Metso Introduces New Predictive Maintenance Solution for the Mining Industry

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ByCraig Resnick
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Metso is expanding its digital Metso Metrics offerings with the launch of a new predictive maintenance solution for mining equipment, designed to help maximize the uptime and performance of comminution circuits.

Metso Metrics is designed to provide global mining customers with improved visibility and new insights into their equipment and processes with analytics, condition monitoring and predictive maintenance, as well as support from Metso.  The combination of technology and experience will bring Metso services closer to customers by helping to improve collaboration, asset reliability and optimization.

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solution is built on the Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Cloud platform, which leverages Microsoft Azure.  It collects data from a large number of sensors in a more secure fashion within Metso equipment that is used to assess process performance, as well as to predict component wear and failure.  Metso performance teams analyze the data with the support of advanced machine learning algorithms to help users better optimize equipment operations and processes.

The new mining solution is the latest addition to Metso’s digital services.  It covers Metso’s primary gyratory crushers, cone crushers and vibrating screens.  In the future, other types of minerals processing equipment, such as mills, will be addressed.  The first generation of Metso Metrics tools were launched in 2017 to help better optimize aggregates production in quarries and at contractor sites.  Metso has also developed a similar solution for waste recycling equipment.

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