South Africa, Johannesburg, 23 March 2023 – Digital Industries (DI) through its business unit Industry Software Solutions and Support (IS³), announced that it has become an AVEVA Select partner for the East and West Africa regions. AVEVA Select partnership allows Digital Industries to deliver AVEVA’s full portfolio of leading-edge industrial software solutions to customers that will help them become more sustainable and profitable.

The AVEVA Select agreement has set specific strategic intent to support customers’ requirements for improving operational efficiency, driving better returns and increasing the sustainability of their businesses. A people-based ecosystem driving digital transformation is the key enabler to achieving these strategic objectives on the African continent. DI will expand its ecosystem of customers and partners who want to adopt technologies to enable their digital transformation. Leveraging existing indigenous knowledge and skills and creating new skills pools is the key differentiator.

In East Africa, the regional footprint will be led by Kenyan operations AVEVA Select East Africa and the Nigerian representative offices AVEVA Select West Africa will take on a similar role in West Africa. Both these operations are also investing heavily in establishing training and demonstration centres to build these skills pools and to equip system integrators, partner companies and end-users with skills to enable them to maximize the use of the technology and to customize the service offerings available.

The coveted ‘AVEVA Select Partner’ designation allows distributors to enable customers simplify design, optimize production, and maximize performance. By leveraging the breadth of the AVEVA software portfolio, AVEVA Select partners can take advantage of programs designed to suit every product and solution specialization in the engineering and industrial segments. The AVEVA Select Program offers an effective way for partners to penetrate new markets and build upon existing solutions and local relationships.

The AVEVA Select partnership has accelerated the value that DI can provide, empowering their customers and partners to optimize engineering, operations, and asset performance. A common digital thread across all enterprise pillars is enabling a new level of Performance Intelligence using bedrock technologies from Artificial Intelligence (AI), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), big data to the cloud and hybrid solutions.

With AVEVA’s Engineering solutions, they can assist customers in efficiently delivering capital projects on time and within budget. The AVEVA Operations suite eliminates supply chain value leaks while improving operational efficiency and enhancing collaboration. DI can also empower customers and partners to balance operating expenses and risk to optimize performance with AVEVA Asset Performance Management.

“Digital Industries’ customers and partners will continue to get the same dedicated local support, now with the added value of wider access to AVEVA’s complete portfolio of solutions, which enables a new level of Performance Intelligence using technologies such as AI, IIoT, big data and cloud. The AVEVA Select program helps our distributors to deliver even more value and support their customers digital transformation initiatives,” said Kerry Grimes, AVEVAs Global Head of Partners. “We are pleased to extend Digital Industries coverage as an AVEVA Select partner and look forward to developing and capitalizing on mutually beneficial growth strategies.”

“The Industrial sector in Africa is the final frontier for at scale digital transformation. Leaders in industry are adopting strategies for digital transformation across the continent. The market for industrial software and services is increasing exponentially and growth will be driven by customer value creation. As an AVEVA Select partner, we are on a journey to create sustainable digital champions. We look forward to industrial organizations joining us,” concluded Dion Govender, CEO of Digital Industries and Managing Director of IS³.

For more information visit www.eastafrica.avevaselect.com and www.westafrica.avevaselect.com

-Ends-

About AVEVA Select

The AVEVA Select program is designed for partners with full access to AVEVA’s comprehensive software portfolio, enabling them to help companies accelerate their digital transformation journey. AVEVA Select aligns to both market and technology trends, with programs designed to suit every product and solution specialization in the engineering and industrial segments. By leveraging the breadth of the AVEVA software portfolio, AVEVA Select partners can now help customers simplify design, optimize production, and maximize performance. More at https://www.aveva.com/en/about/partners/aveva-select/

About Digital Industries

Digital Industries is an Operations Technology focused business operating in more than 30 countries in Africa and is a wholly owned subsidiary of listed technology group EOH.

Digital Industries is a leading provider of Operational Technology software, solutions and services. As the sole distributor of the AVEVA portfolio of industrial software solutions, which combined with our extensive experience in the implementation of complex process automation and management systems, we are ideally positioned to provide our clients with integrated, end to end solutions and services.

About AVEVA

AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software, sparking ingenuity to drive responsible use of the world’s resources. The company’s secure industrial cloud platform and applications enable businesses to harness the power of their information and improve collaboration with customers, suppliers and partners.

Over 20,000 enterprises in over 100 countries rely on AVEVA to help them deliver life’s essentials: safe and reliable energy, food, medicines, infrastructure and more. By connecting people with trusted information and AI-enriched insights, AVEVA enables teams to engineer efficiently and optimize operations, driving growth and sustainability.

Named as one of the world’s most innovative companies, AVEVA supports customers with open solutions and the expertise of more than 6,400 employees, 5,000 partners and 5,700 certified developers. With operations around the globe, AVEVA is headquartered in Cambridge, UK. Learn more at www.aveva.com 

Copyright © 2023 AVEVA Solutions Limited. All rights reserved. AVEVA Solutions Limited is owned by AVEVA Group plc. AVEVA, the AVEVA logos and AVEVA product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of AVEVA Group plc or its subsidiaries in the United Kingdom and other countries. Other brands and product- names are the trademarks of their respective companies.

