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Weir unveils NEXT Intelligent Solutions digital offering at MINExpo

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Weir’s new digital offering, NEXT™ Intelligent Solutions, extends and expands the OEM’s current capabilities and transforms its process optimisation services into real-time digital solutions, it says.

In recent years, Weir has been focused on harnessing digital technologies to improve equipment performance, availability and product quality – overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). Having recently added artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to its suite of digital solutions through the addition of SentianAI, Weir is now harnessing these technologies to optimise entire circuits and processes, and it is showcasing it at this week’s MINExpo 2024 event in Las Vegas.

Weir has developed digital packages for all of its market- leading solutions – pumps, cyclones, HPGRs, screens and hoses and spools – based around key customer needs: Insight, Uptime and Production.

The Insight package provides provides actionable visibility of system health and performance. It includes:

  • Condition monitoring;
  • Process monitoring;
  • Digital documentation; and
  • Maintenance monitoring.

The Uptime package is focused on extending availability using predictive condition monitoring. It includes:

  • Stage 1 – Optimisation;
    • Wear detection technology
    • Predictive maintenance
  • Stage 2 – Automation
    • Equipment adjustment automation

The Production package empowers users to maximise process efficiency with AI-powered optimisation. It’s a two-stage process:

      • Stage 1 – Process optimisation
      • Stage 2 – Process optimisation automation

Weir says: “Weir knows its market-leading products better than anyone, and when this expertise is combined with the latest in AI capability and the modelling of its proprietary data, it is able to make a real difference to customers. ”

Weir’s ‘all-of-mine’ capabilities on show at MINExpo 2024

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Weir is showcasing its all-of-mine capabilities at this year’s MINExpo 2024, in Las Vegas, this week.

It is launching its ESCO® NEXSYS™ GET Lip System for rope shovel dippers, which lowers lip maintenance requirements, extends tooth and adapter life and, ultimately, provides miners with longer uninterrupted shovel operation.

Weir will also be unveiling its new high-capacity ENDURON® ELITE screen. It’s a double-deck banana screen, available in a range of sizes, the largest of which has a deck measuring 4.3 m x 8.5 m and weighs nearly 50 t. It’s driven by two exciters, whereas competitor machines of comparable size require three.

It will form an integral part of Weir’s commitment to deliver transformational flowsheet solutions in which traditional tumbling mills are replaced by HPGRs and vertical stirred mills, potentially reducing energy consumption by up to 40%.

Weir’s booth will feature the Digital Hub, which will highlight Weir’s digital offering – MOTION METRICS® and Weir’s new digital brand, NEXTTM Intelligent Solutions.

The new MOTION METRICS ShovelMetrics™ Gen 3 Payload monitoring solution is designed to optimise truck loading and improve haulage efficiency by reducing both underloading and overloading. And as part of Weir’s commitment to service its customers even in the most remote locations, MOTION METRICS systems now support connectivity via Starlink, enabling reliable data transmission anywhere in the world.

NEXT™ Intelligent Solutions extend and expand Weir’s current capabilities and transforms its process optimisation services into real-time digital solutions. Weir has developed digital packages for all of its market- leading solutions – pumps, cyclones, HPGRs, screens and hoses and spools – based around key customer needs: Insight, Uptime and Production.

The Digital Hub will use monitors to create a remote operation centre, allowing attendees to experience the same digital platforms and interfaces that Weir utilises to support its customers.

Attendees will also have an opportunity to experience an interactive scale P&H 41000XPC shovel model demonstration of MOTION METRICS ShovelMetrics™ Gen 3, as well as a ShovelMetrics model control station, featuring the same touch screen monitor and controller used by operators.

Weir experts from its digital, extraction, processing, comminution, tailings, and flowsheet solutions teams will be available at the booth to continue the conversation about how Weir is partnering with customers to accelerate sustainable mining.

Jon Stanton, Chief Executive Officer of Weir said: “MINExpo is a wonderful event and a great opportunity to catch up with our customers and colleagues. We’ve been doing a lot of work to expand our portfolio of innovative, end-to-end solutions to help our customers produce the metals and minerals required to transition to a low carbon economy and it’s exciting to be able to show that off at the world’s largest mining show.

“It is clear the world needs more metals and minerals but there is a recognition in the industry that we need to mine them more sustainably than we have in the past. That means using less energy, using water wisely and generating less waste. And Weir – with our world-class engineering, advanced materials science and intelligent automation – is at the forefront of helping miners do that.”