Auvix provided visualization for dispatching offices of Norilsk Nickel

2020: Equipment of AV - the equipment

On July 13, 2020 the Auvix company (Auviks) announced equipment of dispatching mines of Norilsk Nickel of AV - the equipment for monitoring of processes of production and control of safety of employees.

Delivery, installation and commissioning of the equipment of dispatching offices on mines became project tasks

Project objective was equipment by the modern AV equipment of intellectual digital mines – the operational centers allowing to control in real time round the clock the course of mining operations.

Norilsk Nickel adheres to policy of the maximum protection of the personnel and property from possible risks therefore mines of the company are equipped a set of systems for reliable and safe control of a cycle of extraction of ore. One of such systems – dispatching offices on the basis of the latest AV equipment.

Basis of any dispatching office – collective means of information display on which in real time there is a monitoring of all processes. In dispatching office of each mine of Norilsk Nickel three videowalls in format 4х3 to which information on a status of technical means of the mine, fire safety, chemical analysis, process steps of extraction of raw materials is output are located. As a display system videowalls based on modern LCD of the Barco UniSee panels are used. Brightness of panels of 800 cd/m ² allows to see accurately information on the screen regardless of an illumination level indoors. Panels are intended for 24/7 work, life of 100,000 hours.

Opening of the dispatching centers – result of work on digital transformation of Norilsk Nickel, – the deputy head of department of information technologies of Polar branch PJSC Norilsk Nickel MMC Nikolay Koliushko comments. – Using sensors of a system of positioning on videowalls information from all production horizons every second arrives that allows to manage all process in real time.

The solution was selected in connection with existence of a number of technical features:

• the uniformity of the image of 95% – in the conditions of dispatching office when employees look all day at means of information display, this indicator is powerful benefit;
• automatic calibration of the image – also important characteristic, eventually all images on the videowall look is homogeneous, thanks to Barco Sense X technology;
• power supplies are taken out in a server cabinet and equipped with reserve modules that leads to reliability augmentation of the solution and decrease in idle time if the power supply will fail;
• reliability augmentation is also provided by modular structure - if the block of electronics or a panel fails, then replacement can be performed within several minutes (in the presence of the ZIP);
• LCD of the Barco UniSee panel without fans that increases their reliability and excludes noise.

At the enterprises of Norilsk Nickel estimated possibilities of use of the modern AV equipment for implementation of the production purposes, - Mikhail Mosyagin, the business development manager of AUVIX company says about the implemented project. - A problem of any dispatching command – to obtain operational information about all processes, and in case of a non-staff situation quickly to make the right decision on the basis of the analysis of a situation. We provided technical solution which really corresponds to the high level of intellectual digital mines of Norilsk Nickel.