The new StruxureWare suite integrates process control, operations management and energy management within the mining, minerals and metals operation to allow customers to gain actionable insight into their entire operation. With the ability to manage and analyze data generated in real-time, customers are able to reduce operation costs and waste and increase safety, while monitoring their energy usage. The software also provides supply chain benefits by optimizing plans and scheduling, identifying risks and deviations, and pinpointing inefficiency.

"Mining, minerals and metals are some of the most energy-intensive industrial processes, making energy efficiency a crucial part of the operation, from both a financial and sustainability standpoint," said Ghassan Barghouth, Country President, Qatar, Kuwait & Bahrain, Schneider Electric . "The StruxureWare for Mining, Minerals and Metals suite is a huge step forward in how we've typically managed operations - making it more efficient from the resource to market"

Reduces energy consumption by 30 percent
The new StruxureWare suite increases energy efficiency by combining energy and production data to allow operations and energy managers to work together to optimize operational demands and energy and water consumption to reduce costs. In addition, it provides visibility into enterprise and supply chain performance and analyzes results over time to identify areas for improvement - maximizing the return on precious resources in the volatile commodity market and increasing overall sustainability.

Maximizes business performance
Additionally, insights gleaned from the software applications increase productivity by as much as 20 percent. The integrated software improves production operations to maximize asset performance. Asset performance gains allow mine production managers to conserve resources from the mine to processing to the end user.

Open and scalable solution
Completely open and scalable, the software expands as an operation grows, reducing total cost of ownership and allowing users to invest effectively in new technology for a competitive advantage. The 'plug and play' design ensures a seamless integration of applications and the open architecture allows StruxureWare applications to work with virtually any software, hardware, or system.

The StruxureWare for Mining, Minerals and Metals suite consists of the following software applications:

· Resource Advisor: tracks and manages the enterprise's energy and carbon costs

· Energy Operation: transforms data into essential energy information and reduces operating cost

· Plant Operation: combines energy and process data to get visibility into asset performance to identify areas for improvement

· Supply Chain Operation: optimizes the supply chain to maximize return on resources

· Power Monitoring Expert: collects and organizes data from the enterprise's electrical network

· PowerSCADA Expert: manages the power network based on telemetry systems that transform data into useful information

· Process Expert: integrates application control and supervision into a single environment

Schneider Electric currently offers StruxureWare for Data Centers, Water, Healthcare and Food & Beverage. Each of these suites contains specific applications to help companies manage and monitor their sustainability initiatives, optimize their current operations and better manage their sites and processes. For more information on Schneider Electric 's StruxureWare for Mining Minerals and Metals suite, please visit: www2.schneider-electric.com/sites/corporate/en/solutions/struxureware/suites/mining-minerals-metals.page