Matrikon - Operational Excellence Solutions for the Mining Industry

In today's competitive global environment, where commodity prices fluctuate, equipment costs remain high and expertise is diminishing, organizations are required to extract more value from their mining assets and processes. Matrikon software can help your business improve asset reliability, optimize process performance and better manage production of your mining operation.

Matrikon Solutions will improve asset reliability, optimize process performance and better manage production of your mining operation.

Matrikon Solutions will:

• Reduce costs and improve your operating margins
• Track material through your mining value chain
• Improve asset availability, utilization and effectiveness
• Ensure safety and regulatory compliance

MINING ASSET EFFECTIVENESS - SECURITY. RELIABILITY. PERFORMANCE.

Monitor, enhance and maintain the performance of your critical mining assets. Predict failures and disruptions, plan and achieve optimized maintenance and ensure the availability and integrity of all assets and processes.

• Significantly extend mining equipment life with Matrikon™ Mobile Equipment Monitor
• Enable condition-based maintenance and identify under-performing assets with Matrikon Equipment Condition Monitor
• Maintain and improve product quality with Matrikon™ Process Performance Monitor
• Identify missed opportunities and reduce production downtime with Matrikon™ Downtime Reporter
• Manage your mines process control security with Matrikon Network Security Manager

MINING OPERATIONS OPTIMISATION – MONITORING. REPORTING. COMPLIANCE.

Address the day to day activities of mining operations. Monitor and analyse the performance of control systems, manage and rationalize alarms, visualize and gain insight into processes and easily log operations.

• Improve and sustain control performance and reduce variability with Matrikon™ Control Performance Monitor
• Optimize alarm system performance and easily manage and rationalize all your alarms with Matrikon™ Alarm Manager
• Capture operational knowledge and gain insight into the state of plant operations with Matrikon™ Operations Logbook
• Access all your data, regardless of location or format with real-time web-based data visualization with Matrikon™ Operational Insight

MATRIKON™ MINE TO PORT – PLANNING. LOGISTICS. EXECUTION.

Companies that mine, process, stockpile and sell bulk materials, base and precious metals need real-time visibility into their supply chain. Capture the knowledge of your operation and act in a predictive, rather than reactive, manner with Matrikon Mine to Port, which integrates and presents data from all operational systems regardless of vendor to transform data into operational intelligence. Applications include:

• Production planning and scheduling
• Mine source management
• Inventory management
• Movement management
• Train management
• Shipping management
• Reconciliation and mass balancing
• Plant information management
• Equipment specification data management and reporting
• ERP integration

INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION AND OPTIMISATION SERVICES

Matrikon has been implementing comprehensive automation solutions to the mining industry for more than 20 years. Our depth of expertise allows us to successfully meet and exceed automation requirements for electrical, instrumentation and control.

SCOPING STUDIES AND PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING

We take our automation and control design, implementation, commissioning and support experience to deliver comprehensive and workable scoping studies and preliminary engineering for our mining clients.

STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT AND PROVISION

Development and provision of standards for documentation (e.g. functional specifications), DCS and PLC programming, HMI and SCADA development, communication networks and technology (including OPC), electrical and instrumentation systems and alarm management.

AUTOMATION, INSTRUMENTATION AND ELECTRICAL SYSTEM VENDOR INDEPENDENCE

Matrikon has worked with virtually every major automation, instrumentation and electrical system vendor including companies such as ABB, Siemens, GE, Schneider Electric, Honeywell, Emerson, Rockwell, Endress & Hauser, Yokogawa and Invensys.

PLANT OPTIMISATION

Plant optimisation services include control loop design, tuning and optimisation, control performance monitoring, alarm system performance analysis and improvement, advanced data analysis and dynamic process control simulation and testing.

INSTRUMENT AND CONTROL SYSTEM ENGINEERS

Matrikon has certified functional safety engineers and a large team of instrument and control system engineers that will review your safety systems including design documentation, undertake safety systems design and implementation to AS61508 and AS61511 and machinery safeguarding standard AS4024 and co-ordinate and undertake CHAZOP studies.

TRAIN LOADING SYSTEMS

Matrikon has been extensively involved in the automation of train loading systems. Our experience extends to batch, volumetric and mass loading system automation. Matrikon also has considerable experience in train speed indication (TSI) systems design and implementation.