Metals and Mining

Metals and Mining

The goal for every metals manufacturer and mining company is to reduce scrap and downtime while increasing yield. Gescan offers unique solutions of hardware and software for the metals industry, providing integrated solutions to modernize legacy control systems and optimize processes. Our Modernization and Optimization enabling technology allows metals manufacturers to make better decisions faster, through significantly improved access to data with powerful collection, storage and analysis capabilities.

Proficy HMI/SCADA - CIMPLICITY

CIMPLICITY HMI Plant Edition leverages the latest Web technologies to provide superior human-machine interface (HMI) and SCADA functionality through a client/server architecture and open-system design. This configuration provides you with fast, easy integration, and expansion capabilities. And, with CIMPLICITY WebView, users can access real-time data remotely through Web browsers on the CIMPLICITY viewers located throughout the plant. While CIMPLICITY has built-in user access security features, allowing full control over all operations, including operator setpoint and data visability.

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PACSystems Controllers

Industry leading redundancy and high performance processors make the PACSystems controller a natural choice for metals and mining. A comprehensive suite of I/O modules and high level programming allow for quick time to solution with the flexability you require.

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Proficy Change Management

Proficy Change Management assists in monitoring software and data assets, protecting against device failure or operator error and meeting government regulatory requirements. With Change Management’s centralized storage and client server system, plant information is backed up and available so you can be sure your system is running smoothly and safely.

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Success Stories

  • Alcoa - Aluminerie de Deschambault

    • Aluminum is the most abundant element in the earth’s crust, and with its high strength-to-weight ratio, applications range from the structure of buildings and airplanes to the foil in which we wrap and heat food. Producing consistently high-quality raw aluminum used in the many different objects that we take for granted every day is no simple process. With the help of CIMPLICITY® HMI Plant Edition software and a tightly integrated network of Series 90TM-70 and Series 90-30 PLCs from GE Intelligent Platforms, however, Deschambault’s plant is well-equipped to meet the challenge.

  • Keeping in Control - BMA Saraji Mine

    • Traditionally, BMA Saraji Mine carried out all PLC and SCADA project maintenance manually. Hopefully after a new change had been made and downloaded to the equipment, somebody would save the new copy in the appropriate place. Unfortunately this sometimes would not happen, making it difficult to track changes to projects and keeping the correct copy of those projects.

  • Chaparral Heats Up Manufacturing and On-Time Shipping with Sophisticated Automation at Virginia Plant

    • After a careful review of many solutions, AMI and Chaparral decided to install GE Intelligent Platforms Series 90TM-70 and Series 90-30 PLCs, Genius® I/O and CIMPLICITY®* human machine interface (HMI) software – which ensured high reliability as well as tight integration with GE drive systems.

  • GE Intelligent Platforms Controls Cut Steel Mill Downtime During Caster Retrofit

    • Staying competitive in the steel casting industry means keeping up with the latest in automation technology. These systems provide faster, safer, and more efficient casting for improved productivity. However, acquiring automation technology often requires a retrofit, which typically takes three months per machine at a lost production cost of about $1,000 per minute. Fortunately, technologies such as decentralized I/O and controls have simplified and accelerated the retrofit process.

  • Rio Tinto Keeps on Digging with RFID Enabled Maintenance Asset Tracking

    • Rio Tinto, the world’s largest mining company, must keep a fleet of huge mining equipment running reliably. Downtime and repeat maintenance due to errors in the harsh outdoor environment of an open pit coal mine were costing them time and money.

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