South32 Worsley Alumina, Australia
Worsley Alumina mine bauxite in the South West of Australia and transport it on an overland conveyor belt to a refinery where the bauxite is turned into white alumina powder. The alumina is then transported to smelters around the world.
Worsley Alumina is one of the largest and lowest-cost alumina producers in the world.
The challenge
South32 required an interoperable and sustainable technical data management platform for their Worsley Alumina mine and refinery. They needed to connect all technical data, enabling the data to be managed, auditable and available for more effective use and for technical people to find the information they need to perform their work more easily and efficiently.
The solution in 3 simple steps
CLS360 was installed to provide structure and business rules for Worsley’s technical data for both mines, refinery and resource assets, preparing the facility for operational readiness, including all supporting digital data content and documents to conform to the required standards.
PIM360 was implemented, based on the structure created in CLS360 with all Worsley mine technical data being imported from multiple applications and documents, including applications such as SAP, Vault, SharePoint and multiple design tools.
All data was then shared via online reports and dashboards. Data was immediately available once approved by stakeholders.
Datum360 is providing us with a solution to integrate diverse sources of technical information. It will assist our technical people to find the information they need to perform their work more easily and efficiently.
Results
- Sustainable data – supporting generation of engineering deliverables, such as 2D drawings, exploded parts views, materials lists, task simulations and sequencing etc.
- Quality assurance – change control of all added data and subsequent editing. Full audit record of any changes data.
- More efficient data processing - no transfer of data using ASCII files, no reformatting or transcribing of data.
- Measurement – Data can be measured for completeness and any duplicated data identified before being accepted into business rules defined in CLS360.
- Improved planning – PIM360 allows planners and schedulers better insight for planning of shutdowns.
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