Source to read full article:

• Majorwaves energy report
• Engineering News
• Mining Weekly

The vision of BRMO (Black Rock Mine Operations) is proudly exclaimed in the BRMO Game Plan as the following:
“Together creating prosperity for all stakeholders by responsibly growing our business through pride and innovation”.
Flowing from our vision of innovation a Technology Road Map was developed to guide us on our Digital Transformation journey.

Background

The successful establishment of the BRMO Central Control Room (CCR), as presented at the 2018 X-Change conference, is seen as the first major milestone on our Digitisation journey. The CCR established the technology infrastructure to fulfill current and future technology requirements in terms of networking, processing platforms, high availability of services, and visualisation technology. The CCR integrated available BRMO systems and information sources to provide a holistic view across systems, providing operational staff the necessary tools to enhance real-time decision making.

Business Digitisation Vision

Guided by our Technology Road Map and BRMO vision we identified strategic areas of digitisation. The establishment of the BRMO Integrated Remote Operations Centre (iROC) was identified as one of the strategic digitisation projects. The iROC builds on the infrastructure and goal established in the CCR but now also creates the facility and infrastructure to support the identified and future strategic digitisation areas. Building from the bottom-up with regards to integral flow of data delivering the right data, to the right person at the right time is fundamental in the iROC application. It was designed in such a manner to allow for the foreseeable inclusion of higher level business systems integrated o complete the value stream, future enhancements and continuous improvement initiatives as the journey is not finished. The current phase of the iROC will provide significant benefits to the BRMO business and the following strategic areas will be activated:

1. Multiple Mines, underground and surface processing operations, will be represented in the form of the latests AVEVA OMI solution.
2. All mining areas will be represented in the form of a production system adapted to BRMO specific requirements.
3. The surface ore transport will be represented in the form of a production system adapted to BRMO specific requirements.
4. The final product and load out area will be represented in the form of the latest AVEVA OMI solution.
5. Critical services like fire, water and power will be represented in the form of the latest AVEVA OMI solution.
6. All systems will be integrated into the OMI environment, visualised in the form of Strategic developed business value add KPl’s on a Video Wall, Alarm management and Navigation.
7. AVEVA Work Flow will be commissioned on all workstations.

The Solution

The iROC solution will creates the ability to:

1. Integrate systems and information sources to provide a holistic In-Time view across the value chain.
2. Create Situational Awareness by using integrated data sets and defined business rules, initiating actions that maximises business benefit.
3. Standardise critical workflows to minimise human error and as a result minimise business risk.

The Success

The Business benefits will be:

• By adding the integration of control room operations into the entire mine business value stream, better decision making and operational loss reduction can be achieved.
• Integration of control room operations into the entire mine business value stream will also allow us to visualise impact to business and better manage our mining as well as process operations.
• Machine and people tracking improving both safety and efficiencies.
• Access to more granular information will improve focus on the root causes of problems and variations to which better targeting of corrective actions is possible.
• In-Shift monitoring and control to respond to problems as they occur and minimising deviations to plan, which provides the opportunity to save the shift in the shift.
• Empowering supervision to make more informed decisions to reduce variability.
• Improved equipment utilisation.
• Improved response time to breakdowns implying improved availability.
• Improved mining cycle management implying more effective use of resources both human and machine.
• Improved face utilisation.
• Improved scheduling and planning.
• Platform for continuous improvement and continuous integration of future digital transformation initiatives to the iROC.

South Africa, Johannesburg, 23 March 2023 – Digital Industries (DI) through its business unit Industry Software Solutions and Support (IS³), announced that it has become an AVEVA Select partner for the East and West Africa regions. AVEVA Select partnership allows Digital Industries to deliver AVEVA’s full portfolio of leading-edge industrial software solutions to customers that will help them become more sustainable and profitable.

The AVEVA Select agreement has set specific strategic intent to support customers’ requirements for improving operational efficiency, driving better returns and increasing the sustainability of their businesses. A people-based ecosystem driving digital transformation is the key enabler to achieving these strategic objectives on the African continent. DI will expand its ecosystem of customers and partners who want to adopt technologies to enable their digital transformation. Leveraging existing indigenous knowledge and skills and creating new skills pools is the key differentiator.

In East Africa, the regional footprint will be led by Kenyan operations AVEVA Select East Africa and the Nigerian representative offices AVEVA Select West Africa will take on a similar role in West Africa. Both these operations are also investing heavily in establishing training and demonstration centres to build these skills pools and to equip system integrators, partner companies and end-users with skills to enable them to maximize the use of the technology and to customize the service offerings available.

The coveted ‘AVEVA Select Partner’ designation allows distributors to enable customers simplify design, optimize production, and maximize performance. By leveraging the breadth of the AVEVA software portfolio, AVEVA Select partners can take advantage of programs designed to suit every product and solution specialization in the engineering and industrial segments. The AVEVA Select Program offers an effective way for partners to penetrate new markets and build upon existing solutions and local relationships.

