Quebec Iron Ore

Quebec Iron Ore digitally transformed its mining operations to improve asset reliability and achieve complete pit-to-port visualization with AVEVA solutions.

Goals

• Reduce reaction times from event to resolution
• Create a robust data architecture to collect, visualize, and analyze operations and asset data
• Increase real-time visibility of pit-to-port operations

Challenges

• The company lacked data management capabilities to efficiently generate business and operational reports
• Phase II of the expansion required greater asset reliability and availability
• Ore lacked traceability after leaving the mine

AVEVA Solutions

• AVEVA™ PI System™
• AVEVA™ Operations Control
• AVEVA™ Predictive Analytics

Results

• Teams can perform their own analysis and generate more detailed reports
• Real-time asset analysis tools made assets more reliable for the phase II expansion
• Unified data management tools provide the data foundation to achieve complete pit-to-port visualization

Having a solid data foundation improves the availability of our data and gives operators the power to visualize the analytics.”