The customer was also provided a lifecycle estimation report presenting the achieved environmental and social sustainability improvements to increase transparency of the footprint of the gold produced.Ī year later, one of the field service engineers had a teenage daughter desperately in need of a new mobile phone. The last phase of the on-site work was an introduction to the new equipment and hands-on virtual experience training for the gold mining company’s employees. Operations required a huge container of tools and gear shipped to the site. As a result, some parts had to be modified and some old equipment needed to be replaced with new ones. They made some tests and sent data to the back-office to be analyzed against plant performance models. It all started with arriving at site to identify the worst effecting issues. It was time for the mine hackers to step in. The plant was in need of a big shutdown to get back up in performance but this was not an option as it would halt the production for a long period. This lead to the suboptimal performance of the plant, which was not sustainable neither economically nor environmentally. Equipment was nor performing well, rusting was causing break-downs and quality of the raw material had changed dramatically. They had run their mine for some 10 years, but the mine’s efficiency had decreased.
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