From left to right: Reece Canham, Michael Wortley & Walter Valery
Metso has won the 2010 Queensland iAward in the Industrial Application category and is now a finalist for the Australian National Innovation Award. Metso SmartTagTM: Ore Tracking from Mines to Ports bagged the award competing alongside world leading edge technologies.
SmartTagTM is an innovative system for marking and tracking ores from mines (surface or underground) to processing plants and through subsequent storage, transportation and further transformation processes.
The system was developed by Metso's Process Technology and Innovation business unit (PTI) located in Brisbane, Australia. Marking and tracking ores through the mining processes enables spatially based ore characteristics in the mine such as ore hardness, fragmentation and mineral content to be linked with time based performance in the processing plants.
Measurement using SmartTagTM then allows operating parameters and control strategies in the mine and processing plant to be adjusted and optimized, thereby reducing costs and increasing profitability.
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Metso PTI are currently extending application of the SmartTagTM system to mark and track ore from mines through ports to final destinations offshore, allowing not only optimization of the mining process, but also monitoring and optimization of the transport logistics to final consumers, such as iron and steel producers in the cases of iron ore and coal.
The award is one of the most important in Australia's technology industry. The iAward is a highly regarded technology innovation awards program, which has been hosted by the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) for the past 16 years.
The AIIA represents Australia's information and communications technology industry, which generates annual revenues of around US$ 40 billion.
Metso Sr VP for Process Technology and Innovation, Dr Walter Valery, commended the team involved in the development and commercialization of SmartTagTM.
"This award is a great recognition of our continuous effort to provide technological solutions and services to our customers in the mining and construction industries in Australia and globally. The combination of specialised skills and motivation of our team, together with the proximity with our customers through our consulting services, allows us to successfully develop and apply our systems and techniques," he stated.
If Metso also wins in the Australian National Innovation Award, it will join the select ranks of companies that will participate in the Asia-Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA), an awards program that recognizes technological innovations throughout Southeast Asia, China and Oceania.
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