Areas of interest
The Symposium will include developments and innovations in automation related to the mining, mineral and metal industry. This will include among other;
- Measurement and instrumentation
- Data mining and multivariate statistical analysis
- Fault diagnosis and process monitoring
- Process modelling, control and optimisation
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning systems
- Advanced process control
- Robotics, mechatronics and teleoperation
- Data reconciliation and metallurgical accounting
- Maintenance scheduling and product planning
Applications
- Mine unit operations
- Mineral processing
- Pyrometallurgy
- Blast furnaces and smelters
- Electrorefining
- Steel making and continuous casting
- Hot/cold rolling
- Environmental recycling
- Liquid and solid waste treatment
- Forming of metal and metallic materials
- Hydrometallurgy