The AVEVA Select partnership has accelerated the value that DI can provide, empowering their customers and partners to optimize engineering, operations, and asset performance. A common digital thread across all enterprise pillars is enabling a new level of Performance Intelligence using bedrock technologies from Artificial Intelligence (AI), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), big data to the cloud and hybrid solutions.

With AVEVA’s Engineering solutions, they can assist customers in efficiently delivering capital projects on time and within budget. The AVEVA Operations suite eliminates supply chain value leaks while improving operational efficiency and enhancing collaboration. DI can also empower customers and partners to balance operating expenses and risk to optimize performance with AVEVA Asset Performance Management.

“Digital Industries’ customers and partners will continue to get the same dedicated local support, now with the added value of wider access to AVEVA’s complete portfolio of solutions, which enables a new level of Performance Intelligence using technologies such as AI, IIoT, big data and cloud. The AVEVA Select program helps our distributors to deliver even more value and support their customers digital transformation initiatives,” said Kerry Grimes, AVEVAs Global Head of Partners. “We are pleased to extend Digital Industries coverage as an AVEVA Select partner and look forward to developing and capitalizing on mutually beneficial growth strategies.”

“The Industrial sector in Africa is the final frontier for at scale digital transformation. Leaders in industry are adopting strategies for digital transformation across the continent. The market for industrial software and services is increasing exponentially and growth will be driven by customer value creation. As an AVEVA Select partner, we are on a journey to create sustainable digital champions. We look forward to industrial organizations joining us,” concluded Dion Govender, CEO of Digital Industries and Managing Director of IS³.

For more information visit www.eastafrica.avevaselect.com and www.westafrica.avevaselect.com

-Ends-

About AVEVA Select

The AVEVA Select program is designed for partners with full access to AVEVA’s comprehensive software portfolio, enabling them to help companies accelerate their digital transformation journey. AVEVA Select aligns to both market and technology trends, with programs designed to suit every product and solution specialization in the engineering and industrial segments. By leveraging the breadth of the AVEVA software portfolio, AVEVA Select partners can now help customers simplify design, optimize production, and maximize performance. More at https://www.aveva.com/en/about/partners/aveva-select/

About Digital Industries

Digital Industries is an Operations Technology focused business operating in more than 30 countries in Africa and is a wholly owned subsidiary of listed technology group EOH.

Digital Industries is a leading provider of Operational Technology software, solutions and services. As the sole distributor of the AVEVA portfolio of industrial software solutions, which combined with our extensive experience in the implementation of complex process automation and management systems, we are ideally positioned to provide our clients with integrated, end to end solutions and services.

About AVEVA

AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software, sparking ingenuity to drive responsible use of the world’s resources. The company’s secure industrial cloud platform and applications enable businesses to harness the power of their information and improve collaboration with customers, suppliers and partners.

Over 20,000 enterprises in over 100 countries rely on AVEVA to help them deliver life’s essentials: safe and reliable energy, food, medicines, infrastructure and more. By connecting people with trusted information and AI-enriched insights, AVEVA enables teams to engineer efficiently and optimize operations, driving growth and sustainability.

Named as one of the world’s most innovative companies, AVEVA supports customers with open solutions and the expertise of more than 6,400 employees, 5,000 partners and 5,700 certified developers. With operations around the globe, AVEVA is headquartered in Cambridge, UK. Learn more at www.aveva.com 

Copyright © 2023 AVEVA Solutions Limited. All rights reserved. AVEVA Solutions Limited is owned by AVEVA Group plc. AVEVA, the AVEVA logos and AVEVA product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of AVEVA Group plc or its subsidiaries in the United Kingdom and other countries. Other brands and product- names are the trademarks of their respective companies.

Source to read full article:

• Majorwaves energy report
• Engineering News
• Mining Weekly

South Africa, Johannesburg, 23 March 2023 – Digital Industries (DI) through its business unit Industry Software Solutions and Support (IS³), announced that it has become an AVEVA Select partner for the East and West Africa regions. AVEVA Select partnership allows Digital Industries to deliver AVEVA’s full portfolio of leading-edge industrial software solutions to customers that will help them become more sustainable and profitable.

The AVEVA Select agreement has set specific strategic intent to support customers’ requirements for improving operational efficiency, driving better returns and increasing the sustainability of their businesses. A people-based ecosystem driving digital transformation is the key enabler to achieving these strategic objectives on the African continent. DI will expand its ecosystem of customers and partners who want to adopt technologies to enable their digital transformation. Leveraging existing indigenous knowledge and skills and creating new skills pools is the key differentiator.

In East Africa, the regional footprint will be led by Kenyan operations AVEVA Select East Africa and the Nigerian representative offices AVEVA Select West Africa will take on a similar role in West Africa. Both these operations are also investing heavily in establishing training and demonstration centres to build these skills pools and to equip system integrators, partner companies and end-users with skills to enable them to maximize the use of the technology and to customize the service offerings available.

The coveted ‘AVEVA Select Partner’ designation allows distributors to enable customers simplify design, optimize production, and maximize performance. By leveraging the breadth of the AVEVA software portfolio, AVEVA Select partners can take advantage of programs designed to suit every product and solution specialization in the engineering and industrial segments. The AVEVA Select Program offers an effective way for partners to penetrate new markets and build upon existing solutions and local relationships.

