Schneider Electric Integrated Planning and Optimisation Solution

Schneider Electric has launched the Integrated Planning and Optimisation Solution, designed to provide mining companies with an integrated software solution that manages their entire mining operation from resource to market. The product enables mining companies to optimise plans and schedules, identify risks and deviations, pinpoint inefficiency and present the right information to the right people at the right time. It is said to increase mining productivity by up to 20% by helping mining companies use information to drive operational efficiencies.

The software helps mining companies collect, integrate and analyse information across their production environments to gain a comprehensive view of their operations and address the challenges of siloed data and inaccurate and untimely information. It enables data to be leveraged to model the supply chain to predict how each entity in the value chain will operate. It then lets companies view their supply chains both as discrete components and as a single system that operates according to unified objectives and metrics. The software uses data analysis of contextual process information to improve predictive maintenance and identify and resolve bottlenecks.

The product uses the company’s StruxureWare for Mining, Minerals, and Metals (MMM) software, a scalable platform that includes solutions for energy management and asset performance. The platform ensures ease of integration for new functionalities as needed. It also leverages the company’s consulting, partner and complementary component services.