Talison Lithium boosts competitiveness and eases knowledge transfer with AVEVA Production Management
Talison Lithium is the largest global supplier of lithium, accounting for nearly one third of the world’s lithium supply. Based in Western Australia, the company was looking to streamline its operating processes, to boost competitiveness and improve collaboration across its ageing workforce.
“AVEVA Production Management enabled us to optimize our entire plant performance. By identifying and analyzing repeated small downtime events, we could build up a clear view of our daily and weekly performance. This enabled us to identify and swiftly resolve longstanding challenges, moving to secure production and boost performance of the whole plant.”
Talison Executive
Goals
- Shift 'institutional knowledge‘ from a handful of team members to an accessible, real-time database
- Achieve ongoing measurement, analysis and reporting of production losses due to equipment utilization
- Automatically capture production stoppages and rate loss events, affecting product output at the plant level
- Provide the capability to perform root-cause analysis, identify process bottlenecks, enable process improvements and improve KPI logging
- Maximise plant uptime
Challenges
- Achieving the appropriate level of automated data capture at the instrumentation and data collection layers
- Standardising the Time Usage Model (TUM), equipment types, cause and effect classification model for the crushing, technical grade and chemical grade plants
- Standardising KPI calculations, enabling consistent calculations across the three plants
Results
- Intuitive end-user experience blends contextual data from plant operators, engineers and metallurgists with historical performance information in a combined interface
- Exposes the process constraints (bottlenecks)
- Provides clear root cause analysis and through moving tags into AVEVA Production Management, the team accelerated analysis process by 50% and improved accuracy using automated digital systems
- AVEVA Production Management reports now form the basis of plant process and maintenance performance KPIs, which are used for daily reporting purposes
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