The AVEVA Select partnership has accelerated the value that DI can provide, empowering their customers and partners to optimize engineering, operations, and asset performance. A common digital thread across all enterprise pillars is enabling a new level of Performance Intelligence using bedrock technologies from Artificial Intelligence (AI), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), big data to the cloud and hybrid solutions.

With AVEVA’s Engineering solutions, they can assist customers in efficiently delivering capital projects on time and within budget. The AVEVA Operations suite eliminates supply chain value leaks while improving operational efficiency and enhancing collaboration. DI can also empower customers and partners to balance operating expenses and risk to optimize performance with AVEVA Asset Performance Management.

“Digital Industries’ customers and partners will continue to get the same dedicated local support, now with the added value of wider access to AVEVA’s complete portfolio of solutions, which enables a new level of Performance Intelligence using technologies such as AI, IIoT, big data and cloud. The AVEVA Select program helps our distributors to deliver even more value and support their customers digital transformation initiatives,” said Kerry Grimes, AVEVAs Global Head of Partners. “We are pleased to extend Digital Industries coverage as an AVEVA Select partner and look forward to developing and capitalizing on mutually beneficial growth strategies.”

“The Industrial sector in Africa is the final frontier for at scale digital transformation. Leaders in industry are adopting strategies for digital transformation across the continent. The market for industrial software and services is increasing exponentially and growth will be driven by customer value creation. As an AVEVA Select partner, we are on a journey to create sustainable digital champions. We look forward to industrial organizations joining us,” concluded Dion Govender, CEO of Digital Industries and Managing Director of IS³.

For more information visit www.eastafrica.avevaselect.com and www.westafrica.avevaselect.com

-Ends-

About AVEVA Select

The AVEVA Select program is designed for partners with full access to AVEVA’s comprehensive software portfolio, enabling them to help companies accelerate their digital transformation journey. AVEVA Select aligns to both market and technology trends, with programs designed to suit every product and solution specialization in the engineering and industrial segments. By leveraging the breadth of the AVEVA software portfolio, AVEVA Select partners can now help customers simplify design, optimize production, and maximize performance. More at https://www.aveva.com/en/about/partners/aveva-select/

About Digital Industries

Digital Industries is an Operations Technology focused business operating in more than 30 countries in Africa and is a wholly owned subsidiary of listed technology group EOH.

Digital Industries is a leading provider of Operational Technology software, solutions and services. As the sole distributor of the AVEVA portfolio of industrial software solutions, which combined with our extensive experience in the implementation of complex process automation and management systems, we are ideally positioned to provide our clients with integrated, end to end solutions and services.

About AVEVA

AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software, sparking ingenuity to drive responsible use of the world’s resources. The company’s secure industrial cloud platform and applications enable businesses to harness the power of their information and improve collaboration with customers, suppliers and partners.

Over 20,000 enterprises in over 100 countries rely on AVEVA to help them deliver life’s essentials: safe and reliable energy, food, medicines, infrastructure and more. By connecting people with trusted information and AI-enriched insights, AVEVA enables teams to engineer efficiently and optimize operations, driving growth and sustainability.

Named as one of the world’s most innovative companies, AVEVA supports customers with open solutions and the expertise of more than 6,400 employees, 5,000 partners and 5,700 certified developers. With operations around the globe, AVEVA is headquartered in Cambridge, UK. Learn more at www.aveva.com 

Copyright © 2023 AVEVA Solutions Limited. All rights reserved. AVEVA Solutions Limited is owned by AVEVA Group plc. AVEVA, the AVEVA logos and AVEVA product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of AVEVA Group plc or its subsidiaries in the United Kingdom and other countries. Other brands and product- names are the trademarks of their respective companies.

Source to read full article:

• Majorwaves energy report
• Engineering News
• Mining Weekly

South Africa, Johannesburg, 23 March 2023 – Digital Industries (DI) through its business unit Industry Software Solutions and Support (IS³), announced that it has become an AVEVA Select partner for the East and West Africa regions. AVEVA Select partnership allows Digital Industries to deliver AVEVA’s full portfolio of leading-edge industrial software solutions to customers that will help them become more sustainable and profitable.

The AVEVA Select agreement has set specific strategic intent to support customers’ requirements for improving operational efficiency, driving better returns and increasing the sustainability of their businesses. A people-based ecosystem driving digital transformation is the key enabler to achieving these strategic objectives on the African continent. DI will expand its ecosystem of customers and partners who want to adopt technologies to enable their digital transformation. Leveraging existing indigenous knowledge and skills and creating new skills pools is the key differentiator.

In East Africa, the regional footprint will be led by Kenyan operations AVEVA Select East Africa and the Nigerian representative offices AVEVA Select West Africa will take on a similar role in West Africa. Both these operations are also investing heavily in establishing training and demonstration centres to build these skills pools and to equip system integrators, partner companies and end-users with skills to enable them to maximize the use of the technology and to customize the service offerings available.

The coveted ‘AVEVA Select Partner’ designation allows distributors to enable customers simplify design, optimize production, and maximize performance. By leveraging the breadth of the AVEVA software portfolio, AVEVA Select partners can take advantage of programs designed to suit every product and solution specialization in the engineering and industrial segments. The AVEVA Select Program offers an effective way for partners to penetrate new markets and build upon existing solutions and local relationships.

