Implementation of the Digital Mine

Siemens Minerals Week - Santiago, July 20th to July 22nd, 2021

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Pictures of the Future for the Mining Industry
Digitalization is a key lever to support the targets of the Mining Industry in 2030

Digitalization is the major key for increasing cost-efficiency and automation

DIGITAL
MINE
of operations and processes in the mining industry, especially in hazardous
and hard to reach environments.
Five fundamental drivers in the Mining Industry

Lower Grade Go deeper HSSE Costs Output

• Continuous decrease • From open pit to • Health, Safety • CAPEX efficiency • Increasing ore
of the average ore underground mine and Security • OPEX reduction recovery
grade • New underground in harsh environment • Asset Efficiency
• Organizations
• Less large high- operation • Awareness of and processes & Reliability
quality deposits environmental care optimization • Production and
• Lack of skilled talents • Standardization Resources efficiency

• Productivity is going down, costs are going up

• Development and commissioning of greenfield or expansion projects need to be accelerated

• Critical equipment has to have highest availability

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Digital Architecture for Mining Enterprise
Empower customers to take right decisions along mining value chain

Enterprise Performance Improvement

predictive decision support and autonomous operation Corporate Systems
resource planning, business intelligence,
executive dashboarding and reporting
Intelligence

Operations Management Level

Infrastructure
material flow simulation, pit-to-port optimization, short
interval control, dynamic planning and execution

Operational Level Enterprise Operations Management

production planning and execution, maintenance mgmt,
process optimization, prescriptive maintenance, asset pit-to-port material tracking, performance analysis, quality mgmt
health analytics, online simulation,
autonomous machine operation

Mining Engineering Mining Operation

integrated engineering, virtual commissioning, long term mine asset condition monitoring, process and machine automation, energy
planning monitoring, fleet dispatching, operational data historian, online ore
quality measurement

Mine Planning and Design Construction and Assembly Commissioning and Start Up
 Digital Transformation in Mining
World today Digitalization Technologies Impacts in Industries

Pandemic Cloud and Edge … global electricity demand and crude oil
-20%
prices reduced by 60% in 2020
Lower consumption Digital Twin
…of businesses will increase remote
Copper price 84% work after COVID-19
Big Data and Internet of
Things
Remote work … of millennials have the budget and
Reliability and operational authority to make enterprise technology
excellence 1/3 purchases of $10,000+. Baby Boomers are
Economic crisis only at 23% and Gen Xers at 27%
Cyber Security
Digitalization … Given the limited options of low-hanging
cost savings in the current downturn,
Generation shift Analytics and AI operators and suppliers are looking
towards digital technologies to realize cost
efficiencies
 Digital Mine Components acc. ISA 88 Part 5
XHQ ▪ Facility Planning
Level 5

Business Dashboard ▪ Cash Management

Enterprise
Management Resource ▪ Asset Management
Planning
▪ Product Management
COMOS MRO COMOS SIMATIC IT Condition
Level 4

Business Planning & Walkinside SIC / MES Monitoring ▪ Plant Production Scheduling
Logistics ▪ Operational Management

Manufacturing SIMIT COMOS

▪ Simulation
Level 3

PQM
Operation Advanced ▪ Advanced Process Control
Process Historian
Management Control Server ▪ Central Historian System

PCS 7 COMOS COMOS PCS 7 VIRTUALIZATION

Level 2

Continous and DCS Process & E&IC MVSCADA

Automation
▪ PCS 7 and COMOS
Discrete Control DSC

Instruments/Sensors/ ▪
Level 1

Smart instruments (e.g.

Actuators smart CCTV)

▪ Original Equipment plus

Level 0

Production Process adaptions to Siemens DCS

(PROFINET)
 COMOS
Maximum productivity for the entire plant lifecycle

Integrated data management worldwide

with COMOS Platform
Consistency

Productivity
Consistent plant engineering
with COMOS Process Profitability

Interoperability

Fast & easy EI&C engineering

Transparency
with COMOS Automation
Efficiency

Quality
Secure asset management
with COMOS Operations
Flexibility

Comprehensive information management

with COMOS Lifecycle
Digital Mine
Comos as the engineering/configuration tool for PCS 7 and SIMIT

Functionalities
• Emulation of controllers
• IO simulation
• Device simulation
• Process Sim. SIMIT PCS 7
Integrated
Device Library for SIMIT Engineering
based on APL CMT Library for PCS 7
based on APL
Data
Model
COMOS

Migration 3rd party data Engineering of DCS hardware Generation of DCS software
• P&ID • Cabinet layout • Control module types
• Loop diagrams • Hardware configuration • Equipment module types / Units
• Instruments • Symbol table • Logics/Interlocks
• Documents • Signal Handling • Signal implementation
• …
Virtual Commissioning

Low
Fidelity of Simulation

Low Fidelity
Simulation

High Fidelity
Simulation

High

Configuration Site
XHQ

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SIMATIC IT / MES

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 Contact
Published by Siemens 2021

Eduard Wedel Roland Ehrl

Head of Process Control and Dig. Solutions Executive Vice President

LDA AM RC-CL LDA SO Minerals

Cerro El Plomo 6000 Schuhstr. 60

7550000 Santiago 91052 Erlangen
Chile Germany
Phone +56 9 34576636 +49 9131 17 40537
E-mail eduard.wedel@siemens.com roland.ehrl@siemens.com

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