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which excavates and produces 3.6 million tons of iron and manganese ore per year across its three separate mine shafts in South Africa .
Using a suite of centralised Aveva mining processes , including System Platform with Historian and OMI video wall visualisation , BRMO recorded nearly double-digit growth in productivity and improved in-shift reporting from less than 50 % to a sustained 90 %, as well as a significant increase in uptime and improved health and safety metrics .
Another great example is with Barrick Gold , one of the largest gold mining companies in the world . Barrick Gold Nevada ’ s Goldstrike mine implemented environmental compliancy rules in their real-time operational data platform to help their operations team cope with the challenge they had following an expansion project .
This actually helped Barrick reduce environmental deviations by 45 % which represents a great improvement in terms of corporate social responsibility . In summary , operational data management and optimisation software solutions that are used in a digital transformation journey can lead to significant improvements in terms of sustainability . This represents a major Business Transformation and the best companies succeeding in this journey are doing it in a step-by-step approach . •
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Martin Provencher , Industry Principal , Mining , Metals and Materials , AVEVA
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