The AVEVA Select partnership has accelerated the value that DI can provide, empowering their customers and partners to optimize engineering, operations, and asset performance. A common digital thread across all enterprise pillars is enabling a new level of Performance Intelligence using bedrock technologies from Artificial Intelligence (AI), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), big data to the cloud and hybrid solutions.

With AVEVA’s Engineering solutions, they can assist customers in efficiently delivering capital projects on time and within budget. The AVEVA Operations suite eliminates supply chain value leaks while improving operational efficiency and enhancing collaboration. DI can also empower customers and partners to balance operating expenses and risk to optimize performance with AVEVA Asset Performance Management.

“Digital Industries’ customers and partners will continue to get the same dedicated local support, now with the added value of wider access to AVEVA’s complete portfolio of solutions, which enables a new level of Performance Intelligence using technologies such as AI, IIoT, big data and cloud. The AVEVA Select program helps our distributors to deliver even more value and support their customers digital transformation initiatives,” said Kerry Grimes, AVEVAs Global Head of Partners. “We are pleased to extend Digital Industries coverage as an AVEVA Select partner and look forward to developing and capitalizing on mutually beneficial growth strategies.”

“The Industrial sector in Africa is the final frontier for at scale digital transformation. Leaders in industry are adopting strategies for digital transformation across the continent. The market for industrial software and services is increasing exponentially and growth will be driven by customer value creation. As an AVEVA Select partner, we are on a journey to create sustainable digital champions. We look forward to industrial organizations joining us,” concluded Dion Govender, CEO of Digital Industries and Managing Director of IS³.

For more information visit www.eastafrica.avevaselect.com and www.westafrica.avevaselect.com

-Ends-

About AVEVA Select

The AVEVA Select program is designed for partners with full access to AVEVA’s comprehensive software portfolio, enabling them to help companies accelerate their digital transformation journey. AVEVA Select aligns to both market and technology trends, with programs designed to suit every product and solution specialization in the engineering and industrial segments. By leveraging the breadth of the AVEVA software portfolio, AVEVA Select partners can now help customers simplify design, optimize production, and maximize performance. More at https://www.aveva.com/en/about/partners/aveva-select/

About Digital Industries

Digital Industries is an Operations Technology focused business operating in more than 30 countries in Africa and is a wholly owned subsidiary of listed technology group EOH.

Digital Industries is a leading provider of Operational Technology software, solutions and services. As the sole distributor of the AVEVA portfolio of industrial software solutions, which combined with our extensive experience in the implementation of complex process automation and management systems, we are ideally positioned to provide our clients with integrated, end to end solutions and services.

About AVEVA

AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software, sparking ingenuity to drive responsible use of the world’s resources. The company’s secure industrial cloud platform and applications enable businesses to harness the power of their information and improve collaboration with customers, suppliers and partners.

Over 20,000 enterprises in over 100 countries rely on AVEVA to help them deliver life’s essentials: safe and reliable energy, food, medicines, infrastructure and more. By connecting people with trusted information and AI-enriched insights, AVEVA enables teams to engineer efficiently and optimize operations, driving growth and sustainability.

Named as one of the world’s most innovative companies, AVEVA supports customers with open solutions and the expertise of more than 6,400 employees, 5,000 partners and 5,700 certified developers. With operations around the globe, AVEVA is headquartered in Cambridge, UK. Learn more at www.aveva.com 

Copyright © 2023 AVEVA Solutions Limited. All rights reserved. AVEVA Solutions Limited is owned by AVEVA Group plc. AVEVA, the AVEVA logos and AVEVA product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of AVEVA Group plc or its subsidiaries in the United Kingdom and other countries. Other brands and product- names are the trademarks of their respective companies.

Source to read full article:

• Majorwaves energy report
• Engineering News
• Mining Weekly

South Africa, Johannesburg, 23 March 2023 – Digital Industries (DI) through its business unit Industry Software Solutions and Support (IS³), announced that it has become an AVEVA Select partner for the East and West Africa regions. AVEVA Select partnership allows Digital Industries to deliver AVEVA’s full portfolio of leading-edge industrial software solutions to customers that will help them become more sustainable and profitable.

The AVEVA Select agreement has set specific strategic intent to support customers’ requirements for improving operational efficiency, driving better returns and increasing the sustainability of their businesses. A people-based ecosystem driving digital transformation is the key enabler to achieving these strategic objectives on the African continent. DI will expand its ecosystem of customers and partners who want to adopt technologies to enable their digital transformation. Leveraging existing indigenous knowledge and skills and creating new skills pools is the key differentiator.

In East Africa, the regional footprint will be led by Kenyan operations AVEVA Select East Africa and the Nigerian representative offices AVEVA Select West Africa will take on a similar role in West Africa. Both these operations are also investing heavily in establishing training and demonstration centres to build these skills pools and to equip system integrators, partner companies and end-users with skills to enable them to maximize the use of the technology and to customize the service offerings available.

