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Metals and mining operators are under immense pressure to extract ore more safely and sustainably and with minimal environmental impact, and are dealing with challenges like declining ore quality, rising energy costs, production efficiency, skills shortages and more.

Advanced new edge controller technology offers new solutions to help them address these issues and solve key problems, but with everyone talking about edge technology, there are a lot of misconceptions and a lot of questions. If you already use PLCs, do you need edge controllers? How do edge gateways and edge controllers differ? Can edge technology really deliver on all the hype and unlock all the benefits that are being promised?

A new webinar, “Edge Controllers Enable Digital Transformation in the Metals and Mining Industry,” now available on demand, will help answer these questions and provide use cases on how Emerson edge controller technology can help overcome critical challenges in metals and mining applications, including:

• Challenges in material handling systems:
  • Downtime is costly and negatively impacts asset utilization
  • Harsh environments make it difficult to ensure mine equipment operates safely and efficiently
  • Inadequate processing of critical material handling data can reduce production efficiency
• Challenges in concentrator plant applications:
  • Costly unplanned downtime
  • Lack of equipment performance indicators tracking makes it difficult to maintain safe and efficient plant operation
  • Poor visibility into incoming ore characteristics can reduce metal recovery

The webinar will discuss how new edge controller technology can help metals and mining operators address these issues through new capabilities in analytics, availability and insights to reduce unplanned downtime and ensure consistent ore quality throughout the process.

In addition, the webinar will introduce a critical new approach to digital transformation. True edge controller technology can provide an affordable, manageable way to enter the world of IIoT one step at a time to quickly realize its benefits. Many companies attempt to tackle big data with expensive, impractical mega-scale projects. Instead, it’s more effective to approach the goals of big data one issue at a time by beginning at the machine edge and identifying one specific problem that can be analyzed and solved simply and affordably. Only true edge technology allows you to do this by accessing, analyzing and historizing data that was previously isolated in machines at the edge. Once plants solve key little data problems, the process can be scaled up to achieve mission-critical production improvements.

Watch the webinar today to gain critical key takeaways including:

• How Emerson true edge control technology enables digital transformation
• How immediate, accurate data at the edge provides deeper analytics and decision-making without interrupting machine control
• How the big data/little data strategy allows easy, immediate process improvements
• Use cases on how Emerson edge control technology helps solve key problems in metals and mining applications

Watch Now! The on-demand recording of the webinar, “Edge Controllers Enable Digital Transformation in the Metals and Mining Industry,” may change how you see machine automation and big data.