Mincom, a leading global provider of software solutions and services for asset-intensive industries, has signed an enterprise-wide deal with Cliffs Natural Resources, an international mining and natural resources company. Cliffs will standardise its global mining operations on Mincom Ellipse, a powerful Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solution that helps boost return on assets and workforce performance. Additionally, Cliffs will implement the Mincom Critical Inventory Optimisation (MCIO) analytics solution across the company’s worldwide mining complexes. Fully integrated with Mincom Ellipse, MCIO automatically adjusts inventory levels to ensure the availability of critical parts while reducing inventory costs.
The company has also initiated a field-enablement project using Mincom Mobility, a suite of end-to-end, fully integrated mobile applications that automates field force operations using mobile devices such as laptops, tablets, PDAs, and more. With Mincom’s mobile workforce management solutions, field personnel can perform the right job, with the right resources, wherever they are.
“Cliffs is partnering with Mincom because of its commitment to providing clients with world-class support and state-of-the-art enterprise asset management software that is optimised for the mining industry. The company’s solutions are rooted in its mining heritage, and embed a vast amount of domain expertise. Compared to broader, one-size-fits-all EAM software packages, Mincom’s solutions uniquely support the needs of our mining business,” said Ron Aderhold, Cliffs’ chief information officer. “We are also impressed by Mincom’s vision and execution in the mobile enablement of their solutions – helping ensure that critical asset and work-management processes, using real-time information, can be executed in the field and across any of our remote locations.”
“We’re pleased that a global mining leader such as Cliffs Natural Resources has chosen to standardise its worldwide mining operations on Mincom’s integrated solutions to support critical functions such as asset and work management, and inventory optimisation,” said Greg Clark, CEO of Mincom. “Cliffs has a comprehensive vision for enterprise asset management, which incorporates empowering field workers to optimise productivity and asset performance. Mincom is excited to partner with this industry leader to help them realise this vision.”
Mincom Ellipse is the industry’s most modern and complete Enterprise Asset Management solution designed expressly for industries with asset-intensive operating environments. Mincom Ellipse provides companies in asset-heavy industries – such as mining, defence, energy, public infrastructure and transit – with a fully integrated and mobile-enabled suite of business-critical applications that improves their return on assets and workforce productivity, while also addressing the challenges inherent in remote and geographically dispersed operations that distinguish these industries from corporate-office environments. To date, Mincom’s enterprise solutions have been adopted by 17 of the top 20 mining organisations worldwide.
Cliffs Natural Resources is organised through three geographic business units; The North American business unit is comprised of six iron ore mines owned or managed in Michigan, Minnesota and Canada and six coal mines located in West Virginia and Alabama. The Asia Pacific business unit is comprised of two iron ore mining complexes in Western Australia and a 45% economic interest in a coking and thermal coal mine in Queensland, Australia. The Latin American business unit includes a 30% interest in the Amap project, an iron ore project in Brazil.
Other projects under development include a biomass production plant in Michigan and Ring of Fire chromite properties in Ontario, Canada.