Talison Lithium boosts competitiveness and streamlines its operations, processes and facilitates the transfer of knowledge
Talison Lithium Australia Pty Ltd (Talison Lithium) is a West Australian based mining company formed in 2009.
We are a private company now owned by joint venture partners Tianqi Lithium Corporation / IGO Limited JV (51%) and Albemarle Corporation (49%).
Talison Lithium and its predecessor companies have been producing lithium minerals from the Greenbushes Lithium operations since 1983 and the Greenbushes area is recognised as the longest continuously operated mining area in Western Australia (circa 1888).
The mining and processing operations at Greenbushes have been upgraded and expanded over the decades to increase production and incorporate new technologies as demand for lithium minerals has grown.
Many of the senior management team and employees at Talison LIthium have been working at the Greenbushes mining operations for 20 to 30 years ensuring continuity and long- standing relationships with stakeholders including customers and the local communities surrounding the mining operations
Goals
- Shift 'institutional knowledge‘ from a handful of team members to an accessible, real-time database.
- Achieve ongoing measurement, analysis and reporting of production losses due to equipment utilization.
- Automatically capture production stoppages and rate loss events, affecting product output at the plant level.
- Provide the capability to perform root-cause analysis, identify process bottlenecks, enable process improvements and improve KPI logging.
- Maximize plant uptime.
Challenges
- Achieving the appropriate level of automated data capture at the instrumentation and data collection layers.
- Standardizing the Time Usage Model (TUM), equipment types, cause and effect classification model for the crushing, technical grade and chemical grade plants.
- Standardizing KPI calculations, enabling consistent calculations across the three plants.
Solutions
- AVEVA™ AVEVA Production Management system
- AVEVA™ Historian
- AVEVA consulting services, project design, implementation, training and support
Results
- Intuitive end-user experience blends contextual data from plant operators, engineers and metallurgists with historical performance information in a combined interface.
- Exposes the process constraints (bottlenecks).
- Provides clear root cause analysis and through moving tags into AVEVA Production Management, the team accelerated analysis process by 50% and improved accuracy using automated digital systems.
- AVEVA Production Management reports now form the basis of plant process and maintenance performance KPIs, which are used for daily reporting purposes.
“AVEVA Production Management enabled us to optimize our entire plant performance. By identifying and analyzing repeated small downtimeevents, we could build up a clear view of our daily and weekly performance. This enabled us to identify and swiftly resolve longstanding challenges, moving to secure production and boost performance of the whole plant.”
Talison Executive
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