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Seeking to Reduce Process Time and Ensure Even More Efficiency in Final Results, Samarco Continues Investing in Technology and Now Has a Robot for the Iron Ore Pelletization Process in Its Operations.
On last Wednesday, (07/20), the mining company Samarco shared some of its news regarding production processes in the segment and announced that it has been using a robot for the iron ore pelletization process since June at Plant 4 of the Ubu Complex, located in Anchieta, Espírito Santo. Thus, the company continues adopting technology to ensure greater efficiency in its production results and optimize the time spent in the process.
Iron Ore Pelletization Process at Samarco’s Plant in Espírito Santo Uses Robot to Optimize Time and Ensure Greater Efficiency
Although it is one of the largest sectors of the Brazilian economy, mining is still a technologically underdeveloped segment, and in recent years, several large companies such as Vale and Samarco have been investing in technology in their operations. Now, Samarco has announced that it is using a robot in the iron ore pelletization process at its Ubu Complex plant located in the state of Espírito Santo.
The company recently announced that it has been adopting the technology since June of this year and is seeing significant results in process optimization. The stage that involves the help of the robot is the measurement of moisture in fine iron ore, and the mining company stated that the process has brought agility and efficiency to the moisture measurement process, reducing the delivery time of the result to the control room by one hour and thirty minutes.
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Therefore, what was previously done in hours and required great effort from the team is now completed in just thirty minutes.
“The robot collects the sample of fine iron ore — the pellet feed — weighs the wet material, and takes the sample to the infrared dryer. At the end of the drying process, the robot retrieves the sample and places it on the scale for a new weighing, now of the dry weight. Then, the plant’s control system, which orchestrates all the equipment in the robotic cell, calculates the moisture based on the weight difference,” commented Samarco’s automation engineer, Luciano Rocha.
Mining Company Begins to Reap the Results of Technology Investments at Its Espírito Santo Plant with Optimization of Iron Ore Pelletization
The use of technology in the production processes of mining not only ensures greater efficiency in results but also more speed and agility in the production chain. This is the main highlight of the use of Samarco’s robot in iron ore pelletization, as the company emphasized that the technology has been strongly contributing to optimize the process.
In addition, Luciano Rocha highlighted that there is also the benefit of greater repeatability and maximum reproducibility of moisture results, as the influence of different operators is null. In this way, the Filtering Control Room team can achieve a result with higher quality and in less time.
Finally, Samarco highlighted that the use of technology in the iron ore pelletization process has also contributed to more information for the advanced control system at this stage of the pellet production process in Ubu. The entire partnership for creating and applying the robot in Samarco’s production process was conducted in conjunction with Robotics, and the mining company intends to continue its investments in the segment.
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