Operational Excellence for agile and reliable orchestration from mine to port

Mining Production Information | Execution | Fleet Management System

Operational Excellence for agile and reliable orchestration from mine to port
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ABB Ability™ Operations Management System for mining

Take the right actions for your operational performance objectives

Calibrate all mining-specific operational constraints in real time using a purpose-built solution integrating Analytics, Production, Process and Laboratory Information Management with Short Interval Control and Fleet Management:

  • Optimize the production flow to drive up ore recovery rates, improve resource utilization, drive down operating times and cost per ton.
  • Enable flexible short-interval planning and scheduling combined with real-time tracking of people, assets and tasks - incorporating the possibility for on-the-fly changes to reduce inefficiencies and waste
  • Ensure more automated, safe, and dependable execution - quickly adapting to ore quality and market demands
  • Improve systems interoperability following the ISA-95 standard and modern communication protocols

In unpredictable mining environment, any significant improvement in production rate / unit cost requires a more efficient use of shift time and assets. How to achieve
Increased productivity by up to 10 %

with ABB Ability™ OMS for mining - explained in 3 minutes
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Our solutions for a seamless connection between the mine and the concentrator plant - across the enterprise

Short-Term Planning, Scheduling and Short Interval Control (SIC)

Produce an automated daily plan in compliance with weekly targets, required constraints, forecasted state of production and maintenance needs. Re-plan in seconds in case of disturbances, evaluate "what if" scenarios for optimal resource usage.
Fleet Management System (FMS) and Mobile Operator Station

Vehicle and fixed equipment management and dispatch. Timely guidance for operator tasks, reporting disturbances and required production data from the on-board client or in combination with automated data logger. Interoperability and data exchange.

Inventory Management

Material movements tracking across the value chain can be integrated with Level 1 automation, Laboratory Information Management , Stockyard Management , metallurgical accounting for material quality and flow optimization. Provision to enter material movement and property manually.

Maintenance Management

CMMS connectivity, maintenance forecast reports and on-event notifications for pre-defined plan enforcement. Access to OEE, Downtime Management, Reliability charts, Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF), Mean Time Between Repairs (MTBR) and other KPIs to increase machine availability and reduce unplanned downtime.

Data Management & Connectivity

Truly unified, consistent and validated data across multiple systems for SPC, analytics, AI/ML. Off-the-shelf ERP connectivity. A secure, high throughput, high volume process data connectivity, APIs and access to other data sources. Multi-year storage with high throughput for large amounts of process data, time series data and events.

Performance & Quality Analytics

Mine, processing plant, enterprise analytics in real-time (actual vs targets) - safety, production, operation times, waste, emissions and other KPIs; energy, consumables and other costs. Access to quality data, process trends and alarms to identify and act on root causes of issues and inconsistencies across sites.

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Closing the gap in mining productivity with operational excellence software

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Expert insights and news

Q&A with Jacob Abbott
Productizing interoperability in mining

The complex task of making the technology work across processes, organizations and vendors needs significant leadership
Blog by Rajesh Nandakumar Nair
5 business drivers for adopting digital operations in mining

Translate long-term business goals into realistic operational plans and constantly adapt to changing conditions during the execution.
Demo video and article
Digitalization of short interval control and production scheduling

Want to improve the speed at which mining production can be tracked and automatically matched to expectations?
Blog series by Eduardo Lima
10 Lessons from 10 Years of Remote Operations Centers

Increasing the efficiency and speed at which you identify and respond to changing conditions is at the heart of IROC - supported by OMS.
Webinar on demand with a demo
Transparent mine with next generation Short Interval Control

How auto-scheduling and analytics befriending the algorithms will make the increasingly complex plans manageable and optimized
First published in "International Mining"
5 levels of automation towards autonomous mining of the future

ABB Ability™ Operation Management system and industry expertise to facilitate autonomous decision making in real time.

Blog by Marcos Hillal
Digital partnerships: building a bridge from both ends

Digital transformation requires a mindset shift at every level. And no single company can realize the ambitious Industry 4.0 vision alone.
Press release
ABB launches breakthrough digital application for mining

Real-time integration improves coordination between weekly production plans and dynamic situations to maximize profitability

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Visualize actual status, replan in seconds

Enable true IT / OT integration with ISA 95

Optimize real-time work order assignment and tasks

Unite high level planning with low level control

Analyze "what-if" scenarios

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Customer stories

Australia, underground and open pit mines
Gold Fields revolutionizes operations at Granny Smith with ABB's cutting-edge digital platform

“The performance requirements of a software package that exchanges and processes granular events with rich information in real-time, when compared to a software package designed for periodical manual entry, are like comparing chalk and cheese. That’s where ABB plays a big role.”
Sweden, underground mine
Sustainable Intelligent Mining Systems pilot project connects the workforce, activities and equipment in real time

Integrated process control system for automated production scheduling at Boliden: ”We have very high expectations. It will be easier for both mine operations and the operators underground". "Mine operators were able to look ahead and see many use cases and practical applications"
Canada, open pit mine
OMS for Integrated Remote Operations Center project: Ending analysis paralysis with agile co-development

Why does rapid, collaborative development give better results? What makes a successful transformation partnership? The story of OMS co-creation with an ABB customer that provided operation expertise, existing infrastructure and dedicated resources support.

25%


cost savings from integrations

25%


reduction of scheduling time

20%


less personnel overtime annually

What's new in the latest OMS version
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