The coveted ‘AVEVA Select Partner’ designation allows distributors to enable customers simplify design, optimize production, and maximize performance. By leveraging the breadth of the AVEVA software portfolio, AVEVA Select partners can take advantage of programs designed to suit every product and solution specialization in the engineering and industrial segments. The AVEVA Select Program offers an effective way for partners to penetrate new markets and build upon existing solutions and local relationships.

The AVEVA Select partnership has accelerated the value that DI can provide, empowering their customers and partners to optimize engineering, operations, and asset performance. A common digital thread across all enterprise pillars is enabling a new level of Performance Intelligence using bedrock technologies from Artificial Intelligence (AI), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), big data to the cloud and hybrid solutions.

With AVEVA’s Engineering solutions, they can assist customers in efficiently delivering capital projects on time and within budget. The AVEVA Operations suite eliminates supply chain value leaks while improving operational efficiency and enhancing collaboration. DI can also empower customers and partners to balance operating expenses and risk to optimize performance with AVEVA Asset Performance Management.

“Digital Industries’ customers and partners will continue to get the same dedicated local support, now with the added value of wider access to AVEVA’s complete portfolio of solutions, which enables a new level of Performance Intelligence using technologies such as AI, IIoT, big data and cloud. The AVEVA Select program helps our distributors to deliver even more value and support their customers digital transformation initiatives,” said Kerry Grimes, AVEVAs Global Head of Partners. “We are pleased to extend Digital Industries coverage as an AVEVA Select partner and look forward to developing and capitalizing on mutually beneficial growth strategies.”

“The Industrial sector in Africa is the final frontier for at scale digital transformation. Leaders in industry are adopting strategies for digital transformation across the continent. The market for industrial software and services is increasing exponentially and growth will be driven by customer value creation. As an AVEVA Select partner, we are on a journey to create sustainable digital champions. We look forward to industrial organizations joining us,” concluded Dion Govender, CEO of Digital Industries and Managing Director of IS³.

For more information visit www.eastafrica.avevaselect.com and www.westafrica.avevaselect.com

-Ends-

About AVEVA Select

The AVEVA Select program is designed for partners with full access to AVEVA’s comprehensive software portfolio, enabling them to help companies accelerate their digital transformation journey. AVEVA Select aligns to both market and technology trends, with programs designed to suit every product and solution specialization in the engineering and industrial segments. By leveraging the breadth of the AVEVA software portfolio, AVEVA Select partners can now help customers simplify design, optimize production, and maximize performance. More at https://www.aveva.com/en/about/partners/aveva-select/

About Digital Industries

Digital Industries is an Operations Technology focused business operating in more than 30 countries in Africa and is a wholly owned subsidiary of listed technology group EOH.

Digital Industries is a leading provider of Operational Technology software, solutions and services. As the sole distributor of the AVEVA portfolio of industrial software solutions, which combined with our extensive experience in the implementation of complex process automation and management systems, we are ideally positioned to provide our clients with integrated, end to end solutions and services.

About AVEVA

AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software, sparking ingenuity to drive responsible use of the world’s resources. The company’s secure industrial cloud platform and applications enable businesses to harness the power of their information and improve collaboration with customers, suppliers and partners.

Over 20,000 enterprises in over 100 countries rely on AVEVA to help them deliver life’s essentials: safe and reliable energy, food, medicines, infrastructure and more. By connecting people with trusted information and AI-enriched insights, AVEVA enables teams to engineer efficiently and optimize operations, driving growth and sustainability.

Named as one of the world’s most innovative companies, AVEVA supports customers with open solutions and the expertise of more than 6,400 employees, 5,000 partners and 5,700 certified developers. With operations around the globe, AVEVA is headquartered in Cambridge, UK. Learn more at www.aveva.com 

Copyright © 2023 AVEVA Solutions Limited. All rights reserved. AVEVA Solutions Limited is owned by AVEVA Group plc. AVEVA, the AVEVA logos and AVEVA product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of AVEVA Group plc or its subsidiaries in the United Kingdom and other countries. Other brands and product- names are the trademarks of their respective companies.

Source to read full article:

• Majorwaves energy report
• Engineering News
• Mining Weekly

The vision of BRMO (Black Rock Mine Operations) is proudly exclaimed in the BRMO Game Plan as the following:
“Together creating prosperity for all stakeholders by responsibly growing our business through pride and innovation”.
Flowing from our vision of innovation a Technology Road Map was developed to guide us on our Digital Transformation journey.

Background

The successful establishment of the BRMO Central Control Room (CCR), as presented at the 2018 X-Change conference, is seen as the first major milestone on our Digitisation journey. The CCR established the technology infrastructure to fulfill current and future technology requirements in terms of networking, processing platforms, high availability of services, and visualisation technology. The CCR integrated available BRMO systems and information sources to provide a holistic view across systems, providing operational staff the necessary tools to enhance real-time decision making.

