CIMIC Group’s minerals processing company, Sedgman developed the innovative SEDGMETRIX Platform.
Sedgman’s SEDGMETRIX Platform and team of more than 50 remote operational engineering personnel ensure advanced remote monitoring of plants located around the world.
The SEDGMETRIX Platform is an internet of things (IoT) ecosystem of tools designed to connect people to their operation and provide a higher level of transparency on operational performance. By uploading site data into the cloud, it is used to remotely monitor and help optimise the performance of any operation or asset.
Challenge
Reliable highspeed access to plant operating data is key to timely complex analysis and interrogation. Prompt action on adverse plant operating conditions prevents unplanned equipment failure which would otherwise impact production.
Our challenge was how to help our remote support teams better monitor mineral processing operations and action real-time operational data.
Solution
SEDGMETRIX is a commodity agnostic platform that adds value by increasing visibility and improving response time, inefficiencies can be addressed preventing extended losses in asset productivity and revenue.
SEDGMETRIX is more than a web-based data visualisation platform, with 24-hour automated monitoring software detecting abnormal asset performance and sending a notification to the responsible person.
Machine learning and predictive models developed by Sedgman technical experts and data scientists continuously improve the system to identify unique asset issues. As a result, SEDGMETRIX provides peace of mind and time saving on manual and periodic performance checks and reduces the need for site support engineers to travel to site as often.
Features
The SEDGMETRIX Platform provides the following features and services:
- Asset health monitoring – Continuous cloud monitoring and alerting application. Advanced cloud analytics platform ingests asset trend data for live process abnormality detection, condition monitoring and predictive maintenance modelling. Notifications on critical issues sent to responsible site personnel.
- Live dashboards – Asset status dashboards for real-time feedback in the palm of your hand.
- Performance reporting – Reports on production, reliability, process, condition monitoring and other key performance indicator data.
- Historian – Web-historian for data storage and trending/interrogation.
- Digital twin – Operational and supply-chain digital models for scenario and live optimisation simulations.
- Technical support services – Extension of asset health monitoring, equipment failure root cause analysis (RCA) and process modelling undertaken by Sedgman technical experts and updated models applied to asset as they become available (continuous system improvement).
- Expert on-call – Site personnel can communicate from the field with remote Sedgman technical experts by wearing intelligent audio/video wearables to troubleshoot plant issues.
Benefits
SEDGMETRIX provides owners, operators, and contractors with transparency on the current state of their asset, and asset-critical data to ensure informed decisions can be made in a timely manner.
Effective integration of the SEDGMETRIX platform into asset operations can provide both operational and sustainability improvements.
When implemented at large-scale renewable assets, SEDGMETRIX provides monitoring and controlling to generate effective visualisations and representations of KPIs.
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