Metso launches digital solutions for mining customers

Metso said its new digital solutions further strengthen the Metso Digital portfolio, which is built around four key areas of operation: Plant Planning, Production Planning, Equipment Performance and Process Performance. (Photo: Metso)

“Mining companies are under constant pressure to increase production, improve safety and get more value from existing operations,” said Arttu-Matti Matinlauri, vice president, Minerals Digital at Metso, headquartered in Espoo, Finland. “Our new digital solutions help customers identify issues earlier, understand what is happening in their process and act faster in an optimized manner. Whether the goal is to increase throughput and recovery or strengthen operational safety, we help customers turn operational data into practical improvements that deliver measurable results,” 

The company’s digital solutions leverage AI and advanced analytics to help customers optimize production decisions with intelligent recommendations, uncover improvement opportunities hidden in operational data, and transform safety observations into proactive action.

The company said the products draw on its decades of experience in minerals processing, from crushing, screening, grinding and flotation to dewatering, tailings management and aftermarket support.

• Metso Digital Production Management helps operations respond faster to changing ore characteristics, process conditions and operational constraints, said the company. The solution rapidly generates accurate production plans based on site-specific targets and constraints, reducing the need for hours of scenario simulations to be able to identify optimal operating settings. By combining planning data, operational information and simulation models, it automatically evaluates alternative production scenarios and recommends optimized actions that support objectives such as higher throughput, improved recovery, increased reliability or balanced production and maintenance priorities.
• Metso Data-driven Performance Analytics is a continuous, Metso expert-led service that evaluates how equipment is used in operation and how effectively they perform as part of a specific process. Service provides daily asset and process performance monitoring, identifies performance gaps and bottlenecks, and prioritizes and communicates continuous improvement actions for sustained operational results. This enables higher throughput, improved recovery and a more consistent operational performance. The service is provided by Metso Performance Centers, which deliver also Data-driven Condition Monitoring services for Metso customers globally.
• Metso Safety Performance Platform helps organizations strengthen workplace safety by making it easier for employees and contractors to report risks, incidents, near misses and best practices from any device, said the company. AI-assisted reporting drives greater workforce engagement, improves data quality and consistency, and helps organizations identify risks earlier. Real-time dashboards, trend analysis, easy risk hotspot identification on a map, and AI-powered recommendations turn safety data into actionable insights that support incident prevention and continuous improvement.

The new digital solutions strengthen the Metso Digital portfolio, which the company said is built around four key areas of operation: Plant Planning, Production Planning, Equipment Performance and Process Performance. Together, the company said these areas help customers optimize plant design, production planning, asset performance and process efficiency across the minerals processing value chain.

The company’s latest digital solutions were commercially launched on September 10.