Mining & Metal

Mining Solutions

When reviewing a client’s process improvement journey, Yokogawa’s principles have always remained the same in ensuring the basics are done well as a first step. This underpins all future activities from new device introduction, control system upgrades all the way up to a holistic revamp of data collection and reporting methods.

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Distributed Control System (DCS)

Plant Resource Manager (PRM)

Mining Production Enhanced

In the mining industry, operations management solutions help to ensure safe, reliable and efficient plant operations and regulatory compliance by digitization of information related to key operations management practices. Is your operation still doing things the old-fashioned way?

Discover how by embracing digital transformation, moving from manual processes and old-fashioned processes to digital solutions that add value, plants inherently become safer, and processes are optimized.

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Conveyor Belt Fire Detection

Power Cable Monitoring for Overheating

Fire Detection in Exhaust Air/Fume Ducts

Distributed Temperature Sensing: DTSX Series

Fiber Optic Sensor Temperature Measurement
Yokogawa’s DTSX product family is engineered with a variety of fiber optic sensing cables that provide continuous temperature sensing for long distances. Our fiber optic sensor temperature measurement solutions provide enhanced visibility into your process, allowing you to detect problems before major catastrophic events occur.

DTSX™1 Fiber Optic Heat Detector

All-in-One, Self-Contained Fiber Optic Temperature Solution
The DTSX1 measures temperature and detects heat with a fiber optic cable over a wide area quickly and precisely. Alarm displays and sounds are individually configurable to suit your applications, enabling rapid detection, localization, and identification of abnormalities to prevent heat-induced equipment failure or catastrophic fire events.

Mining Industry: Solutions for Lifecycle Sustainability of Modern Process Automation Systems

As part of the periodical Asset Health Check Service, Yokogawa's experts analyze environment data and propose a plan for optimizing the environment. This solution can prevent failures caused by deterioration due to the environment. 

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Reduction Monitoring in the Chromium
Wastewater Treatment Process

Off the Grid – Distributed and Greener Energy
Networks are Here

Yokogawa RAP Control of Work:
Safe and Reliable Operations

Recorder and Analytical Solution

Liquid Analyzers and Recorders for Reducing Total Cost of Ownership
Yokogawa has provided a wide range of liquid analyzers and recorders with high-quality, accurate and reliable products. All of these products are designed to give you maximum accuracy, stability, safety, and reliability, with the objective of reducing your total cost of ownership.

Energy Management Information System (EMIS)

Decrease Energy Consumption, Monitor Performance and Determine Optimum Operating Targets 
Helping enterprise to reduce energy costs and improve process performance without extensive and expensive equipment modifications. Under the digital transformation era, the energy management footprint of the evolutions, the technological borders, and application frameworks are widely adopted to create corporate visibility and value addition.

RAP4 Digital Permit to Work

Layers of Safety for All Industries, All scales, and All Risks 
Permit to Work is your front-line documented method of keeping people safe whilst undertaking any form of work that needs to be controlled in potentially hazardous environments. The most effective Permit to Work system needs to engage the workforce and keep them focused on the important issues that keep people safe. That system is RAP4.

Mining Industry: The Total Insight concept supports the entire product life cycle.

Yokogawa's flowmeter adopts the new "Total Insight" concept which provides total support to customers. Smarter more accurate measurement devices with less need for physical contact are in demand. That is why Yokogawa has co-innovated with the food & beverage industry to develop flowmeters that exceed customer expectations. Discover how other customers use our magnetic and Coriolis flowmeters in their operations. 

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Flow Measurement for Aluminum Slurry

Flow Noise Diagnosis Function

Measuring the Impossible

Flow Meters - Magnetic 

Mining Industry: Start Your Digital Transformation Journey and Simplify Compliance

Plant managers are amidst a fast-changing business environment. Trends of Industry 4.0, advanced technologies of Industrial IoT (IIoT) & artificial intelligence(AI), and the rise of the energy-saving society and aging population have huge impacts on production activities. Under this situation, they must consider how to improve productivity and safety, train and sustain experienced operators, and cut operation costs all at the same time. 

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Wireless Solution for IIoT

Wireless Vibration Sensor

Wireless Temperature Monitoring

IIoT Plant Asset Management

Sushi Sensors and GA10 AI Software
Upgrade from periodic operator rounds to automated data collection and analysis for rotating equipment in food and beverage facilities. Monitor vibration of rotating equipment like compressors and pumps to get real-time equipment health status, detect abnormal conditions sooner, predict failures, and schedule maintenance to reduce downtime.

In the mining industry, reliable measurements are critical for any control scheme, new or old. But as industries strive to improve control of processes, the quality of measurement-loops is often overlooked! No matter how good your DCS, PLC, SCADA, or cloud-based data collection is, if you do not have accurate reliable process data, it does not matter.

Discover how accurately measuring pressure is a powerful piece of process data.

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Pressure and Level Transmitters

Optimize Plant Operations with Fewer Resources than Ever Before
Yokogawa pressure transmitters do more than just provide accurate and reliable data for process control. DPharp pressure instrumentation helps achieve enhanced product quality, reduced total cost of ownership, and increased plant availability. Engineered with DPharp pressure sensor technology, our pressure transmitters deliver high reliability across a range of process conditions, eliminating numerous application challenges.

Yokogawa’s best-in-class digital smart sensors perfect for the mining industry 

Envision a mining operation where people are watchful and attentive while your process responds to change quickly and efficiently. Seeing clearly gives you the knowledge necessary to anticipate the changes required in your process. Knowing in advance brings you the speed and flexibility to optimize your operation in real time. Yokogawa analyzers are the heart of the control- and optimization process. With their robustness and accuracy, the analyzers must and will give you confidence in getting the critical process information to the operators and control systems.

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pH in Iron Slurry

pH in Iron Ore Slurry + NaOH Solution

Measurement of pH of Leachate in Zinc Hydrometallurgy

Process Analyzers

pH | ORP | Conductivity | Gas/Dissolved Oxygen
Yokogawa’s diagnostic-based analytical instrumentation offers the flexibility to meet a wide range of individual requirements. Producing the best quality food and beverage products requires precise monitoring and control of pH, ORP, conductivity, and gas/dissolved oxygen levels throughout the process.

Gas Analytical Solutions 

Improving the operation, reliability, and credibility of online process analyzers
This Oxygen concentration and humidity measurements are used in various applications, from crucial humidity control measurements for final product quality to oxygen measurements on package boilers for combustion control. Yokogawa's zirconia gas analyzer solution is equipped with a long-life, and highly reliable zirconia sensor with digital communication and data log functions.

It is easy to maintain and reduce operating costs by self-diagnosing sensor deterioration (without using calibration gas)and replacing the heater assembly on site.