Enterprise Manufacturing Services to enhance Energy effectiveness and Sustainability Management at Anglo American Platinum

Large Metallurgical Complexes are large users of Energy, Water and Assets. There are 1000 thousands of meters to manage the information at the local and enterprise level. To improve the effectiveness of energy and assets the quality of the data and events, it becomes a paramount for real time operational management. The lack of resources at the local operations and at the enterprise to process the sea of information becomes impossible and many projects have failed. As such, a novel approach for implementation of continuous improvements at the local level and innovations at the strategic level was implemented at all operating plants at AngloPlats. The new capability of an enterprise real time monitoring and diagnosis software infrastructure was available to implement many business strategies in tandem. As such, asset monitoring, energy, production and process control management was implemented in an integrated approach reusing the same data but with different context and time horizons to have standard methodology for local root cause analysis. At the same time, real manufacturing services to support operations and keep the continuous improvement and innovations found as new opportunities at the enterprise are found in industry. This paper will highlight the required computer architecture, data hierarchies’ approaches for adaptive reporting, condition based event management and notifications. The results based on the integrated and collaborative team efforts will be presented. PI System for a targeted reduction in energy consumption of 15% by 2014.