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South Africa: Inside this South African Smelter, Software is Going Platinum
GE Africa, 25 October 2017
The band Lynyrd Skynyrd may implore fans to stop lusting "for the rich man's gold," but there's no way industry will listen. Read more »
GE Africa (Lagos)
South African Platinum Mine Improves Output by Going Digital
Demand for platinum has been growing because of a long list of evolving industrial applications. Extracting platinum is such an expensive and time-consuming process, that platimum mines like Lonmin in South Africa--where 70 percent of the world's platinum is produced--have turned to GE's Digital Mine, a smelter software application, for a digital solution. Read more. More about GE in Africa in this BRIEFING.
Lonmin platinum-mining company in South Africa has been using GE software for a decade to boost its efficiency. Now, it’s adding a new app, called Operations Performance Management, which uses real-time and historical data to help Lonmin make better-informed operational decisions and help troubleshoot and prevent issues with its assets.
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Lonmin Plc, about an hour's drive from Pretoria, South Africa, is the world's third-largest platinum producer. Against the challenging backdrop of volatile commodity prices, the ... Read more »