Business Digitisation Vision

Guided by our Technology Road Map and BRMO vision we identified strategic areas of digitisation. The establishment of the BRMO Integrated Remote Operations Centre (iROC) was identified as one of the strategic digitisation projects. The iROC builds on the infrastructure and goal established in the CCR but now also creates the facility and infrastructure to support the identified and future strategic digitisation areas. Building from the bottom-up with regards to integral flow of data delivering the right data, to the right person at the right time is fundamental in the iROC application. It was designed in such a manner to allow for the foreseeable inclusion of higher level business systems integrated o complete the value stream, future enhancements and continuous improvement initiatives as the journey is not finished. The current phase of the iROC will provide significant benefits to the BRMO business and the following strategic areas will be activated:

1. Multiple Mines, underground and surface processing operations, will be represented in the form of the latests AVEVA OMI solution.
2. All mining areas will be represented in the form of a production system adapted to BRMO specific requirements.
3. The surface ore transport will be represented in the form of a production system adapted to BRMO specific requirements.
4. The final product and load out area will be represented in the form of the latest AVEVA OMI solution.
5. Critical services like fire, water and power will be represented in the form of the latest AVEVA OMI solution.
6. All systems will be integrated into the OMI environment, visualised in the form of Strategic developed business value add KPl’s on a Video Wall, Alarm management and Navigation.
7. AVEVA Work Flow will be commissioned on all workstations.

Goals

• Expert, remote supervision of the mine’s industrial automation infrastructure
• Detection of system issues before they can cause major downtime
• Automatic notification of potential problems
• Maintain system health and performance
• Management of software updates and patches

Solutions and Products

• Sentinel Services
• System Platform
• Historian
• Information Server
• InTouch

Challenges

• Accepting the concept of remote system supervision without jeopardising security

Results

• 24/7/365 proactive system monitoring
• 82% reduction in monthly system issues
• Improved system availability
• Availability of expert resources
• System software is always current
• Maximised asset ROI
• Documented reasons for system improvement
• Peace of mind

Lephalale, Limpopo Province, South Africa

Apart from capable personnel at all levels, Exxaro’s extensive Grootegeluk coal mine relies on a large industrial automation infrastructure to look after and control its complex coal beneficiation processes. But who’s looking after that vital infrastructure?

Background

The complexity and sophistication of supervisory and control systems is growing at a steady rate to keep up with the need for production information and efficiency. At the same time, these systems need access to sensors and instrumentation through equally sophisticated PLCs so that they can log, measure and control events in real time. So we can say without exaggeration that industrial automation and industrial IT is not for the faint-hearted. In fact, a “data processing manager” of the latter half of last century would pale when considering what instrumentation engineers, production managers and others have to deal with today – because even he wouldn’t know what was going on.

That’s why it’s become vital to find people that could integrate production knowledge with system knowledge – such a person is Jacques Jansen, Solution Analyst, Automation, Exxaro Grootegeluk. He makes a point that, although they have a great knowledge of their industrial automation infrastructure (Exxaro implemented their systems with minimal assistance from system integrators), their expertise lies in coal beneficiation and not in the quirks of the latest operating system or monitoring scan overruns.

“One of the biggest problems we have in the automation environment has to do with changes,” says Jansen. “While everything seems to be operating well with a stable system, someone could have justifiably changed a system parameter whose effect isn’t immediately obvious but that eventually results in a problem over time. We don’t have the resources and skills on site to deal with such problems.”

Another change is the issue of system updates where IT personnel would update existing operating systems without regard as to what updates and patches were in place.

“All these changes would slow down the systems and even cause expensive downtime leaving the operators to ask for help,” says Jansen. “We’re looking to expand our operations in the Waterberg but with skills and resources becoming scarcer and technicians stretched to their limit looking after the plant, we decided to look for a proactive system monitoring tool that could detect issues before they cause downtime.”

Implementation
The implementation took place between January and February 2013 and included installing monitoring agents at each key node of the system. The first priority was to establish secure internet remote access through a dedicated port with only one-way traffic. Next on the agenda was a system assessment which included a system health audit followed by recommendations from IS³ and a stabilisation project.

“The system assessment revealed a number of issues such as excessive disc and CPU usage, scan overruns, exceeding best-practice thresholds and several other problems which first had to be addressed before routine monitoring could begin,” says Jansen. “Apart from the real-time alerts from the AVEVA software provided by IS³, we also meet once a month to go through an extensive report not only to discuss what happened but also to look at developments and recommendations as to where we should be heading. This is a very thorough report. We saw problems with the number of alarms operators were required to handle and we even detected an error in the configuration on a virtual machine that caused things to slow down unacceptably. These meetings help us to optimise the software life cycle, upgrade our roadmap for the future and review our alarming and security philosophies.”

Goals

• Expert, remote supervision of the mine’s industrial automation infrastructure
• Detection of system issues before they can cause major downtime
• Automatic notification of potential problems
• Maintain system health and performance
• Management of software updates and patches

Solutions and Products

• Sentinel Services
• System Platform
• Historian
• Information Server
• InTouch

Challenges

• Accepting the concept of remote system supervision without jeopardising security

Results

• 24/7/365 proactive system monitoring
• 82% reduction in monthly system issues
• Improved system availability
• Availability of expert resources
• System software is always current
• Maximised asset ROI
• Documented reasons for system improvement
• Peace of mind

Lephalale, Limpopo Province, South Africa

Apart from capable personnel at all levels, Exxaro’s extensive Grootegeluk coal mine relies on a large industrial automation infrastructure to look after and control its complex coal beneficiation processes. But who’s looking after that vital infrastructure?

