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Industrial Internet

Inside This South African Smelter, Software Is Going Platinum

P D Olson
October 24, 2017
The band Lynyrd Skynyrd has been imploring fans to stop lusting “for the rich man’s gold,” but there’s no way industry will listen.
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Powering the Pilbara—a new market for LNG

April 19, 2017
Three billion litres of diesel fuel imported into the Pilbara each year, primarily to power the mining industry; 5 billion litres of heavy fuel oil annually consumed by ships carrying iron ore from the Pilbara to North Asia. Match these figures with a technological leap in dual-fuel engines, and pressure on carbon and pollutant emissions, and the climate looks right for a revolution in powering Western Australia’s resourceful north.
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How do you make the world’s biggest trucks even better?

September 18, 2016
Between 2012 and 2014 Rio Tinto’s fleet of 58 Komatsu autonomous trucks featuring GE electric propulsion systems drove to the moon and back five times—that is, they travelled almost 4 million kilometres—and moved the equivalent of 3,550 Sydney Harbour Bridges (200 million tonnes of iron ore).
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GE and Rio Tinto: partnering for peak locomotive performance

September 02, 2016
Old world: make, sell, break, fix, make, sell.New world: make, partner, predict, improve.

In an increasingly volatile world, certainty can seem like a bridge too far, but in May 2016 Australian mining company Rio Tinto and GE signed a five-year customer service agreement (CSA) to build mutual assurance around the miner’s rail operation.

The CSA covers the servicing of Rio Tinto’s 196 locomotives—a pure GE fleet—which ply 1,600km of private railway between 15 mines in the famously harsh, hot, red-dirt region of the Pilbara, north Western Australia.
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A digital revolution coming down the freight-rail track

August 08, 2016
Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of coal a day rumbling out of 50 mines, along a network of some 2,700 kilometres of heavy-haul track to three coastal hubs for export. Aurizon’s Central Queensland Coal Network (CQCN) is one of the largest coal rail networks in the world. It carries dozens of trains running mine to port and port to mine—around 85 services daily—aiming to synch with the movements of ships bound for Japan, China, South Korea, India and Taiwan. Now, consider that most of that rail line is single track. Let’s pull over for a moment.
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Where drone meets industry

June 22, 2016
Australia’s natural-gas developers are striving to become ultra-competitive in a challenging global market. For Shell Australia’s newly acquired Queensland Gas Company (QGC), an 18-kilogram unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a 3-metre wingspan represents the kind of collaboration and innovation that the industry needs in order to propel efficiencies to the next order of magnitude. Never before have Beyond Visual Line Of Sight (BVLOS) operations been commercially applied on such a scale.
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Australia’s ambition is catching up with its ability

December 21, 2015
He has just been anointed as one of the nation’s key digital enablers in the Innovation 100 list. In this post for GEreports, Geoff Culbert, President and CEO of GE Australia, New Zealand and PNG, describes his optimism that the Antipodean attitude toward an ideas-based economy is turning around.
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If we could talk to the inanimates … just imagine it!

May 06, 2015
Listen. The machines are talking. And as they communicate with each other (given we’re the ones who’ve designed the Industrial Internet for useful eavesdropping), we tune in and discover innumerable opportunities to improve they way they can work for us. David Parkinson, Regional IT Leader at GE Australia & New Zealand Oil & Gas, is something of a Dr Dolittle with these talking machines—he knows how to learn from their conversations. He explains how we we can engage in this data dialogue, and why we must.
GEreports: What’s the machine conversation starter?
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Future-Proofing Mining

April 15, 2015
Miner problem: billions of dollars invested, lower resource prices, squeezed margins. What would you do? Miners the world over are looking to the future. Yes, they’re streamlining and cutting costs. They’re also centralising knowledge, driving efficiencies in an industry where fractional changes make huge differences across vast operations, and they’re looking for not just new prospects, but the best new prospects. The future for mining is more high-tech and groundbreaking than you’ve ever imagined, and easier on the environment!
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Roy Hill’s new GE locomotives are super strong and super smart

March 26, 2015
More than 70% of the locomotives that are hard at work in Australian mining today were made by GE in the United States. Roy Hill, Western Australia’s brand new, innovation-focussed iron-ore mine, is on schedule to begin shipping ore in September, and will one day have 21 GE EVO AC Heavy Haul locomotives at the heart of its operation. The first 14 have arrived in Port Hedland, where Locomotive 1001, was christened “Ginny” at a celebration on March 23.
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