The global mining industry faces major challenges, while needing to meet mounting stakeholder expectations. In order to stay competitive, companies have to become leaner, stronger, and more innovative. In this context, digitalisation plays a crucial role by offering new possibilities to increase productivity – and operational excellence.
As a provider of efficient, sustainable and class-leading equipment to mining companies in Africa, Siemens offers solutions tailored to the region’s needs. To present the comprehensive and integrated solutions in its mining portfolio, the company recently hosted a Mining Technology day for its customers, featuring a delegation of leading global and local business and technical experts.
Siemens clients enjoyed the presentation at the Siemens Mining Technology Day.
Representing the Chamber or Mines, Sietse van der Woude, head of modernisation and safety, delivered the keynote address and provided an insight to the Chamber’s strategic collaboration on mine modernisation and the impact of future technologies.
Siemens’ CEO for Southern and Eastern Africa, Sabine Dall ‘Omo, commented: “We are proud to be directly involved in the South African mining sector. Our customers are using Siemens automation and drives technology to make mining safer, increase productivity and improve efficiency. In 2014, our technology enabled R140 billion of value by helping customers to move 175 million tons of material in key sectors like platinum, gold, diamonds, coal and iron ore.”
Digitalisation in mining
Siemens creates sustainable value for its customers in the mining industry by optimising plant efficiency, and digitalisation can help the minerals sector tackle major challenges like productivity improvement. Digitalisation is one of the levers that Siemens offers its mining customers for mastering challenges such as the need to increase productivity.
To drive the progress of efficient and sustainable mines, the company offers proven digitalisation solutions such as: an industry-specific process control system for comprehensive automation (MinAS); an engineering tool for effective plant management (Comos); and a platform for aggregating, relating and presenting operational and business data for analysis (XHQ).
Siemens has been active in SA mining since 1897, and today much of the industry depends on it for innovative drive, automation and electrical technology for everything from extraction to transportation and beneficiation.
For more information contact Jennifer Naidoo, Siemens Digital Factory and Process Industries and Drives, +27 (0)11 652 2795, [email protected], www.siemens.co.za
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