SOFTWARE: StruxureWare promises up to 30% in energy savings

RALEIGH, North Carolina - Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, has released StruxureWare for Mining, Minerals and Metals, a comprehensive suite of applications that optimizes production operations to reduce costs and improve sustainability within the mining, minerals and metals operation.

The new StruxureWare suite integrates process control, operations management and energy management to allow customers to gain actionable insight into the entire operation. With the ability to manage and analyze data generated in real time, customers are can reduce operation costs and waste and increase safety, while monitoring their energy usage. The software also provides supply chain benefits by optimizing plans and scheduling, identifying risks and deviations, and pinpointing inefficiency.

Reduces energy consumption by 30%

The new StruxureWare suite increases energy efficiency by combining energy and production data to allow operations and energy managers to work together to optimize operational demands and energy and water consumption to reduce costs. In addition, it provides visibility into enterprise and supply chain performance and analyzes results over time to identify areas for improvement – maximizing the return on precious resources in the volatile commodity market and increasing overall sustainability.

Maximizes business performance

Additionally, insights gleaned from the software applications increase productivity by as much as 20%. The integrated software improves production operations to maximize asset performance. Asset performance gains allow mine production managers to conserve resources from the mine to processing to the end user.

Open and scalable solution

Completely open and scalable, the software expands as an operation grows, reducing total cost of ownership and allowing users to invest effectively in new technology for a competitive advantage. The 'plug and play' design ensures a seamless integration of applications and the open architecture allows StruxureWare applications to work with virtually any software, hardware, or system.

The StruxureWare for Mining, Minerals and Metals suite consists of the following software applications:

• Resource Advisor: tracks and manages the enterprise's energy and
• carbon costs
• Energy Operation: transforms data into essential energy
• information and reduces operating cost
• Plant Operation: combines energy and process data to get
• visibility into asset performance to identify areas for improvement
• Supply Chain Operation: optimizes the supply chain to maximize
• return on resources
• Power Monitoring Expert: collects and organizes data from the
• enterprise's electrical network
• PowerSCADA Expert: manages the power network based on telemetry
• systems that transform data into useful information
• Process Expert: integrates application control and supervision
• into a single environment

Schneider Electric currently offers StruxureWare for Data Centers, Water, Healthcare and Food & Beverage as well as for the mineral industry.

For more information on Schneider Electric's StruxureWare for Mining Minerals and Metals suite, please click here to be taken to the company's website.