Background

The complexity and sophistication of supervisory and control systems is growing at a steady rate to keep up with the need for production information and efficiency. At the same time, these systems need access to sensors and instrumentation through equally sophisticated PLCs so that they can log, measure and control events in real time. So we can say without exaggeration that industrial automation and industrial IT is not for the faint-hearted. In fact, a “data processing manager” of the latter half of last century would pale when considering what instrumentation engineers, production managers and others have to deal with today – because even he wouldn’t know what was going on.

That’s why it’s become vital to find people that could integrate production knowledge with system knowledge – such a person is Jacques Jansen, Solution Analyst, Automation, Exxaro Grootegeluk. He makes a point that, although they have a great knowledge of their industrial automation infrastructure (Exxaro implemented their systems with minimal assistance from system integrators), their expertise lies in coal beneficiation and not in the quirks of the latest operating system or monitoring scan overruns.

“One of the biggest problems we have in the automation environment has to do with changes,” says Jansen. “While everything seems to be operating well with a stable system, someone could have justifiably changed a system parameter whose effect isn’t immediately obvious but that eventually results in a problem over time. We don’t have the resources and skills on site to deal with such problems.”

Another change is the issue of system updates where IT personnel would update existing operating systems without regard as to what updates and patches were in place.

“All these changes would slow down the systems and even cause expensive downtime leaving the operators to ask for help,” says Jansen. “We’re looking to expand our operations in the Waterberg but with skills and resources becoming scarcer and technicians stretched to their limit looking after the plant, we decided to look for a proactive system monitoring tool that could detect issues before they cause downtime.”

Implementation
The implementation took place between January and February 2013 and included installing monitoring agents at each key node of the system. The first priority was to establish secure internet remote access through a dedicated port with only one-way traffic. Next on the agenda was a system assessment which included a system health audit followed by recommendations from IS³ and a stabilisation project.

“The system assessment revealed a number of issues such as excessive disc and CPU usage, scan overruns, exceeding best-practice thresholds and several other problems which first had to be addressed before routine monitoring could begin,” says Jansen. “Apart from the real-time alerts from the AVEVA software provided by IS³, we also meet once a month to go through an extensive report not only to discuss what happened but also to look at developments and recommendations as to where we should be heading. This is a very thorough report. We saw problems with the number of alarms operators were required to handle and we even detected an error in the configuration on a virtual machine that caused things to slow down unacceptably. These meetings help us to optimise the software life cycle, upgrade our roadmap for the future and review our alarming and security philosophies.”

Implementation

Exxaro selected AVEVA-endorsed system integrator Advansys (Pty) Ltd for the project because the company has manufacturing systems experts and, more to the point for this project, business intelligence specialists.

“AVEVA Intelligence provides a dimensioned data model. For example we can reference plant area, material, planned or actual production values and any number of other dimensions. It also has a CSV plug-in which we use to download the daily plan from the mine planning system. But most importantly, it has dashboard-based visual analytical tools which will help personnel design their own reporting dashboards.”

AVEVA Historian

AVEVA Historian is a high speed, high resolution (i.e. < 1 second) and high performance data logger and database that gathers data from sensors, meters and transmitters.

AVEVA Intelligence

AVEVA Intelligence is a “real-time” data warehousing solution (dimensions and measurements). It comprises two distinct components: the first is concerned with data collection and organisation into a dimensioned model and the second is an interactive visualisation and dashboarding tool.

“The Intelligence Analytics Client is essentially the authoring tool for dashboard visualisation. But it’s more than that; it’s a “Self-service” analytical tool that is so powerful that I believe everyone should have it on their desktop. Throw away spreadsheets and put this on your desktop – it’s incredible!” says Welton. “Visual analytics and dashboarding are extremely effective management tools because everyone is looking at the same version of the truth drawn from a single data warehouse. The interactive and visual nature of these dashboards significantly increases the speed and confidence of decision making. This functionality will be exploited in future by connecting AVEVA Intelligence to other data sources such as the AVEVA Performance solution provided by IS³.”

Reports

Reports can also be made available on mobile devices if required:

Benefits

• Greatly improved speed and confidence of near-real-time decision making
• Single version of the truth
• Replaced Excel as a reporting solution
• Independence and ease of use as users can configure their own reports and dashboards – solution is also now used outside of GMEP in most of the Grootegeluk plant
• Collation of data from multiple sources to provide a cohesive and contextual view of production
• “Back fill” capability leverages existing Historian data allowing back-tracking as far as needed
• Validation of all data and the ability to go back in time to correct invalid or missing manual or automatically-derived data

What’s next?  

The success of this project could mean that it will be expanded into the greater Grootegeluk plant. “It can possibly be used beyond production reporting in other areas such as finance or legal compliance with respect to safety and incident reporting,” says Welton. “Anything that is time-based and can be attached to a dimension inside AVEVA Intelligence can be reported with this system.” The next step is to consider Tier 2 which would entail replicating this solution at different mines and processing plants and being able to aggregate all or part of that information for head office to create a divisional reporting solution.