaces
• Reduce administration tasks by generating automated reports