IVS Joint Venture, Saint-Petersburg, Russia:

A. A. Ershov, Deputy Head of a sector of Automatic Control System Department, Candidate of Engineering
Sciences, A_Ershov@rivs.ru
E. A. Isaev, Head of a sector of Automatic Control System Department

As the tool of enhancing efficiency of mining and processing flow control, the article addresses the automatic systems belonging in the class of Advanced Process Control (APC). A brief description and examples of products are given for the actually applied APC techniques and technologies in mining and processing, functions of application software Klever developed by RIVS are presented, and potential efficiency of this product introduction is estimated. The implementation of Klever software makes it possible to maintain qualitative and quantitative indexes of performance of a processing plant and to minimize human factor impact in the production control. As a result, economic efficiency of mining and processing enhances due to more complete extraction of metals and owing to optimized cost of processing plant personnel.

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