DEVELOPMENT OF A WEB-BASED, ASSET VISUALIZATION AND OPERATIONAL MONITORING TOOL

Abstract

The ERG Science and Engineering Center contributes many projects for their organizations and requires a lot of data from assets, but there is no simplified and easily accessible visualization tool that integrates industrial processes of the transformation of raw materials into finished products for their factories with detailed information. Therefore, the main scope of the project is to visualize and simulate the three-level refinement processes at the Donskoy Mining and Processing Plant (DMPP), as well as to construct a knowledge base tool for each level of the processes. In the current state, the ERG Science and Engineering Center has several types of schematics that they can work with, but they are not interactive and are difficult to use and understand because it takes time to read and go through the industrial processes. Separate diagrams include graphical representations of hardware, process diagrams and general scheme of the process of ore concentration. The main work of the project is to model these processes and combine them into one easily readable diagram, which will be provided to the company for their further work. To complete the project, our team will experiment with model software tools such as Bizagi Modeler, Power BI, Microsoft Visio and employ these tools to build one overall diagram with multiple levels of processes including the data calculated in Excel. Eventually, the following outcomes have been identified and set: 1. Three level modeling of refinement processes in DMPP using Bizagi Modeler; 2. Power BI report as a dashboard that includes dynamic database, MS Visio schemes and analytics of historical data of the plant; 3. MS Excel as a simulation tool with input field to output all data matrices for each process with its subprocesses; 4. A centralized file or a diagram which will serve as a knowledge base tool that connects the visualization and modeling.