The pressure is on miners to increase productivity while limiting environmental impact. Our Asset Optimisation services help you get more from your machinery, combining expertise, data and advanced digital solutions to enhance mineral recovery, improve throughput and reduce energy consumption.
End-to-end solutions to improve operational efficiency
FLS experts will evaluate your process and pair this data with your current operating data to complete a comprehensive analysis of your operation.
With the audit in hand, we’ll come together to discuss your goals and review the opportunities we’ve uncovered.
Based on your goals and our discovery, we’ll recommend solutions that provide the quickest route to greater efficiency with maximum value.
After we’ve agreed on a way forward, we’ll provide installation and start-up supervision for our sensors and/or our APC, plus training to ensure a smooth handover. We’ll also monitor start-up and do all the fine tuning to provide a solution that increases productivity in a safe, consistent and holistic manner.
After the testing phase is complete, we’ll continue to support you to make sure you’re seeing the expected results in the timeline defined. If further optimisation opportunities are identified, we’ll bring them to your attention so you can decide whether to pursue them.
FAQs for Asset Optimisation services
Our Asset Optimisation services employ advanced, digitally-enabled solutions to help you increase productivity. For example, you can achieve a 3 – 6% increase in mill throughput by implementing LoadIQ® and a 2% increase in mineral recovery in your flotation circuit using PlantVision froth cameras plus advanced process control.
With Asset Optimisation services, we’re taking a deep dive into your process and discovering how all the inputs interrelate. This gives us – and you – a more comprehensive understanding of what is going on in your process and how it can be improved. It might be that changes to operating parameters are enough to generate a performance improvement, or we might recommend physical upgrades to your assets to get even more performance. This can be achieved by our upgrade and rebuilds business lines, for example.
Process optimisation isn’t just about producing more – it's also about using less. Less energy. Less flocculant. Less water. And by stabilising asset performance and implementing advanced process control solutions, you can also reduce wear and tear, experience fewer shutdowns and spend less money on wear and consumables.
With advanced process control, we not only see economic gains in many areas of the concentrator, we also see the impact on sustainability. One great example is APC for the thickeners. By controlling the inventory, clear water level, flocculant addition, among other parameters, we can increase the recovery of water and decrease the consumption of reagents. This is difficult for an operator to accomplish because there are so many variables to attend to at the same time, but with Advanced Process Control this can be done all day without a sweat! This strategy is great for the environment and for communities where water is a scarce resource.