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. ”
